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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 943056, member: 112"]Even if you decided to risk breaking the law and melt pre-'82 cents, there's a bit more to it than that before you could sell the product. You see, you wouldn't have pure copper and pure copper is what you'd have to have before you could sell it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pre-'82 cents are only 95% copper - the rest is zinc or tin & zinc. And that would have to be removed before you could sell the copper. That is also the expensive part of the process and a bit beyond the capabilities of the average person. </p><p><br /></p><p>You would be far better off just selling the coins as they are in coin form. That way the buyer knows exactly what he is getting. Melted down into ignots a buyer would have to assay every ignot to be sure of what they were getting. That is why coins stay as coins when sold on the bullion market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 943056, member: 112"]Even if you decided to risk breaking the law and melt pre-'82 cents, there's a bit more to it than that before you could sell the product. You see, you wouldn't have pure copper and pure copper is what you'd have to have before you could sell it. Pre-'82 cents are only 95% copper - the rest is zinc or tin & zinc. And that would have to be removed before you could sell the copper. That is also the expensive part of the process and a bit beyond the capabilities of the average person. You would be far better off just selling the coins as they are in coin form. That way the buyer knows exactly what he is getting. Melted down into ignots a buyer would have to assay every ignot to be sure of what they were getting. That is why coins stay as coins when sold on the bullion market.[/QUOTE]
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