Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!tower From: tower@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rec.coins Subject: Non-copper Cents ?????? Message-ID: <1856@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 02:09:48 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1856 Posted: Sun Dec 2 02:09:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:55:50 EST Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #N:inmet:25300002:000:500 Nf-From: inmet!tower Nov 30 21:17:00 1984 I have heard that the US Mint no longer makes 100% copper cents. Two queries: What was the last year 100% copper cents were minted? Did all the Mints switch in the same year? What is the present composition? Is it some kind of sandwich like the formerly silver coins? Please mail me responses. I'll summarize to USENET. -len tower UUCP: {ihnp4,harpo}!inmet!tower Intermetrics, Inc. INTERNET: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 661-1840 U.S.A.