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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 787123, member: 4552&quot;]Sure hate to drag this one out but to Quote a Dr. Sol TAylor of The Signal, and who knows if he really knows anything, he stated:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The mints requested that spent military shell casings, mostly naval ordnance, be recycled and used for coinage, since the shell casings were also made of a brass alloy like the cent. In 1944 and 1945, the mints produced billions of the shell-case cents which, at a glance, looked just like the pre-war bronze cents. However, many had colorful greenish and yellowish streaks, or even thin black lines.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Later analysis showed that the ingredients in the explosives, such as phosphorus and manganese — even in minuscule traces — can discolor the alloy. Even today, most &quot;brilliant uncirculated&quot; specimens of 1944 and 1945 cents show these colors. By 1946, the mints returned to commercial bronze strips for coining cents.</p><p>Had to edit this since I just found this from the Coin Resource Web Site:</p><p>Quote: </p><p>&quot;All of the materials used for producing our coins are purchased from commercial manufacturers. The United States Mint obtains one-cent coin blanks already made, but produces the blanks for five-cent coins and the cupronickel clad coins from strip. Coin strip is fed into high-speed automatic presses which cut the coin blanks, known as planchets. &quot;Unquote I guess. </p><p>This would further indicate that the Mint really has no idea of what our Cents are made of exactly. Although as with any organization, someone gives them statistics&nbsp; of what they require. HOWEVER, even in the production of steel beams and columns for buildings, there is what is called a tolerance in production materials and the exact statistics. Further indicating no one on Earth really knows what is in our coins. HMMMM.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure is lots of contradicory information about out PENNIES. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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