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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drago the Wolf, post: 1282858, member: 22476&quot;]Okay, so far I&#039;ve heard two rumors:</p><p><br /></p><p>Rumor #1: Someone on the Google Group Newsgroup rec.collecting.coins said years ago, that, for years after the war, the steel cents were culled from circulation, sealed in 55 gallon steel drums and tossed into the ocean (Supposedly it was not worth recovering the steel because of the zinc plating?) This would be a stupid thing to do, because the government would know, or should have known many people would want and pay money from the steelies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rumor #2 heard here on Coin Talk: Someone said that the steel cents were culled from circulation and given to a steel mill that was allowed to have them, as long as they melted them down, to use for other steel products. A much better choice to get rid of them in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, can anyone here verify these rumors of which one is true, or if there are any other rumors? Could the government have a fairly large amount of of steelies in a vault somewhere for a purpose?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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