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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3061807, member: 78298&quot;]Let&#039;s say you have a tub of 100,000 copper cents, $1000 face value.</p><p>If you were allowed to melt it, you would realize $500. Not including time, storage, and transportation which are significant expenses.</p><p>So what happens now? If you cash them in at the Coin Star you are giving up 11%.</p><p>Although there are no fee gift cards avail. Even if you dump them at a bank, you may be charged&nbsp; up to a 5% fee. If they take them at all, they may not.</p><p>You could try to spend them, (coin acceptor at the grocery) but it&#039;s not practical to do more than about 500 at most and even then the machine can jam or get full before you are done, and that would take a year or more to get rid of your 100,000 cents. There may come a time in the future when cents production are halted and the deadline for redemption has passed. And everyone with a 55 gallon drum of them will be stuck melting them for half price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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