Loading ...I remember way back on vronsky’s forum you talked about saving the real copper pennies (‘cents’, actually) and what the ratios were being found. The real copper slowly disappears from circulation as the crappy zinc cents take over. I started collecting copper cents back then and have several large jars of them now. I still check my change and I can spot a real copper by the color and depth of the strike. The new bimetal zinc stuff is an electrolytic battery that dissolves when wet, so the new cents look blotchy and rot fast. The strike design is much flatter also, and the image of Lincoln looks like a flat etching, not a strike with any depth.
Anyway, I can spot ’em fast in a handful. Now finding one in every 20-30 of the new crap, or there about. I thought about melting ’em… but you’re not supposed to. But if I ever put together a forge and needed some material, well…
Nice to know there are bags of ’em trading. Maybe someday I’ll be “Rich Uncle Pennybags”.