What does everyone do with there zinc pennys?

[Red James Cash]

They would LOVE for us to send them 10 million pieces of mail a day. At 49 cents per stamp, the government would take that almost 5 million dollars (and a few corroded pennies) with open arms

Thats all right,its the point and the outcome of it that counts,not whats spent doing it.

 

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[BigWaveDave]

After New Years, all my change is rolled up, deposited, and goes towards renewing my Red Sox spring training season tickets......yea, I know, they suck.

 

[testing123]

The ones that are really bad I throw in a separate jar. Probably have about 300 by now. I figure when I fill the jar I'll take them to the scrap dealer.

that sounds like they're going to be melted. It's certainly not legal for the copper Lincolns so you might not want to suggest such activity on a public forum. Not sure you'd get much in scrap value anyway for the zincolns...According to coinflation, a full zincoln contains $0.0062398 in metal right now.

The mint does have a mutilated coin division, but not sure it's worth the postage for a bunch of lincolns.

 

[Garrett424]

I trash the bad ones and save the ones I think will make it through the Coin Star machine.

I hate those things and actually enjoy throwing them in with all of the other trash in some strange way.

They can't even make a decent penny anymore. What's the world coming to??

 

[Terry Soloman]

I save them all, then once a year I drive down to Florida, and throw them on the beaches Ron Lord hunts..

 

[gleaner1]

I'll be brutally honest with you. I cant tell you what everyone does with them, I can only tell you what I do with them. I throw zinkies straight forth and directly into the garbage pail along with all the other crap, without hesitation or so much as a second thought. Try it.

 

[Tnmountains]

Moved to General discussion this today finds is for what it implies.Thanks

 

[GatorBoy]

I save them all, then once a year I drive down to Florida, and throw them on the beaches Ron Lord hunts..

Ha..

 

[Pointman]

They would LOVE for us to send them 10 million pieces of mail a day. At 49 cents per stamp, the government would take that almost 5 million dollars (and a few corroded pennies) with open arms.

Acutally, that would be only $4,900,000

 

[Dave Rishar]

The Mint pays $1.45/lb. for rotten zincolns, so about fifty cents on the dollar. It's not fair, but I like the idea of mailing their garbage back to them. The payment is just a bonus.

 

[Frankn]

You ought to get a charge out of this!
Connect them together copper to zinc and build a battery. Merger in lemon juice.
Hay, they come out of the ground as a renewable energy source.
Frank...-

 

[lookindown]

I throw them where I throw the rest of my garbage...in a garbage can.

 

[Boatlode]

I save them all, then once a year I drive down to Florida, and throw them on the beaches Ron Lord hunts..

Nice.

 

[GatorBoy]

So he's the moron

 

[deepseeker3]

Yep, they are junk. Over 1/4 gone, and the coin machine at my credit union does not take them. I am surprised by some that they do take.......

 

[Peyton Manning]

my question is: what do you do with copper cents?

Are they worth more than one cent now?

 

[GatorBoy]

A quick look appears that they're melt value is actually more than their face value the first sight I looked at has the melt value for a copper penny at 2.1 cent.. They're worth more than twice as much melted!

 

[Peyton Manning]

so I save all the 81 and older and I double my money! sweet !

 

[Dave Rishar]

my question is: what do you do with copper cents?

Are they worth more than one cent now?

Yep. Last I checked, they were going for two and a half cents each on Ebay in volume, with the buyer paying shipping.

That's just about melt value. I don't personally understand it, but I segregate my coppers for eventual resale.