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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;justafarmer, post: 1378385, member: 3926&quot;]EVEN IF US CENTS WERE LEGAL TO MELT</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wanted to move a significant volume of them you would have to sell to a scrap yard. When a scrap sells their scrap copper in the 40,000 Lb truck loads they aren&#039;t even paid spot so don&#039;t expect a scrap yard to pay you spot. Problem is copper cents are not easily recognizable the scrap yard is not going to take yuor word for it. For all they know you could be delivering a load of zinc cents and trying to pass them off as copper. So your load will have to be sorted and verified. That takes time and money and special equipment. So you can expect an even greater discount. When the scrap dealer delivers a truckload of copper cents to the mill - the mill is going to approach the load with the same attitude and will sort and verify so the scrap dealer will be paid at a discount which will be passed to the original seller. Also cents are not pure they are 97.5 % copper so there is another discount. I say when it is all said and done - selling a significant volume expect to receive around 40% of spot or about 1 cent per cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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