canaboy123
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Take the roughly 15 pounds of canadian copper pennies to the scrapyard? I'm in the US and i cant find a law not allowing the melting of canadian coins.
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SFBayArea said:Do you actually have 15 lbs of Canadian copper cents? That's a lot.
There's no laws I can think of in the US banning destruction of foreign coins. Why would they even bother creating such a law?
sagittarius98 said:Canadian cents had varying amounts of copper in their cents, so you may not get the exact amount for the copper.
TakeDownTick50 said:This makes me wonder whether you can take U.S. cents to Canada and melt them.
snamster said:Technically it is not illegal to sell US copper cents to a scrap yard, but it is illegal for the scrap yard to melt them. Food for thought.
MIhunter said:I do not believe that is true. The companies that buy foreign coins often melt them if there is no better way to covert them to US cash.