The Blue Ridge Glass Company in Tennessee, which no longer exists, made experimental pennies made of tempered glass.
The former owner of the penny, Roger Burdette, says that the coins' impressions weren't precise, their weight and size not uniform and there was a tendency to develop sharp edges. These led to their being rejected. Most of these experimental pennies were destroyed.
He knows of just one other in existence and it is broken.
The U.S. Mint did make its 1943 pennies from low grade steel covered with zinc and started making copper pennies again in 1944.
Penny for Your Thoughts. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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