Copper Cents

By the way, I am not doing this to make a profit.

I am doing this to save the cents from being melted when (not if) the melt ban is lifted.

I pull all of the cents that I receive in change and separate them by copper and zincolns into different buckets. The daily effort is minimal. When the bucket gets full I roll the copper ones. I give the zincolns to my wife to take to her store. I have been doing this for many years. It really doesn't cost much to save a few pennies a day this way. I figure that they will probably be worth extra some day.

Sorry to burst your bubble jbuck, but the Mint will never allow us collectors or anyone else to ever melt them without them receiving the full profit. They want all of the profit for themselves.

I do have rolls of BU copper cents that I'm saving though, that I bought many years ago.

I'm curious, people are going on about the ban on the melting of bronze pennies as if just the fact that it is banned will stop it from happening. So, my question is this: Is it legal to melt pre-65 U.S. silver coins?

Food for thought:

Let's say the you S government says we can all melt our pennies next week.
Will copper recycling centers actually take a 5 gallon bucket of pennies? How do they know they are all pre 1982? They certainly will not look at each one, and if they do a random sampling and find just one zinc cent in there, your whole batch is infected and you'll carry that bucket back to your car. If you have any 82's in there they're not going to weigh each one.
The recycling guys I have seen are generally the type who will tell you where you can put your pennies, if ya know what I mean.
So, where will you take you pennies for melt?
Again, just food for thought.
Comments?

I have over $200 face value of copper cents and let me tell you, moving an ammo can full of cents is a good workout.

I was using 100% nickel Canada dimes back when they were only worth 7 cents US$