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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 14221253, member: 74863&quot;]I just did a quick check and rounded the figures. From 1941 to 1981 just over 95 billion copper cents were minted. From 1983 to 2006 a little over 260 billion zinc cents were minted. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I’m missing the first 32 years of Lincoln Cents but the mintages are low. And I didn’t add the last 16 years of high zinc cents mintages. </p><p><br /></p><p>In a 40 year period of copper cents and a 23 year period of zinc cents there is a large spread of 165 billion more zinc cents minted than copper. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can add in the first 32 years of copper cents and the last 15 years of zinc cents but the spread only grows. Zinc Cents are being produced at an alarming rate as compared to copper cents. 17 years less production and 165 more is more than I care to think about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, copper cents are becoming more difficult to find in circulation and one day a copper cent that’s circulating will be like finding a Wheat Ear Cent today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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