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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 126867, member: 66&quot;]Check your Redbook again.&nbsp; They resumed the pre-war composition in 1947 with 5% tin and zinc.&nbsp; The law did allow them some leeway on the exact mix of tin and zinc so they gradually reduced the tin content down to 1% tin.&nbsp; The copper, tin, zinc alloy was used through 1962.&nbsp; In 1963 they removed the last of the tin.&nbsp; So the first four years of the memorial cent did have tin in them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Aluminum might still be a possibility.&nbsp; At the current price an aluminum cent of the same size as our current cent would contain .33 cents worth of metal.&nbsp; that would allow .67 cents for fabrication costs.&nbsp; And if the fabrication cost are that high they would have had to have stopped coining cents a long time ago because it would have cost almost two cents to make one cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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