what metals are currently used to make pennies
A penny is made up of 2.5% copper the rest is sodium and florite Nope, current pennies (from 1982 through 2010) are copper clad zinc. Starting in 2011 the mint is debating â¦several options from discontinuation to changing to use of a special steel alloy that is copper colored. Before 1982, pennies were bronze alloys of various types.