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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3552457, member: 77639&quot;]It won&#039;t really matter whether anyone wants to keep the penny once the zinc and that tiny bit of copper in it attain a value greater than one cent.&nbsp; Inflation will ensure this will happen in the not too distant future. At the current price of zinc ($1.23/lb), there&#039;s about 0.7 cent-worth of zinc in a cent coin.&nbsp; 123 cents/lb&nbsp; x&nbsp; lb/454 g&nbsp; x 2.5 g/coin&nbsp; =&nbsp; 0.68 cents/coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>When there is a bit more than a cent&#039;s worth of zinc in the penny, they&#039;ll go in the pot.&nbsp; It won&#039;t matter that it may be illegal to melt the little darlings.&nbsp; It didn&#039;t matter in the sixties when silver coins were being melted.&nbsp; Once coins become big hunks of scrap metal, their origin is mute.&nbsp; And zinc has a much lower melting point than silver (787 vs 1,783 F), so a lot more folks can participate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course with silver, it was possible to substitute cheaper metals for coinage.&nbsp; Zinc is pretty much bottom of the barrel for metals.&nbsp; Plastic pennies anyone?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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