Copper Pennies

In my opinion, your pound of pennies will always be worth $1.54...it's not like you're losing money to invest in them. If it goes to $1.50 or less a pound, you still have $1.54. If it stays at $3.50/lb, you've more than doubled your money. Either way, you're not losing anything.

What TexasCoinHunter says is true and I had boxes of US cents and British pennies collected in just that way.

However, when in comes to moving house, they're a nuisance, heavy to carry, cause clutter.

my mum wasn't amused and later on girlfriends then my wife complained bitterly about them.

It's easy to collect them but as I found, extremely difficult to sell the common ones for more than safe value.

My local scrap merchants weren't interested in less than 50 Lbs weight and the price was a fraction of the market price.

I gave my pennies away to schools, thinking they might at least start some numismatic interest.

ok well I don't fully understand is this
hyperinflation will occur, it's not a question of if but when
in this situation gold, silver, copper and any other commodity will greatly increase in value
if people are hoarding there copper pennies, silver, gold for a long term investment and waiting for the economic collapse of the dollar to cash out then...
by the time hyperinflation hits wouldn't the numismatic value of the coin out perform it's metal value?
I say we still have several decades, perhaps a couple of centuries, before hyperinflation actually hits (I don't think we are bad off as people think right now). In a hyperinflation scenario every will go up in value, including current worthless zinc cents, put again I would imagine the numismatic value by the time hyperinflation hits will out perform the material value.

I understand that any material asset will outperform the falling american dollar and that simply leaving your money in the bank will not beat inflation. Simply waiting for interest rates to go higher appears not to the solution. Interest rates are likely to get worse and in the long run this will happen as our economy gets weaker. Either way you still making money in worthless USD, weather interest rates are low or high.