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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JrCoin, post: 1142553, member: 18390&quot;]<b>copper bars serve their purposes...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hey, I don&#039;t own any copper bars but a couple might be cool...they would make great paper weights, and door stops, or if you just wanted to bulk up a safe so someone would have a hard time moving it, copper bars would be great.&nbsp; It&#039;s an attractive, useful metal, and it&#039;s a good thing it&#039;s cheap because we use a LOT of it.&nbsp; I can think of worse things to have lying around.&nbsp; If you&#039;re looking for an investment or inflation hedge, I wouldn&#039;t get too excited about copper.&nbsp; The storage issue, the shear amount you would need to make any decent sized investment, ugh, no thank you.&nbsp; I&#039;ll take quality over quantity when it comes to copper.&nbsp; Of course, it would be interesting to see what kind of role pre 82 cents could take on in hyper-inflation period.&nbsp; If silver is poor man&#039;s gold, what do you go with when silver gets too expensive?&nbsp; Copper could be poor man&#039;s silver.&nbsp; Actually I think of Aluminum as poor man&#039;s silver, being from Michigan with the 10 cent deposit.&nbsp; All those college kids with shopping carts full of empty beer cans, man oh man.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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