But these 2 guys weren't picked last when it comes to numismatic experience and knowledge. These are guys you want on your team when you're having difficulty determining that a coin with obvious PMD isn't an error. Hopefully, they didn't add you to their ignore list
People are doing a brisk business on ebay selling 5000 count bags of circulated copper cents. Motivations of buyers are all over the map.
Maybe the 2 biggest fallacies about copper cents is that varieties such as doubled dies are common and all are worth thousands of $$ ; and in the copper bullion get-rich-group it is that copper cents will one day be worth 10-20 cents each. Problem with the first is that people don't realize the Youtubers get paid by subscriptions to their videos and so they talk up the expensive rare errors as if they are in every coinstar, bank drawer, and your neighbors pockets. They make the money and their watchers lose hours and hours looking through every source for coins, that the chance of finding one is like winning the MEGA several times in a row or being struck by lightening 4 times in one year and surviving. secondly as mentioned 95% copper coins is not worth near as much, if any, as it must be refined to pure copper for the copper metal price. So wasting time to save them is not good unless you are a sculptor as then you can get away with melting them and molding a bust as use in art is excepted from law. In my school , dodge ball was for girls and lady teachers, we played dodge hammers in the metal shop. Jim
I don't make it a point to chase people down on FleaBay just because they haven't been educated on the value of a copper alloy like pre-1982 Lincoln cents. If they show up here, I will do my best to explain it to them. ~ Chris
You folks know I posted asking about 1919S penny. My copper bucket is a 16oz plastic cup. Never did I ask about saving copper pennies for investment. This thread would not be the train wreck that it is if actual information would of been given rather than put in coded replies
oops.. edited to excise an unresponsive remark... btw..to the OP.. welcome to Coin Talk. Nice to meetcha
I vote for glue on the reverse. Soak it for several days in acetone and then see if you can lift it off with a tooth pick. Many of the older albums would allow the coins to fall out, so some people used to glue them in, thus getting it only on the reverse.
The train wreck better describes some of the responses here. The OP did not bring up saving copper for investment, it was completely assumed of him and then he was accused of doing so in a pretty snarky manner. I don't blame him for posting in his defense, though he was admittedly snarky in return. I'd say all sides are guilty for a pretty rotten thread in this case.
