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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 3972357, member: 15199"]Maybe the 2 biggest fallacies about copper cents is that varieties such as doubled dies are common and all are worth thousands of $$ ; and in the copper bullion get-rich-group it is that copper cents will one day be worth 10-20 cents each.</p><p><br /></p><p>Problem with the first is that people don't realize the Youtubers get paid by subscriptions to their videos and so they talk up the expensive rare errors as if they are in every coinstar, bank drawer, and your neighbors pockets. They make the money and their watchers lose hours and hours looking through every source for coins, that the chance of finding one is like winning the MEGA several times in a row or being struck by lightening 4 times in one year and surviving.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>secondly as mentioned 95% copper coins is not worth near as much, if any, as it must be refined to pure copper for the copper metal price. So wasting time to save them is not good unless you are a sculptor as then you can get away with melting them and molding a bust as use in art is excepted from law.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my school , <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie65" alt=":meh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> dodge ball was for girls and lady teachers, we played dodge hammers in the metal shop. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 3972357, member: 15199"]Maybe the 2 biggest fallacies about copper cents is that varieties such as doubled dies are common and all are worth thousands of $$ ; and in the copper bullion get-rich-group it is that copper cents will one day be worth 10-20 cents each. Problem with the first is that people don't realize the Youtubers get paid by subscriptions to their videos and so they talk up the expensive rare errors as if they are in every coinstar, bank drawer, and your neighbors pockets. They make the money and their watchers lose hours and hours looking through every source for coins, that the chance of finding one is like winning the MEGA several times in a row or being struck by lightening 4 times in one year and surviving. secondly as mentioned 95% copper coins is not worth near as much, if any, as it must be refined to pure copper for the copper metal price. So wasting time to save them is not good unless you are a sculptor as then you can get away with melting them and molding a bust as use in art is excepted from law. In my school , :meh: dodge ball was for girls and lady teachers, we played dodge hammers in the metal shop. :) Jim[/QUOTE]
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