Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p ""Confusion" is a bizarre word here: machines are fooled, not confused, and there is no reason that the introduction of machines should confuse people about coins! The coin would become problematic for 19th-cent'y machines bcz of *fraud*, but addressing this by ceasing issuance of the 3¢ would not protect vending machine operators from up to $770,000 of fraud against dime machines, which was not then, uh, chump change for a nascent industry."@en }
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- Three-cent_piece_(United_States_coin) reason ""Confusion" is a bizarre word here: machines are fooled, not confused, and there is no reason that the introduction of machines should confuse people about coins! The coin would become problematic for 19th-cent'y machines bcz of *fraud*, but addressing this by ceasing issuance of the 3¢ would not protect vending machine operators from up to $770,000 of fraud against dime machines, which was not then, uh, chump change for a nascent industry.".