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The Chemistry of Money
By
Brian Rohrig
Brian Rohrig
Oldenburg Academy, Indiana, USA
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-78262-983-2
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83916-848-2
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-78801-711-4
Special Collection:
RSC Popular Science eBook Collection
Product Type:
Popular Science
No. of Pages:
352
Publication date:
26 Oct 2020
Book Chapter
Chapter 3: The Changing Face of Our Coins
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Published:26 Oct 2020
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
99 - 150
Citation
The Chemistry of Money, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020, ch. 3, pp. 99-150.
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A look at recent changes in coinage, with an examination of why silver and gold are seldom used today, and a look at how the American penny underwent a dramatic change in 1982 from copper to zinc.
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