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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doug21, post: 1727396, member: 5650&quot;]56% copper, 35% silver, 9% maganese .</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1942-1945-Silver-War-Nickel-Value.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1942-1945-Silver-War-Nickel-Value.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1942-1945-Silver-War-Nickel-Value.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;why not something else like steel used in the cents....not like they had sophisticated vending machines back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they needed the copper so badly as to make steel pennies then why was the nickel still mostly copper ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The nickel was made to be withdrawn from circulation if needed for whatever reason....I never got the logic there, I can see Hawaii banknotes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why didn&#039;t the gov&#039;t just make the nickel out of steel for a few years ?</p><p><br /></p><p>and why was the steel cent scrapped after only one year ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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