A Tumbleweeds View of Scrapping

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

I turn in some "die-cast" once and awhile, its majority zinc.

So, if zinc is going to get more expensive, is the fed gov going to give up on the penny (currently since the middle of 1982 run, 97.2% zinc because copper was too expensive)...? Just be like our brothern to the north and round everything up to the nearest nickel...

Iron core with copper or nickel clad seems to be the way minting coins is going in other countries unfortunately.