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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4495340, member: 27832"]No, I'd crack them open to look for a 10-carat diamond. They're more common, more likely to fall into circulation, and easier to sell (since they're legal to own).</p><p><br /></p><p>You won't find an aluminum cent. They weren't made with other cents, weren't rolled with other cents, weren't put into circulation. But if you won't believe the folks here, get a good scale and <i>weigh</i> each roll. If you find one that weighs about 2 grams less than the others, open it. It might contain an aluminum cent. Or, about a trillion times more likely, it contains some Zinc cents and the person selling it to you as a "bank roll of 1974 cents" was lying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4495340, member: 27832"]No, I'd crack them open to look for a 10-carat diamond. They're more common, more likely to fall into circulation, and easier to sell (since they're legal to own). You won't find an aluminum cent. They weren't made with other cents, weren't rolled with other cents, weren't put into circulation. But if you won't believe the folks here, get a good scale and [I]weigh[/I] each roll. If you find one that weighs about 2 grams less than the others, open it. It might contain an aluminum cent. Or, about a trillion times more likely, it contains some Zinc cents and the person selling it to you as a "bank roll of 1974 cents" was lying.[/QUOTE]
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