# top dollar scrap yard

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**Created:** [March 20, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-dollar-scrap-yard/9557 "2006-03-20T09:43:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/top-dollar-scrap-yard/9557/13 "2006-08-01T17:51:29Z")

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> [@johns](#):
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> Not completely. In 1982 they switched to a copper/zinc mixture.

even still, with current copper rates, one penny has about 1.2 cents of copper in it.

sorry joe, this doesn’t help your cause. try selling your pennies to the mint though. hehe

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