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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sunbird, post: 8281001, member: 116324&quot;]No money in forging pennies, at least not from the correct metals. The melt value of a modern zinc penny is one cent now, while dimes take 2.8 cents worth of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>For things like parking meters and common vending machines, a smart forger would likely go with zinc, and maybe roll bond aluminum foil over it to keep it from reacting too much with oxygen. Since coins are missing over 20% of the volume of a perfect cylinder or blank of the same diameter and max thickness, you could hit the right weight with zinc even though it&#039;s lighter than copper and nickel – just make full cylinders without all the scooped out, recessed fields of coins. I heard that people scammed parking meters with steel slugs, but it&#039;s hard to believe meters are that primitive. Zinc slugs of the correct weight would probably work everywhere since zinc isn&#039;t magnetic (I heard laundromats pick up on the magnetism of steel slugs, so I&#039;m not sure why meters don&#039;t).</p><p><br /></p><p>Lead cores clad with aluminum or zinc would work too – just compute the right proportions to hit the correct weight. All this seems ridiculous though, such an incredible waste of time to forge 25 cent coins in the 21st century, but if you&#039;re going to do something, do it right I guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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