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Cents have been made of different metals over the last 150 years, so they'd have both different weights and densities.

1864 - mid-1982 except for 1943 : 95% copper / 5% tin and zinc.

1943 : steel with a thin coating of zinc

mid-1982 - present : zinc with a thin coating of copper

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