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BTW the coin is a Penny or Cent, not "pennie"
Around 5 cents.
About 25 cents each in average condition
Steel
yes. She had a dog and it was a collie. Kim named it Pennie
A brushed steel product is made with polishing the metal and then applying grease so that it has a shiny metallic luster. Some products made from brushed steel are locks, soap dispensers and cookware.
Penny, not pennie; Bronze, not steel. If you have a 1939 cent that appears to be steel it's almost certainly plated. In any case, if it were steel it would stick to a magnet so that's the first thing to check.
Penny, not pennie; bronze, not steel. If you have a 1953 cent that appears to be steel it's almost certainly plated. In any case, if it were steel it would stick to a magnet so that's the first thing to check.
1943 cents were made of steel. Lead is far too soft for use in coins, as well as being poisonous if swallowed.
No, most wheat pennies are made of copper. Only the 1943 pennies were made from zinc coated steel. There were about 40 made from copper in 1943 and they bring up to $82,000 each!
The 1943 Lincoln cent was made of steel, not the nickel. Do a Google search to find the picture you want.
All but about 1 to 2 dozen 1943 cents were made of steel. The ones made of copper were accidentally struck on leftover blanks intended for 1942 cents. Average prices for circulated 1943 steel cents range from 20 to 35 cents.
They were not made out of lead. They were made out steel coated zinc.
It is made of steel with a zinc coating to prevent rust.
Lincoln cents from 1909-1942 are made of Bronze which is mostly copper. The 1943 cents are Zinc coated steel.
There are no exact records of the number of copper pennies made in 1943. It was about 40. Most pennies that year were made of steel.
No steel dimes were ever made but cents were struck in 1943 out of zinc coated steel and carry retail values of 5 to 50 cents (with no rust) for circulated coins.
1938 IN a MINT