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Message:: [QUOTE="JCro57, post: 3053909, member: 92083"]By 1943, the Allies were very confident they were going to win against Hitler and Mussolini. And after the Battles of Guadalcanal and Midway, they were also very confident they would defeat the Japanese as the Japs would continue to retreat (plus they were developing the atom bomb as an option to not have to invade Japan).  Thus, the need for copper was a bit overstated and we actually would have been fine if the steel cents were never made. One concern for the government was that they would be minting copper cents that would possibly be worth more than 1 cent in metallic value and the public would be melting them en masse for scrap value. They knew early on they wouldn't need to keep making the steelies.[/QUOTE]