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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PamR, post: 24869468, member: 119754&quot;]I have one set of these that were gifted to me but as I opened a roll, standing out like a sore thumb lol. A fun surprise. I had forgotten I had two from dad’s before plating. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1943 Lincoln Wheat Cents look like &quot;silver pennies&quot; but they are actually made out of steel. During World War, The US needed to allocate as much copper as possible for the war effort and this included copper used for minting Lincoln Cents at the US Mint. Zinc-coated steel was used as the substitute metal composition and hence the new silver-like coin is known as the wartime steel cent or steel penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1595731[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1595732[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1595733[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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