Melting Copper Question

Also the coin composition. It not pure copper. .950 copper, .050 tin and zinc.

COOP is right, the composition signature and your confession after a grilling would give it away. Don't take any of us down with you. I don't know this guy!!!

I believe it is a fair question to ask.
As much as it may sound like somebody who wants to break a law, it is certainly ponder-able what government was planning on doing to prevent this when they made the law.
I personally cannot get myself to spend copper cents. Spending 2 cents worth of copper for 1 cent just doesn't make sense (pun intended) to me. I don't have a plan for the copper cents. Time will tell.
The only time I can let one go, is when I give my kids a cent to smash in those elongated cent rollers. The zincolns don't come out nearly as nice.

And when that happens, the price of copper will go down to
50 Cents a pound or less

As Coop says your resulting block is not pure copper, so you're not going to get anywhere close to the spot price for it. Figure maybe half of the copper spot price. At that rate you'll have more in face value in cents in the ingot than what the scrapyard will give you for it. Now if copper gets back up the five or six dollar a pound range then you might be able to make a profit.

Your all kidding yourselves. Melting Copper coins is being done all the time at smelters. Many people simply bring in Copper pipes, cables, wires and coins all together. Then when melted down, the composition of the Copper is all mixed with whatever else was brought in at the same time. By me most smelters have people working there that can hardly speak English let alone know about any laws about what to or what not to melt. If it's metal, it gets melted. So just how would anyone know it was ever a coin if mixed with pipes, wires and cables? And even if melting a Copper coin was against the law, what about all the other ways Copper coins are messed with. At the Zoos they usually have those machines that make Pennies into a Zoo charm. So lets put the Zoo people in jail?

I think the difference, just carl, is that it's specifically illegal to melt cents and nickels, but it's not illegal to "alter" cents in those stamping machines or even on railroad tracks. I imagine they would go after a large operation melting millions of coins if they became aware of it. I think it's funny that you are also limited to taking only $5 worth of cents and nickels out of the country, but you can get on a plane with ten grand in banknotes.

Good one KK
Copper in circulation is certainly dwindling.