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Oh, dude, the US mint started adding copper to coins in 1793. Yeah, like way back when George Washington was probably like, "Hey, let's make our coins a little more blingy with some copper." So, yeah, 1793, when the US was just a baby country trying to figure out its fashion sense in the coin world.

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