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Pillar of the Community
United States
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maybe I should buy some ingots and smelt my own to sell, at that price it would be worth it!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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2000 degree smelter and you're in like flynn.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I bought a few 1 lb copper bars on ebay in 2008 for $15 each. The going rate for these today is $15-$20 each. If you can find them for $10, it's a pretty good deal. They make great conversation pieces and are a nice novelty item as well. The copper value alone is but one part of the value. An interesting tidbit of trivia: With the density of gold being almost exactly 2.2 times that of copper, 1 lb copper bars are the same size as 1 kilo gold bars!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Insightful post Bherring, I admit I save copper from the jobsite, to collect a pound is not exactly fast, I have the means to smelt the copper, and it's a time consuming as well as energy consuming endeavor.
I have quite a few sticks as I call them of copper,nickel and brass.
the molds I inquired about were over five hundred each, I made one that works for me.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Would it be useful to spray clear acrylic lacquer on copper bars to stop patination or verdigris getting a hold?
You wouldn't do that to new copper coins, WOULD you? But, maybe copper bars?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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you could use laquer, personally for the sticks I use a light oil, the difference between bullion bars and coins is immense, a person could actually polish a bar with 5-O steel wool and not actually damage its value.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Wait and see what your local coin show offers. I bought a few 1/2 lb ingots for $4 each while in Baltimore. I used them as gifts.
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Valued Member
United States
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I recently refinished a desk from 1957 for my home office and have been chomping at the bit to pull the
trigger on a nice shiny copper bar to use as a paper weight and to add to the desks appeal. The drawer pulls
are all solid copper and they polished up super nice. I too inquired about smelting my own and molding the bar
myself from salvaged copper and decided it is too dangerous and too costly to attempt. But I will be buying one
soon if I can find one for between $10 and $15. Great question, I can't wait to read the future responses.
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Valued Member
 United States
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metalman do you have pics of the rods? it would be pretty awesome to see em...
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
buying copper bullion makes no sense......there is no numismatic value in that and you would be better of buying copper pennies....even though that method is suspect
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Valued Member
United States
183 Posts |
It has to be the novelty aspect of value, not an investment. You won't find someone investing $1M on copper at triple melt value.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1007 Posts |
I bought a 1 pound copper bar on ebay for $9.99 + $5 shipping (in one of those USPS flat rate boxes). It was just for fun, not an investment thing. It's glossy and shiny like a new copper cent. It goes well with my silver ingots. I was thinking of picking up another for fun and maybe a one pound nickel ingot. I've noticed 1 Kilo copper bars for around $22 but I don't think I want to go for one that much. Edited by matchbox
01/30/2011 2:34 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
"You won't find someone investing $1M on copper at triple melt value."
if you ever do find someone like that, inform them I have a bridge to sell, one made of copper
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Collect copper wire instead. It's pure, and it's more readily useful. And it can still be ebay'ed if the quantity is useful enough. I used to do that as a kid, scouring the local municipal rubbish dump. I would sell what I found to a scrap metal merchant, who was a friend of my dad. I sold copper scrap at three shillings and ninepence per pound. That is how I obtained the finances to start my coin collection in the 1960's. there is no way I could pay for some of those coins now! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nickel bars are also coming onto the market. If I'm buying metal, junk silver is a way better deal at around spot.
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Posted 01/29/2011 7:47 pm
