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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 168371, member: 669&quot;]Okay, I&#039;ll bite.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been around for 74 years, and I not only don&#039;t <u>understand</u>&nbsp; why &quot;they made lead pennys&quot;, but I didn&#039;t even <u>know</u> they had! <img src="http://www.cointalk.org/images/smilies/eek.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only time I ever head of lead pennies was the time I saw an EBay auction for some WWII steel cents misidentified that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Lead nickles&quot;, actually nickle-sized slugs,&nbsp; on the other hand, were common in my teenage years - they were used in juke boxes and cigarette machines, before sophisticated counterfeit detection was developed for vending machines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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