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Sure it'd be better off if the US did away with them and rounded them up or down to the nickel, but you know.
Anyways in 1974 there was proposal to replace copper pennys with with aluminum. Eventually that idea was dropped and the current zinc with copper plated pennys was born.
Suppose however they had, this seems like a small change but it could lead to bigger changes.