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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kibenella coins, post: 1984080, member: 71897&quot;]I occasionally buy bags of pennies from my local bank and run them through a ryedale machine to separate the copper cents from the zinc ones and I noticed a lot of wheat cents were showing up in the non copper bucket. No matter how many times I ran them through they were still being rejected because they didn&#039;t contain enough copper compared to the cent in the comparator. I took the rejected cents to a friend who owns a cash for gold store and has an electronic gun that can tell you all the metals present in any object. He tested my cents and they contained copper, zinc, tin and even a slight trace of lead. I forgot the % of each metal present but I remember there being a lot less copper present then in other wheat cents which is why my machine rejected it. It made me wonder what they were melting down to make pennies back then for lead to show up. Do you think lead was present in the casings or maybe left over from the slugs themselves?&nbsp; Either way don&#039;t put your wheat cents in your mouth![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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