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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 2987649, member: 78298&quot;]Now as to the 1943 steel and 1944 copper, these are both very common.</p><p>In 1944-1946 they say that the cents were &quot;shell case cents&quot;. At first I thought that meant these were from spent bullets from WW2, but that war was not fought&nbsp; in the US, so we were not scrounging around battlefields picking up used bullets. Then I read that it was from spent shell casings from domestic gun ranges.</p><p>Some people say the coins were not made from this, and others say they were.</p><p>I have no doubts that these were collected, as they were recycling everything during WW2, rubber, paper, metal etc. Were there enough shell casings to mint 5 billion cents in 1944-1946? I doubt it. It would take 42 million troy pounds (after refining) to make 5 billion cents.</p><p>Although my experience with the 1945&#039;s are that they tone differently from other cents, so perhaps their composition/alloy IS different.</p><p>Red Book says:</p><p>1909-1942 - 0.950 copper, 0.050 tin and zinc</p><p>1944-1946 - 0.950 copper, 0.050 zinc</p><p>1947-1958 - 0.950 copper, 0.050 tin and zinc</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought there was manganese or something else in there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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