Elongated Coins

Flattened or stretched and embossed

 

 

Search for pennies in The World’s Smallest Elongated Coin Store!

Seek and you shall find…
  • Home
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Faqs
  • My Account
    • Logout
  • Holiday Picks
  • Russo-Czech Crisis August 21, 1968
  • History Of Composition
  • Shop
  • Virgo • August 24 through September 22 • The Virgin
  • General Price Guide
  • Russian Spacecraft circles Moon – Zond 3 launched September 15th 1968
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2015
  • Scottish Elongated Pennies
  • Compare
  • Yop Poll Archive
  • President’s Day/Washington’s Birthday
You are here: Home / History Of Composition

History Of Composition

History of composition

Years Material Mass (grams)
1793–1796 100% copper 13.48
1796–1857 100% copper 10.89
1856–1864 88% copper, 12% nickel (also known as NS-12) 4.67
1864–1942 “bronze” (95% copper, 5% tin and zinc) 3.11
1943 zinc-coated steel (also known as 1943 steel cent) 2.67
1944–1946 “brass” (95% copper, 5% zinc) 3.11
1946–1962 “bronze” (95% copper, 5% tin and zinc)
1962–1981 “brass” (95% copper, 5% zinc)
1982 varies: “brass” (95% copper, 5% zinc) or copper-plated zinc (97.5% zinc, 2.5% copper)[6] 3.11 or 2.5
1983–present 97.5% zinc, 2.5% copper (core: 99.2% zinc, 0.8% copper; plating: pure copper)[7] 2.5



In honor of the Lincoln cent’s 100th anniversary, special 2009 cents were minted for collectors in the same composition as the 1909 coins.

Copyright © 2022 ElongatedCoins.info