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>>57709237
>Not sure if the 50 Reichspfennig I have is zinc or nickel
If you speak about pic rel it's nickel iirc.

>I don't know if the difference in composition was due to needing specific metals for different purposes during war, especially since the bronze is pre 1940 and the aluminum and zinc seem to be from 1940 and after.
Most likely, large scale war is very, very copper intensive, mainly to craft shells at an industrial scale. Governments tend to use any alternative, even the US replaced copper coins with iron/alu during WW2. Even silver in some instances was used to replace copper.