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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 168876, member: 112&quot;]As I said, I aint always right. The following is from an article in <i>Coin World</i>, this is what I was remembering - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; When 1944 began, the Mint abandoned the zinc-coated steel composition and reintroduced the 95 percent copper, 5 percent zinc alloy used for a time in 1942. The government began recycling spent brass cartridge casings from the war for use in making the cents of 1944 to 1946. For years, collectors called these &quot;shell-case cents.&quot; The amount of copper needed for the cent coinage far outstripped the supply of shell casings and had to be supplanted by additional copper. Lange suggests that the use of the shell casings had more use as propaganda and morale boosting than any practical purpose. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In a second article on the subject - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Some of the copper for these wartime alloy cents came from used ammunition shell cases, which were made of 70 percent copper, according to Lange. The shell cases were not the only source of copper for cents, according to Lange, who notes the supplies of spent munitions would have been insufficient to meet coinage demand. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The first article can be found - <a href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/032006/bw_0320.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/032006/bw_0320.asp" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>&nbsp; - on <i>Coin World&#039;s</i> web site, and the second article - <a href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/103006/BW_1030.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/103006/BW_1030.asp" rel="nofollow">HERE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see from the articles, it was the govt. itself that was recycling the spent shell casings in order to recover the copper. Some of that copper was used by the US Mint for coinage. But it was not the only source of copper for coins. So while I was mistaken in my comments, so is the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hate it when that happens <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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