During World War II, pennies were made of steel to save copper for the war effort. However, a few were mistakenly made of bronze, and these are extremely rare and valuable. Made of 95% copper and ...

It’s the wheat that could help you garner some green from collectors. The US could ditch the penny: What happened when Canada ...

Re “So long, penny! Trump orders U.S. to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints” (Feb. 10): Consider this solution to ...

Bottom line: All 1944 pennies were supposed to be created from copper or bronze instead of steel for this one year during ...

I spent much of my childhood looking for the famous 1943 steel penny. This was when they were using other metals for war production, so for one year they actually made steel pennies. I never found ...

“During World War II, pennies were made of steel to save copper for the war effort. However, a few were mistakenly made of bronze, and these are extremely rare and valuable. Made of 95% copper ...

In the early 1940s, the U.S. used zinc-coated steel instead of copper to make pennies because the latter was needed for World War II. Today, wheat pennies are considered the most commonly ...