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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jamy Smith, post: 25700420, member: 162785&quot;]I’m pretty sure the ban on melting pennies is directed at industrial production, it’s only provable and interesting to law if you have tons of pennies being fed into a commercial smelting furnace;</p><p>95/05 Cu-Zn, great brass stock, I think they’re sorted with a machine that removes about 99.5% of the plated pennies, that little bit of extra zinc is nothing</p><p><br /></p><p>there’s a huge outfit selling pre-82s for 75% melt, though price hasn’t changed since the recent 10% inflation;</p><p>Any size lot, 5,000 coins to a truckload</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s banking on the inevitable end of coin and lift on the ban, whoever wants a great heap of industrial commodities in long term storage wins that bet;</p><p>If I was an eccentric billionaire I’d buy an old dry mine and stuff it full of pennies</p><p><br /></p><p>Manually sorting pennies for profit is like making nails on an anvil, tons of poorhouse fun, almost as profitable as selling homemade charcoal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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