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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lon Chaney, post: 24609010, member: 29844&quot;]The BBC article says this:</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The coins, which are made from pure copper, pre-date 1943, when the US began using other metals to make the one cent coin due to World War Two shortages. Pennies are now made primarily from zinc.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>To me, that just seems like half-a** research about when US coins changed composition.</p><p>It would be a weird year to stop saving cents. No post-43 wheaties for what reason?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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