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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3067656, member: 68&quot;]I don&#039;t disagree but there will be buyers when they are legal to melt.&nbsp; Sure the recyclers will want most of the profit for themselves just like they do with all the metals now.&nbsp; But there will be a lot of these being openly melted to make bronze art, castings, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Chill scrap&quot; is a word used by alloy makers to refer to the material they add to a batch of metal to bring it to spec.&nbsp;&nbsp; They intentionally overheat the metal so that it can be worked as alloy is added.&nbsp; Then to bring it to the proper temperature for casting they add cold metal of a calculated amount and similar alloy.&nbsp; This cold metal is called &quot;chill scrap&quot;.&nbsp; It is often used in other phases of alloy making and casting as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Artists will be paying a premium for pennies over melt value just to avoid the outrageous premiums charged by wholesalers for small quantities.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect this is where most of the pennies are being consumed today.&nbsp;&nbsp; They make zincs to replace them but zinc cents just corrode away as fast as they can be produced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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