You can test it yourself by melting a penny and exposing the zinc to a magnet. Pennies made after 1982 should contain zinc with a thin layer of copper. As copper is not magnetic, you can conduct this experiment by focusing on zinc. ...
These zinc-coated steel planchets represented an efficient and affordable way to make the 1943 pennies while rationing copper for the war effort. The diameter remained 19.05 mm and the portrait of Abraham Lincoln stayed the same. However, many in the public were less than thrilled with the ...
1943: Steel pennies Steve Lovegrove // Shutterstock 1943: Steel pennies Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring, the U.S. Mint used steel and zinc to create pennies until 1944. Se...
How many 1943 copper pennies have been found? “Approximately 40 1943 copper–alloy centsare known to remain in existence. Coin experts speculate that they were struck by accident when copper–alloy 1–cent blanks remained in the press hopper when production began on the new steel pennies.” Sh...
1943: Steel pennies Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring, the U.S. Mint used steel and zinc to create pennies until 1944. Several silver 1944 pennies and copper 1943 pennies we...
Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring,the U.S. Mint used steel and zincto create pennies until 1944. Several silver 1944 pennies and copper 1943 pennies were made in error; some...
1943: Steel pennies Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring, the U.S. Mint used steel and zinc to create pennies until 1944. Several silver 1944 pennies and copper 1943 pennies we...
1943: Steel pennies Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring, the U.S. Mint used steel and zinc to create pennies until 1944. Several silver 1944 pennies and copper 1943 pennies we...
1943: Steel pennies Steve Lovegrove // Shutterstock 1943: Steel pennies Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring, the U.S. Mint used steel and zinc to create pennies until 1944. Se...
1943: Steel pennies Steve Lovegrove // Shutterstock 1943: Steel pennies Copper was critical to the American war effort during World War II. In order to ensure as much copper as possible could be used for equipment wiring, the U.S. Mint used steel and zinc to create pennies until 1944. Se...