Well, I've Come To The Decission Of Keeping US Nickels

I am surprised that no one has mentioned this. Hoarding nickels without the prospect of selling them at a premium is a money losing proposition because of inflation. Your $100 worth of nickels will drop in value each year with the rise in inflation. Even hoarding copper pennies could eventually become a money losing proposition unless you melt them illegally with the assumption that the government can't trace the copper. My personal opinion is that hoarding coins is similar to investing in metals that you hold at your home with the exception that the coins have a minimum value as currency if the value of the metal drops below the face value of the coin and that the coin has not been demonitized. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose with te gambles you take on speculating. I hope all of my copper pennies that I have get me more than face some day. As far as nickels I'm not so sure the gamble is worth it but I do keep all the lewis and clark nickels that come my way.

I've started saving them myself. Even if they aren't worth much in the future, there still isn't much to lose from keeping change.

Same with copper pennies or the melt value of nickels, theyre all based on commodities.

I understand the Cyprus fear too, you cant say something would never happen here. BUT honestly I dont see how pennies or nickels would help, most places dont even let you make small purchases in pennies much less lugging bucketfuls in