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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3932511, member: 77814&quot;]In short, (if it ever became legal) if you were to take a ton of pennies to a copper dealer thinking you&#039;ll get top dollar they&#039;d stare at you wondering if you lost it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll have to get those pennies processed to make pure copper .. so that will cost you more than a pretty penny to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are holding in your hand is essentially &quot;scrap copper&quot;.&nbsp; Not &quot;pure copper&quot;</p><p>basically what you have from 1959 to 1982 is a disc of&nbsp; 95% Copper and&nbsp; 5% Tin &amp;&nbsp; Zinc.&nbsp; It&#039;s up to you to purify it a tad more to make it something worthwhile or sell it to someone who will process it (which costs money).</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance electrical grade copper is 99.99% copper.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think pennies even fall in the first two grades of copper scrap.&nbsp; edit: actually taking a quick look #2 copper is 94-96%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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