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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1232116, member: 12789&quot;]From an account I read some time back, this was all part of the plan.&nbsp; Have to remember it was war, and everybody wanted to do their part - the composition of the cent was changed in 1943 to zinc plated steel, and of course the nickels were changed to a silver and manganese composition - and the large ubiquitous mintmark was added on - it made people aware of the war in their everyday lives.&nbsp; The copper and nickel were really not that strategically short in supply that the mint would have had to have done without them - but it was one way of making a sacrifice along the lines of all the other sacrifices made during the war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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