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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 108063, member: 4552&quot;]I don&#039;t think normal people would ever go through the trouble to melt down a few pennies for the copper price. However, I&#039;ve met a few electricians that have admitted convesgating all the copper wiring from demolition projects and along with the pennies melting them down in a small man made furnace made of think steel garbage cans. Occational Aluminum, Zinc, etc that would get into the mess made little difference since they were getting bulk rate for something the didn&#039;t pay for except the pennies. They had no interest in coin values, just copper and other metals. They would sell the settled out blobs to metal recyclers. At one project being built I worked on a 17,000 foot roll of #4/0 grounding copper vanished. Copper grounding for fences must be done on the inside of the fence or it too will vanish. As to the copper coins being melted down, I don&#039;t think to many people will go through the trouble of trying to acquire enough to melt down for a metal sale profit. However, there are those.......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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