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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
I'm glad to see we're on the Nickel standard.

Back about 20-30 years ago, this problem came up with pennies. They changed the ratio of copper-zinc from 90/10 to 10/90
They took the copper out of pennies in 1982. (It was actually a copper-zinc ratio of 95/5; today's pennies are 2.5/97.5.

You can still find plenty of pre-1982 pennies -- which has now caused me to change my plans. I'm going to convert all my assets into pre-1982 pennies and instantly double my net worth!

(I just told my wife about my new plan and she still isn't impressed -- some people just don't understand "genius.")
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