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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 21711993, member: 90692&quot;]Once again, this is a misconception that keeps being perpetuated because of ignorance.&nbsp; Many members here will tell you you are wasting your time holding onto non-keeper copper cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Inflation will eat away at their value so saving them defeats the purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Recyclers will not touch them because it is still illegal to melt them and they comprise the wrong copper content.&nbsp; It is too expensive to remove impurities.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those 2 reasons alone makes keeping old, worn out non-collectible copper cents an exercise in futility.&nbsp; Over the past 5 years I have culled out several thousand of these, some of which I began collecting in 1962.&nbsp; They have all been spent, mostly for gas for mowers and generators.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only logical reason anyone would save these is if you were making type-sets for future generations.&nbsp; But their value appreciation is many years, if not decades from now…imo…Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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