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Message:: [QUOTE="Mountain Man, post: 24549975, member: 94733"][USER=146176]@Janice T[/USER], you need to understand that the "steel" cents were only produced for one year, during WW II, so millions were saved, thinking that they would be worth more than face in the future, like my grandfather did. As such, there are companies that made money by collecting, cleaning, and then re-coating them in zinc, and selling them for a profit. They were more souvenirs than collectibles. If you remove your coin from the album, and carefully examine the edge (rim) of the coin, it should be dull. If it is shining, like the obverse and reverse, then it was reprocessed and worth maybe 3¢ to a nickel, but there are so many out there (I have over 800 of them, as I inherited my grandfather's collection) that they just never increased in value or became collectible. I give them away to young collectors, in my beginner's kit.[/QUOTE]