Quarter Made Of Nickel

About 6.5 cents and 2.5 cents.

Did that answer put you off ?

Who knows were nickel prices would be in a few years from now ... dont be put off by current prices ! I think if you start hoarding nickel quarters now it will eventually pay off - trust me on this one

I've got a bunch of them and it grows all the time, I get Canadian cents in my coin rolls here in Montana all the time. No question for me to save them, I can't spend them here. Interesting how American collectors might end up with more than the Canadian collectors, I'd say save as many as you come across.

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I know I can take my silver coins to my LCS and get at least silver melt price for them... what they do with them I don't know but I'm getting paid melt price that's not too bad.

I think the time will come when the penny will have a melt price as well... I don't exactly have large buckets and bins of them myeslf... at tops perhaps 20 boxes... and I'm happy with that. If I can.. I'll melt them.. otherwise just get rid of them if I ever need the money.

I never could understand the idea of trying to melt down coins. One thing I did see said if an American melts down Canadian cents they will most likely not get arrested for it, unless they go to Canada as a known melter

I can justify the expense of coin roll hunting more than 2 ounces of silver tons of Canadian and other world coins, plus a little bit of gas and time. But can anyone even think about how much the melting would actually take. How would you melt them? Wood, charcoal, coal, welding torch, Industrial Blast furnace?

About LCS melting down silver coins I really hope they are only sending in the worst most dingy coins, and checking for key dates. You would assume if they have stayed in business that they would knew to do that. I just picked up several coins from the cull bin at my LCS and some of them are beautiful. I don't want people to solder gold coins on to necklaces but one thing the older US cents and nickels are used for is jewellery and souvenirs. bought and sold in bulk and picked over by dealers and collectors. I see no reason for this to not continue as content and design changes again.

In Canada you can melt U.S. copper cents. a pound of copper is $1.52 US. Copper is worth $3.38 per pound US. Do the math...
In the US you can melt Canada copper...
It is just illegal to melt YOUR currency in YOUR country.

In the US it is illegal because of the price of copper. Every other coin you can melt as you please.

Our local LCS's in Vancouver send in silver to the mint for melting.

The most recent discussion I had with one was about sending in Canadian Olympic silver coins, for which they were breaking open plastic covers before sending them in.

No way! I love those coins. I would happily buy one of each at melt (...if I had the money).