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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fjrosetti, post: 27967, member: 785&quot;]Over the years, since being introduced in 1982, the zinc cents have become a real problem regarding how they decompose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being in retail management, I have seen firsthand the condition of the zinc cents go from bad to worse to pathetic.</p><p><br /></p><p>A handfull of zinc cents out of any cash register these days reveals coins in a condition of advanced rot. Many are so bad as to be unrecognizable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Worse, many of the &#039;old&#039; copper cents mixed with them are also getting the &#039;zinc&#039; disease!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank goodness most of the wheat cents are now out of circulation and safe from this effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I would have been more pleased with a plastic cent than to watch what is happening with the zinc.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a metal that should never have been used for coinage; at least not by a country as prosperous as the U.S.A.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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