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We tried steel pennies during the war, and they were highly unpopular -- once the zinc coating wore off they rusted badly and didn't work well in vending machines. Maybe we should just push the boat all the way out and adopt plastic coins --
I'm sure there's a nice factory in China where they'd make them for us.
Yes, we did indeed. Perhaps we can coat them with nickel this time. As it is today, we have zinc core pennies with a copper coating on them. Kind of the opposite of how it was when this was made:
I know I can literally bend pennies in half nowadays because they are so soft. :eusa_doh:
Plastics. Sounds like a line fom The Graduate.