andrewmoquin Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 With todays Copper prices, a Copper cent is worth a Penny. Why are you still hoarding. For me, if I'm going to look over the old Copper for errors, I'm going to separate them and save them for a Rainy day. Who knows what next week is going to bring. GrinA roll of copper cent(s) has 50 coins and is valued at $0.52 when copper is at $1.5543 / lb and zinc at $0.5202 / lb (exact value is $0.51511784094618). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whats4supper Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 aha! modern copper pennies have only 1% copper in them (as a colorant agent); the rest is Zinc.part of the strategy is to have the coins disolve in soil. older copper coins, 1990 and previous had vastly higher copper content (90%). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendo Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Hey Charlie, don't mean to disagree, but the change from 90% copper to zinc was in 1982. The 1982D cents were copper, the rest were zinc(COINage, Dec.1989) I have been collecting since 1988. Hendo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whats4supper Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Hey Charlie, don't mean to disagree, but the change from 90% copper to zinc was in 1982. The 1982D cents were copper, the rest were zinc(COINage, Dec.1989) I have been collecting since 1988. Hendo Okay. didn't/couldn't remember. The day before yesterday I got an important letter. I put it somewhere where I wouldn't lose it. Now I can't remember where the 'don't lose it' place was. So pennies aren't the only issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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