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What is the metal used in a 1 cent coin?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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If you mean the cent of the US Dollar currency:

Up to 1982 they used 95% copper and 5 % zinc.

From 1983 to presentit is 97.5% zinc, 2.5% copper.

core: 99.2% zinc, 0.8% copper; plating: pure copper.

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