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To: DogByte6RER

Was there another penny made form a whiteish or gray metal? I could swear I had one once.


38 posted on 04/09/2014 9:28:40 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: luvbach1
Was there another penny made form a whiteish or gray metal? I could swear I had one once.

They ran out of copper during WWII and issued steel pennies in 1943.

There were some copper 1943 pennies that are now worth a lot of money.

44 posted on 04/09/2014 9:33:23 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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1943 pennies were made from zinc. The copper was needed for the war effort.


53 posted on 04/09/2014 10:16:33 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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