Very Interesting Craigslist Ad About Copper Cents

I'm hearing more and more about this pre 1982 cent hoarding all the time. Seems to be getting quite popular with alot of folks.

I am definitely keeping all of my copper cents, but I am not going out of my way to accumulate them. My reason is to save them, not melt them. I believe that copper cents will eventually have a premium value from attrition and not because of their metal content.

You could have her boyfriend pay you some rent in pennies.
Is it 1981 and earlier? Or are some 1982 all copper?

monkeyman67...yes he pays rent..and he did get me $50 in pennies for Christmas...so did she. I save the copper 82's also..I keep a popsicle stick balance beam right on the table while I'm searching ...adds another second or two and I'm checking them for double dies anyway.

Some people believe that copper will increase in value someday

The craigslist guy .. looks like he is in Kalamazoo Michigan .. not far from Canada

If I got the information right .. Canada can melt our cents.

I have been thinking the border states people may be taking coppers over the border.

mdh157...it takes a lot of time to gather $100 in copper pennies. I only do it because I roll search and I'm retired...and I'm making about 70% profit after ebay fees. It's easy money so I do it, but I wouldn't do it as a side job. I'd rather cut/split firewood if it was strictly a money thing...honestly.

i just finished rolling my 120th roll of copper cents. I have two empty egg cartons, and have each space labeled. The first space is 'Wheat', then it's 1959 through 1981. It happens when one 'egg space' comfortably holds around 60 cents. Then I put them in a roll and label the date. When I have a few rolls of a given date, I go through looking for DD's, RPM's, errors, the whole nine yards. Then I put the rejects back in their rolls and put them in a box that I will eventually sell for melt. Not that they will be melted, I bet they are just hanging around in people's garages/attics waiting for the economy and society to collapse. I'd rather get my 60% profit now and invest it. I do believe that more and more people will be hoarding these copper coins, but there is no way that the supply of people who hoard will be greater than the people willing to spend the time to sort coins from the bank, at least in the next 10 years, or until the melting ban is lifted (I'm not holding my breath on that one either). And besides, Canadian pennies basically have as much copper as ours had until 1982 until 1998 or something like that. Billions out there.