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No. "Magnetic" means that a piece of metal is itself magnetized, so coins are never magnetic. However metals like steel and nickel are attracted to a magnet. But in the case of US Coins, most of them contain a high enough concentration of other metals (copper today, silver in the past) that they're not attracted to a magnet.

The only exception to this were the famous 1943 1-cent coins that were made from steel because copper was needed for the war effort.

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You really can't. If you would even try it would destroy the coins value.

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it attracts to older coins, the newer coins are made of metals that are not magnetic

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