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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 3034961, member: 33176&quot;]People are notoriously lax in their verbal skills.&nbsp; We say penny when we mean cent, and we say copper when we mean brass or bronze.&nbsp; Both brass and bronze are primarily copper, so we can be forgiven for referring to a coin that is 95% copper as copper instead of brass.&nbsp; The primary difference in brass and bronze is that brass is an alloy of copper and zinc while bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.&nbsp; Lincoln cents prior to 1982 are 95% copper and 5% zinc, which would classify it as brass, except that brass usually has a higher percentage of zinc.&nbsp; Bronze is a harder alloy and will wear better.&nbsp; Take a look at this... <a href="https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/difference-between-copper-brass-bronze/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/difference-between-copper-brass-bronze/" rel="nofollow">https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/difference-between-copper-brass-bronze/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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