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by kakwa_ 2737 days ago
Another thing I found amusing about war time (WWI and WWII) coins: to save precious metal, they were made of cheap alloys.

You almost have the feeling there are made of cardboard and that you could snap them in two.

But I guess they didn't finish as most dead coins: so worthless that getting a bag of them and selling it as scrap metal would actually earn you money ^^.