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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 3534751, member: 15199&quot;]The photo has the appearance of a mix variation of the metal. Since 1944 was the year that &quot; theoretically&quot; the government melted copper shell casings for the coins. If true, some may not had been as cleaned as others so scavenged for use and caused such. But many dispute this as hearsay and that it was for patriotic reasons. </p><p><br /></p><p>from Wiki.</p><p>In December 1943, the Treasury Department announced that the steel cent would be discontinued after 1943, to be replaced with coins containing 95% copper and 5% zinc (pre-1943 cents contained the same percentage of copper but might also contain tin in place of some of the zinc). The Treasury also stated that some of the metal for the new coins would be obtained by melting down small arms ammunition shells.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowers200836–37-48" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowers200836–37-48" rel="nofollow">[47]</a> However, numismatic writer Shane Anderson, in his study of the Lincoln cent, doubts that any shells were melted down, except perhaps ceremonially.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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