It's Zinc coated steel and is valued at 3 to 5 cents for average coins
No. It is steel coated with zinc.
The 1943 Lincoln cent is zinc coated steel not nickel and copper.
1943 pennies are not silver. They are zinc coated steel. Copper was saved for war effort.
The coating is zinc, the core of the coin is steel. Zinc was used to reduce corrosion.
No, with the exception of the zinc coated steel penny of 1943, the first zinc penny was struck in mid-1982 and all US cents dated 1982-present are zinc with a thin copper coating.
It is made of steel with a zinc coating to prevent rust.
They were not made out of lead. They were made out steel coated zinc.
The 1943 Lincoln cent is zinc coated steel not nickel and average values are 5 to 10 cents
Neither the original copper or the newer version copper-zinc penny is magnetic. The 1943 steel penny was the only penny effected by a magnet.
There's no such thing as a pewter penny. 1943 wartime cents were made out of scrap steel and coated with zinc. Please see the Related Question for more information.
It's only worth about 50¢ circulated $5 uncirculated
The 1943 US cent was made of steel with a zinc coating to prevent rust and weighed 2.70 grams. The cent of today is composed of 99.2 % zinc and 0.8 copper with a plating of pure copper and weighs 2.5 grams.