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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 436269, member: 66&quot;]Not for circulation.&nbsp; The law that provided for the four commemorative cents next year allows, but does not mandate, the use of the 95% copper 5% tin &amp; zinc for cents struck for numismatic purposes.&nbsp; That means the copper sets would only be in. potentially, mint sets, proof sets, and any other special sets the mint decides to create for the collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The circulation cents will be what ever the regular composition is.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t make any changes between now and the end of the year they will be copper plated zinc.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they do go to steel cents they WON&#039;T be like the ones from 1943.&nbsp; They will be copper plated steel not zinc plated.&nbsp; Copper plated aluminum is also a possibility.&nbsp; The steel has the advantage that it would be almost exactly the weight of the current cent.&nbsp; The aluminum has the advantage of being low density and about twice as many cents can be struck from the same weight of metal as steel or zinc.&nbsp; This makes the aluminum cents much cheaper even though aluminum costs more than steel or zinc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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