No Copper Cents!- A Sign Of Things To Come Or Is It Here?

I'd say that was a freak thing. I'm still finding copper.

Its out there but the supply seems to be dwindling, slowly. I have seen my percents drop in the two years I have culled CU (from about 22% to around 17% now). Also, I believe the production of billions of new cents every year contributes a lot to the dilution of the supply. I see a lot of newer cents which seem to be on the top of the distribution pile. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of CU cents out there just becoming less and less each passing year.

When silver was at $47/oz copper was up to $4.50/lb. Now that it's back down to $3.40/lb I think you'll see a lot less people trying to hoard and flip it.
I know a couple guys in Philly that do between 20-25 boxes a week and dump solely at TD's. So there's a good chance a solid 15-20 boxes in a row may be all zinc.

I am still finding plenty of copper so I vote freak thing.

Just a heads up, if I'm not mistaken Ryedale machines don't pull out wheat cents. So don't give up all hope if you see a lot of zinc's. You may not get copper but there may still be wheaties.

I do not roll search anymore, but when I do get cents in change, I am still getting a fair amount of copper in the mix.

I say when because an increasing number of places are not using cents; they have figured out what the government has not.

For what it is worth, all of them are rounding totals down (that is, rounding up the change due to me), even it if costs them four cents. So much for the price gouging some people claim will happen if the cent is discontinued.

Funny how that works, huh?
As word gets around that copper cents are "worth more", I think they'll get hoarded just like wheaties were, eventually disappearing from circulation.