Bet you a penny that the US mint spends more money making a penny look like copper than than if they just made them out of copper in the second place…

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Put it on my account. ;{D
Given what copper’s going for – enough that assholes are willing to break into our Habitat for Humanity houses and rip freshly-installed plumbing out of the walls for scrap – I’d say the fake copper is prolly cheaper.
A nickel is worth about 7 cents. Production discontinues in 2013, so they’ll go the way of silver dimes and quarters. Load up now and cash in in a couple years, .
Anybody who ain’t jest fallen off’n the turnip truck, remembers the War-Time pennies of 1944 or thereabouts. They were made of zinc(?) or aluminum(?), and they looked it.
With all the metal thefts going on around the country, I’m surprised nobody’s bought a ton of pennies and turned them into copper bars.
dnqdwg: “Production [of nickels] discontinues in 2013…”
Say What?
ZZMike the “steel penny” was 1943. I have a bunch.
Last year was the final year is both Native American dollars and Presidential dollars being released into the general population too. They will only be released to collectors or you can buy them from the US Mint (just like a collector does)
I meant to add, because of their collector status many people will begin to hoard $1 coins. The vending machine folks are not happy about any of this.
‘ceptin’ that the mint doesn’t have to worry about scrappers knocking off an armored car to melt the pennies into cash, along with the habitat wiring and plumbing.
‘cept that the mint doesn’t have to worry about scrappers knocking off an armored car to melt the pennies into cash, along with the habitat wiring and plumbing.
This came up at T’giving. Pops said he worked with a fella way back when who would go every pay day and buy a bunch of pennies — all rolled up — and stack ‘em in his garage. He had a coupla tons, eventually. Everybody thought he was nuts, until he bought a new pick-up…
I`ve got a few South Vietnamese piastres layin around. They are marked $1 dollar. Any body know their exchange rate with Confederate dollars?