This spring I went through LOADS of pennies. I bought all the boxes I could stand before the banks stopped distributing.
Lately I've only been sorting through stashes of small change people don't want to roll.
I have a reliable place to sell copper pennies for 1.5 cents and nickel nickels for 8 cents each.
That's what makes me want to sort another $1000 in nickels. 10% nickel=$50 profit. With the chance of some saleable varieties.
I recently did very well selling some popular nickel varieties on
ebay.
For future reference $200 in copper cents is more then I can carry at once.