Copper Hoarding?

eagle, if that box is coming from a Fed branch, it's going to be all cu/zinc, right?

I had a bank rep that I get most of bu $1-.01 cents rolls from that the Fed has them send customer rolled cent to a fed sorting place outside Atlanta so they can pull the copper cent out for the 2009 to help lower the cost!cut all the pork belly spending I say & cut there pay that would be a 1st thing I would do
so I am pulling all copper I can the fed will clean them out!
all new or young collector has to buy them now.D#m shame that you will have to buy an VF 1968 for .50 cent or more if the Fed clean out all the copper coins

I keep every Pre-1983 I get in change. I examine the 1982's later, of course.

I have no intention of melting them, legal or not. Actually, on the contrary, I am hoarding them for the time when they become scarce after the inevitable melting frenzy!

I keep all pre 83 cents from bank boxes and $50.00 bags from star tellers at grocery stores. The employees are more than glad to sell them to me and handle cash instead of heavy bags of cents. I've found serval wheaties but no varieties.

Yea, seems like the FEDS are melting them down, and at the same time telling us we can't! Talk about hypocrisy...

im actually starting to keep all of my copper cents. Never know when it will be time to sell.

I haven't had much time to go thru pennies, but when I do I have been getting about 10-15 or so coppers per roll on average. Based on what I'm reading here, I'd better pick up the pace with pennies (but I'm too busy with nickels and halves!!)