List of 28 Chemical Elements Used (alone or In Alloys) in Coins and Medals
Some have been used only in private demos. Very common coin metals elements are uncommented.
- Aluminium
- Antimony (Used as alloy agent in one Chinese coin of 1931. Used in medallion medal alloy)
- Carbon (In all steel and iron coins. A few "coal" coins minted in the hyperinflation in post WW I Germany)
- Chromium (Used for plating coins and in some rare hard stainless steel coins)
- Cobalt (Used in medals. A coin in Camaroon is said to be struck in cobalt)
- Copper
- Gold
- Hafnium (Fred Zinkann demo coin)
- Iron
- Lead
- Magnesium (Magnesium-aluminum coins are used in India)
- Manganese (Some Mn used in U.S. wartime "silver nickels" and the new US dollar coin for similar reasons—attempts to match magnetic and electrical properties of previous nickels, and previous Susan B. Anthony dollars, for vending machines)
- Molybdenum (Demo coin - Fred Zinkann)
- Nickel
- Niobium (Austria has issued a number of bimetallic 25 euro coins with a niobium center)
- Palladium (½ Hau from Tonga (98%) and some bullion coins)
- Platinum
- Rhenium (Demo coin - Fred Zinkann)
- Ruthenium (1967 ½ Hau from Tonga was 98% palladium and 2% ruthenium)
- Selenium (Alloy medal only, to commemorate Berzelius, discoverer of the element)
- Silver
- Tantalum (Used in a bimetallic silver-tantalum coin from Kazakhstan)
- Tellurium (Hungarian alloy medal only)
- Tin
- Titanium (Austria has made bimetallic commemorative coins of silver and titanium)
- Tungsten (Alloys are too hard. A few private demos struck only for experimentation)
- Uranium (German medal only )
- Vanadium (Experimental private token demo struck, but generally considered too toxic)
- Zinc
- Zirconium (Experimental private token demo struck)
See comprehensive list of elements and alloys in the link below:
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