<div dir="auto">That might have been true pre-1982 but they're mostly zinc now:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">That made the metal composition of the cent</span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">95 percent</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> copper and </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">5 percent</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> zinc. The alloy remained </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">95 percent</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> copper and </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">5 percent</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> zinc until 1982, when the composition was changed to </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">97.5 percent</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">zinc and </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2.5 percent</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> copper (copper-plated zinc). Cents of both compositions appeared in that year.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:roboto-regular,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="roboto-regular, helveticaneue, arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/indexc686.html?action=fun_facts2">https://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/indexc686.html?action=fun_facts2</a></font><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 7, 2017 9:53 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_3041650658393036663WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 07, 2017 3:52 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.<wbr>org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Why is this still a thing?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> >…</span>Most pennies I see on the sidewalk are not there a day later.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…I infer from that that you don't pick them up; and I further infer that you don't because you have better uses for your time.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> John K Clark <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Pennies form a deep copper reservoir that keeps the particularly useful metal’s prices from fluctuating too wildly. If it gets significantly higher than the value of a penny, people will illegally recycle them while the copper mines crank up.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Back in the old days, the copper was needed in wartime. In 1943, US pennies were made of steel, while the copper mining and processing infrastructure was being used high-speed delivery of copper to the Nazis.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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