How Much Longer Will Copper Cents Be In Circulation ?

I save them ONLY BECUASE I'm LOOKING THROUGH THEM.

I roll search for doubleddied,rotated dies,wams' cam's and so on.

I would not collect or save them if it was just for copper content, I feel that will be a yo-yo ride.
Copper goes up people hoard copper. Copper goes down people dump copper back into circulation .

Being I am looking at them I have two buckets below my chair one on the right one on the left.
I examine the coin drop it in the zinc bucket or copper bucket when done.

I am still keeping all of mine. Not for profit, but to save them from being melted.

I need to start moving my bulk copper cents, I have over 300 pounds at this point.

Answer to original posters question:

9 years 4 months 7 days and 17 hours.
This will be the time when the last American Copper Cent will be found in circulation......and it will be found in Ohio, by a 19 year old college student.

And also, the Zincoln Cent will go N.I.F.C. in exactly 11 years! .....

There will be a new show on the Discover Channel about "Copper Hoarders", and it will start a prairie fire of enthusiasm for Copper searching that this country has never seen before....or thought possible.
This nationwide phenomena explosion will "hurry the end" of Copper being found in circulation forevermore ! ........

That is like when store shelves are emptied of their bread and milk when snow or ice is forecast. Even those people that do not normally buy bread or milk are caught up in the hysteria. It is quite amusing.

I think the mint should quietly quit making them, since most people just waste them now. Orders from the fed should be ignored by the mint. Eventually, orders from the banks would be ignored by the fed. Do not announce it, just do it.

Eventually the supply will dry up and most people will continue to care less. I still believe businesses would rather round cash totals down than create a fuss with their cash customers (the same customers that prevent a percentage of their transaction from going to the card processor).

People only care when you tell them you are taking something away. If something as (generally) unwanted as the cent just quietly disappeared, would anyone (besides those of us on forums like this) make a fuss?

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