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Bronze Two Pence / New Pence. Copper Value?

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 Posted 07/11/2011  4:47 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add fur_coin_talk to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Anyone know how much a copper two pence is worth in melt value?

American and Canadian cents are worth close to 3 cents in copper value.

The British Two Pence is so huge I was wondering what melt value was.

Same goes for the old 1 penny coins. What is the melt value on those?
They changed from bronze to steel in 1992

Do you hoard the copper coins in the UK- Americans and Canadians do.
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A pre 1992 2 pence coin is made from 97% copper. That makes the melt value of this coin about $0.066. This is at current market price of copper right now as I am looking at it. This means that a 1 pence would be half that. The calculation is bellow.

Current spot price of copper x conversion for grams x weight in grams x percentage of copper
(4.3172 x .00220462 x 7.12 x .97) = $0.0657
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07/11/2011 5:39 pm
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I've been saving all the pre 1992 copper that I get. I suspect I'll never trade it in - its really more bother than it's worth - but it gives me an excuse to check my change periodicially for errors anyway.
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