steel pennies

you know how there used to be steel pennies, what happend to them?

 

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the steel pennies were ONLY made in the year 1943 to save material for the war effort during WWII. These pennies were lapped up by many people as a peculiority or as an "investment" These pennies have a premium over other wheat cents from the same time period. Mr. Davis was very kind in giving me a set of 1943, 1943 d, and 1943 s coins that he put together himself. I should show you them sometime

 

what are they worth?

 

1943 was not the only year in which the materies used to make the Lincoln Cent were modified due to the need for copper for the war. In 1994 and 1945, Lincoln cents were made from recycled shell casings!

 

anywhere between 20 cents to 9 dollars a piece

 

In average circulated condition a roll of steel pennies can be had for $8 - $15.

 

have their been any other metals used in pennies?

 

yes, bronze was used in old indian head pennies and early wheatie cents. Copper was used in coins from 1944- 1961 (including the shell case cents of 1944, 1945, and 1946)

 

i've never seen those, what do they look like?

 

From 1946 until 1982 Lincoln cents were made from 95% copper and 5% zinc. From 1982 until the present, they were made from around 98% zinc and 2% copper.

 

wartime steel cents look like any ordinary wheatie cent (lincoln cents with an old design from 1909- 1959) except that they are silvery in color, like copper-nickel dimes and quarters

 

im pretty sure I showed you one before.

 

i don't remember

 

ill show you it one of these days, maybe next week.

 

http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/cents_indian_head.html

 

what is the rarest penny

 

i met you at a coin show, remember?

ill send a picture sometime this week so you can look at it.

 

short guy with glasses

 

what do you think is the rarest penny

 

well, the rarest lincoln penny is probably the 1909 s vdb. I'm not sure about the Indian cents, tho. Let me check