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<p>[QUOTE="omahaorange, post: 1510167, member: 28199"]This is correct, as are the other answers regarding years and mint marks (from 1944 to the end of the war). The steel cent was originally made to free up copper for shell casings. However, that coin was so unpopular with the public that in 1944 the mint turned to used shell casings for copper. </p><p><br /></p><p>Same with the war nickel. Nickel was used for the armor plating on tanks. So they changed the alloy in nickels to include the silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="omahaorange, post: 1510167, member: 28199"]This is correct, as are the other answers regarding years and mint marks (from 1944 to the end of the war). The steel cent was originally made to free up copper for shell casings. However, that coin was so unpopular with the public that in 1944 the mint turned to used shell casings for copper. Same with the war nickel. Nickel was used for the armor plating on tanks. So they changed the alloy in nickels to include the silver.[/QUOTE]
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