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Message:: [QUOTE="Michael W. Bradley, post: 4804029, member: 114144"]Would just like to add my two cents: Still haven't quite got the grasp of using  your Board yet but, here goes, this discussion has been going on for years. I am supposing it will take an act of Congress. But of course the pivotal year was 1982, where several different types of copper and the copper-plated zinc was initiated thereafter.  I don't know as I thought one of the "penny experts" might weigh in. Yes, it is illegal to melt US coinage. The last I heard the copper value of the penny is in excess of "the cent". I heard also that the zinc value is in excess as well.I joined the board for their discussions of Roman coins of which I got "the bug" two 1/2 years ago.  I have been awed by some of your insight. This my 2nd post. I noticed the above display of a "two cent note" which I believe would meet the requirements under the UCC as a "Promissory Note". As an Ohio notary I have made a rather quaint study of the obsolete procedure of "Notarial Protest" under UCC/State law.[/QUOTE]