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Message:: [QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1228133, member: 22476"]I know what you all are going to say, and I already know the answer to the question: To save copper for the war efforts. But my real question is, they still used a lot of copper in nickels, if I remember correctly, so I just wanted to ask, why not COPPER-plated steel cents for 1943 instead of zinc? Or even, why not copper-plated zinc cents like we have now? I don't remember reading anything about them needing zinc for the war efforts, and even though I'm not that smart, I'm quite sure that they could have spared enough copper to plate steel or zinc cents for that one year, as plating doesn't take much metal. On an interesting not though, 15 years ago, when I was (ironically) 15 years old, working my first job as a grocery bagger, I asked this nice cashier I used to always bag for, if it were confusing to have the "silver colored" cents with silver nickels and dimes, and she told me "No, because the cent were always dull in color, while the other coinage shined". Hm......I wonder how many people would complain if the government made us go back to zinc-plated steel cents, and people would be passing or trying to pass cents for dimes and nickels. Maybe THAT would make people want to get rid of the cent once and for all. :devil:[/QUOTE]