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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 177700, member: 1101&quot;]I agree.&nbsp; This is what I understood.&nbsp; It is a myth, as far as I know, that they simply melted down shell casings and made cents from them.&nbsp; It was the alloy used that mirrored shell casing metal (aka Brass) that gives the cents their name.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if they recycled some brass casings, they likely smelted out the copper and then made the alloy.&nbsp; Or, they could have tossed some shell cases into the melting pot, I suppose.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, if I remember my history correctly, WWII occurred in Europe and the Pacific, not in the US.&nbsp; I seriously doubt that the govt was paying to ship spent cartridge cases back to the US.&nbsp; Ones used for training here in the US would have been a drop in the bucket, I think, compared to what was needed for coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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