The highest price ever seen for a bronze Lincoln 1943-S penny was sold to collector Bob R. Simpson, co-chairman of the Texas ...

it’s the zinc-coated steel pennies that were minted in the hundreds of thousands and not the rare copper pennies of the same year. The penny in question is labeled as a 1943 1C Struck on a ...

If you find a penny ... more about these pennies! In 1943 as copper and nickel were needed by allies of the war, almost all circulating pennies were made from zinc-coated steel.

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

This wheat design remained on the penny until 1958 ... While most Lincoln Wheat Pennies are made of copper and zinc, a rare mistake occurred in 1943 during World War II. The U.S. government ...