Are You Hoarding Copper Pennies? Poll

I voted yes, but I really only keep a roll of each date/mintmark combination in BU red condition. I don't anticipate selling them for a huge profit but will likely give them away to nephews, nieces, etc.

If someone wants to bring hoarding up to today's standard, some guy bought a million face nickels direct from the mint last year. Will the zinc shield stand the test of time? I'm sure the mint is scared knowing if they move to a steel cent something funny is going to happen with the penny supply.

I haven't started doing this, but maybe I should. I used to go through rollsof cents regularly and picked a few old wheaties, which I saved. Also 43's steelies. But I think you woudl have to accumulate a huge amount of cents to get enough copper to make it worthwhile. I don't think I will start this. Silver, yes; copper, no.

I recently started getting pennies from the bank. Used to get boxes, but now they charge, so I get individual rolls. Just emptied some of the rolls into a water bottle. I noticed a wheatie in one end and checked to see if others in the roll. The whole roll was wheaties and another roll was all except for two. I later went through more rolls and found I had a total of fourteen rolls of wheaties. I will check them later. First two rolls yielded 1935d, 1919, 1916. Mostly 1940s and 1950s. Hoping other rolls have some surprises! I will be saving 1982 and earlier copper. There are probably easier ways to get copper like statues, trays, etc. I really want to look for silver, but bank does not get halves and dollars, so not sure what to do. Federal Reserve says I have to go to my bank. Any suggestions?

I think I have read that they are bought and sold on ebay. I would just keep them if it were me.

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Posted 12/11/2021 07:58 am

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I just looked through four boxes of cents and found seven coppers, one steel and another LWC. Not like the old days, but enough to keep me going.

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Deja vu all over again.

I do not specifically collect pennies currently, of any year, but used to as a child.

My dad has a 100 year old glass milk jar that is capable of holding $100 in pennies. I'm quite certain, that the pennies that are currently in the jar, are the same pennies that have been in the jar for quite a few years, as he relied on my to roll them every year, and put them towards our yearly vacation.

Now, something I did do today, besides buying some silver, was buy a 10lb bar of cooper (lol) from a site that had been recently reccomended to me.

It's copper, it was $60, I wanted it to go with the 1lb silver eagle

Yes. While I haven't gone out of the way to obtain pennies I have separated them and just will keep them. You never know what will happen. I just think the last 2 real forms of money in circulation pennies and nickels are worth to hold on to. They may or may not amount to more than face but I guess they remind me of how we kept the silver coins back in the 1960s!