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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 1794544, member: 4350&quot;]I don&#039;t get it. I know some people are buying and selling pre-1982, post 1958 dated cents but there are drawbacks to piling up a load of pennies that you really cant&#039; do much with.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You can&#039;t sell them to a recycler. It&#039;s against Mint regulation to destroy them. They are not pure copper and therefore even if they could be traded legally, a recycler wouldn&#039;t pay &quot;melt&quot; for them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The price of copper is figured on copper being electrolytically pure and sold in a large amount. A ton, I think....and cent coins don&#039;t make the metallic grade, so to speak to a recycler. Depending upon the dates, the pre-82 cents contain some zinc, tin, or a combination of the two.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nickels are about 75% copper so they are even more impure as far as recycling is concerned.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There is a cost of more than two cents to make the coins but you can&#039;t get two cents out of them if they could be recycled legally.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Right now, the only way to make a few bucks on them is to sell them to someone who doesn&#039;t understand that you can&#039;t do anything with them but make a pile of &quot;pennies&quot;</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Looking for rare die varieties is the key to making some bucks on cent searches..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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