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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 8501926, member: 27832"]If you're hoarding fiat, you're doing it wrong. If you're hoarding fiat <i>change</i>, you're doing it doubly wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clad coinage has a "melt value" of 20% or less of current face value. Nickels and copper cents hold metal worth more than the coin's face value, but (a) you can't make money by smelting them, and (b) that value is still quite low relative to their volume and weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to hoard cash (and there are some good arguments for doing just that, even in an inflationary economy), be sensible, and hoard it in the form of $100s. Or, at worst, $20s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 8501926, member: 27832"]If you're hoarding fiat, you're doing it wrong. If you're hoarding fiat [I]change[/I], you're doing it doubly wrong. Clad coinage has a "melt value" of 20% or less of current face value. Nickels and copper cents hold metal worth more than the coin's face value, but (a) you can't make money by smelting them, and (b) that value is still quite low relative to their volume and weight. If you want to hoard cash (and there are some good arguments for doing just that, even in an inflationary economy), be sensible, and hoard it in the form of $100s. Or, at worst, $20s.[/QUOTE]
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