Thank you for visiting steel penny.fyi

This site is meant to provide some general information for those who find these in circulation or other interesting locations like geocaches.

A few facts:

• In December 1942, Congress approved a one-cent coin that would conserve copper. The Mint selected zinc-coated steel as the substitute material.
• Steel penny production saved enough copper to manufacture 1.25 million shells for American big-field guns during wartime.
• The 1943 steel penny is the only regular American coin that a magnet can pick up.

Wikipedia has a fairly complete writeup on the steel penny (click link to view): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_steel_cent

From the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta:

http://www.frbatlanta.org/economy-matters/banking-and-finance/clash-of-the-coins/coin-11_steel-penny.aspx

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