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A modern penny only has about 2.5% copper and the rest is zinc.

Before 1982 pennies were made of 95% copper with the remainder being tin and/or zinc. The Mint changed the composition that year when the price of copper increased to the point that the older coins contained more than one cent's worth of copper.

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