Anyone save copper pennies and/or nickels?

Anyone save copper pennies or nickels because of their rising metal content?

 

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Yup

 

Pennies or nickels?

 

nope

 

They dont make copper Nickels!

 

Duh, I'm talking about saving nickels, which are actually 75% copper 25% nickel

 

Oooooooh yea.. silly me

 

I work in the construction field. I save copper wire, sprinkler heads and pipes that comes from demolition. Much easier and good money!

 

Oh cool!

 

You're asking that question on this site? You've got to be kidding, right?

 

No not kidding, just curious

 

Didn't notice how new you were. Welcome to CT. My comment was, you're asking a large group of collectors/investors of coins, tokens, paper, etc. on a forum for such if they collect pennies and nickels. Of course we do, a lot of us. I just find that humorous. Lol and can't help it.

 

Yep I save both. But only the metal ones.

 

I work construction also and I get a lot of scrap (copper, brass, aluminum and lead mostly) but I also save copper cents (check out my hoard here) and nickels.

 

Here's what approximately 85 lbs. of wheat cents looks like.

 

Copper pennies, yes... Nickels, no.

 

I save any copper pennies I find, but I think nickels aren't worth it yet since they aren't worth more than face and because they're still being made with the same composition.The only reason I would save a nickel is if it has some numismatic value.

 

Any idea of the dates on those, or are they just mixed dates? Obviously there are some Steels in there.

 

I made myself a promise to only go through rolls to find coins for my collection, not to profit me. Coins and notes are government property (yes they are) so I believe it is wrong to go through hundreds of boxes of coins so you can profit yourself only a little bit. To answer your question, I save a bit of newly minted coins so I can hand them to younger collectors in the future. Just because a coin's metal content is considered invaluable, doesn't mean they aren't cool coins. In 2116, someone will find a 2016 coin that we look upon as trash today, and they will treat it as a treasure. We cannot rob the opportunity of the youth (and old) finding old coins and getting into collecting. That is something that some of us do on a daily basis. Let me just make an opinion that you don't have to agree on; Don't be selfish, whatever is given to you can be taken away, nothing lasts forever. I unfortunately have lived to see each of these, and just want to pass on the experience.

 

I think I may just end up putting my copper cents into a large bottle or something like that... I have a couple of jars of 1982s that I will sort through at some point.