Originally Posted by AKCHOPPER
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Because they're 95% copper. Post-81 pennies are mostly zinc, with an exterior wash of copper. I've been hording them for about twenty years, i.e., whenever I get one in change, it goes in a jug.

Thanks Hawk, I'll start paying more attention to my change. How often do you seem them? Coming up on almost 40 years old,

Nowadays, it seems it's like one in ten is pre-82. Maybe less.