Market For 1982 And Below Copper LMC?

A search of completed sales on ebay shows that there are people buying them for a premium, but nowhere near as common as the sales for junk silver.

Who really cares about melt laws anyway? A copper cent is excellent as bullion. It has a known quantity and purity of the "precious" metal, not unlike the American Eagle or junk silver coins. It is much easier to buy, sell, trade copper as cents than as a giant slug that needs to be assayed.

I keep every copper cent that I get in change. I also keep every nickel (regardless of age). I do not search boxes or rolls anymore, so my "hoard" is not a fast growing one.

Copper pennies and nickels are worth more as bullion than face value so both are probably worth hoarding.

Just did a check....copper penny worth 2.48 cents and a nickle is worth 6 cents at the close of business today.

You can usually get 1.4x face for copper, sometimes more. There have been some pretty strong sales over the past couple of weeks, including a couple I've seen that were over 2x face - which was very surprising.

I keep my copper cents too, but only roll search 3-4 boxes a month.

Well I have about 250 rolls of copper cents now and still saving them.

Now nickels never thought of them all nickels or back from a date?

Metal value of the nickel is down to five cents today Copper dropped from $3.76 to $2.52 this morning a drop of $1.24 a pound. Almost a 33% drop