Was thinking about the floor for the value of old copper/bronze coinage. With current prices, it looks like copper is about $10/kg = 1 cent per gram. So if one could buy a UK large penny-sized coin for $0.10 US, would one be getting that coin at close to the underlying metal value? Or have I slipped an order of magnitude in my estimate somewhere? Not that I endorse melting down old coppers, but it's kind of amazing if some of them can be had for only a little over the underlying metal value.
Sorry, photo was for illustrative purposes only. Most of those were 25 cents! (A few were more, though.)
