What year did they stop making solid copper pennies?

What year did the U.S. government stop making solid copper pennies?

  • I've heard they stopped making solid copper pennies in the early 80's but them i heard they stopped making them in 1932 due to the high cost of copper in WWII and due to the low supply of copper and the high need for it.

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    1982 was the last year of the copper cent. that year some were copper and some were 90 % zinc and 10% copper . in 1943 they were made of zinc coated steel so that the copper could be used toward the war effort.

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Copper still isn't cheap and the cost of copper plus the cost of production rose beyond the value of a penny in the 80's. There is serious talk of discontinuing the production of pennies entirely due to the high cost of production now.

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