Collect them now so that in a few generations they are extremely valuable for copper when your great grandchildren are living in the sun-scorched wasteland.
They switched to zinc after the value of a penny became worth less than the value of the copper they were made of.
Then when they became worth less than the value of the zinc they were made of, they just asked people not to buy a million pennies and melt them down for metal.
Collect them now so that in a few generations they are extremely valuable for copper when your great grandchildren are living in the sun-scorched wasteland.
They’ve been copper-coated zinc for decades.
They switched to zinc after the value of a penny became worth less than the value of the copper they were made of.
Then when they became worth less than the value of the zinc they were made of, they just asked people not to buy a million pennies and melt them down for metal.
That’s just how valuable the small amount of copper in the coating will be worth.