Coining it

Coins spilling from a jar

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Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry

Nearly every day we spend money. In the UK we have not had gold coins (sovereigns) since 1914 and coins containing silver disappeared in 1947, but do we still have copper coins? 

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