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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 163642, member: 66&quot;]Assuming you could find a recycler who would take them, and assuming he gave you one fourth the excess value ove face that the metal was worth, your profit would be . . . $100.&nbsp; That&#039;s right $1000 dollars in nickels contains $1,400 worth of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your&#039;re right they did.&nbsp; &quot;Why bother hanging on to those silver quarters, they&#039;re only worth 26 cents each.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In the mid 70&#039;s before the big run up in silver people were constantly buying and selling silver at three times face.&nbsp; Well right now the pre 82 cents are worth 2.4 times face.&nbsp; In my lifetime I fully expect to see coin dealers at shows running bags of copper cents through their counters buying Lincoln cents the way they did/do buy silver cons.&nbsp; Right now a $50 face bag of pre-82 lincolns has almost $125 dollars worth of copper in it.&nbsp; At some point the recyclers are going to realize that they CAN recycle US coins and the market for cent bags will begin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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