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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WoodenSpoon Boy, post: 165381, member: 6537&quot;]I had nothing to do the other day so I decided to play around with heat and coins. I wanted to see if I could tone some fairly new dimes,pennies,nickels, and quarters. The dime and quarter did some interesting color changes and the nickel just turned black:whistle: the penny simply melted into an ugly ball of metal. </p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it was sad that the pennies that are made today are pethetic pieces of zinc that wouldent last in the ground for more than 5 years never mind surviving my oven. (pretty agravating to future metal detectors).</p><p><br /></p><p>So I wondered why the government decided to use zinc instead of other alternatives in 1982. I cant think of a logical reason to use it besides it being cheaper to produce.I think we would have been better off with steel , zinc plated pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>opinions please:hail:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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