Penny Horders --Mint To Chg. Composition???

[CoilFisher]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/laws-change-penny-hoarders-cash-thousands-dollars/story?id=15076522


If the mint changes composition what will it mean?

 

[gleaner1]

It might free up some sorely needed copper that the third world needs to fulfill their goal of dominating the world. But this aint gonna happen. If you have a big bunch of copper cents, you aint got Jack Diddly Squat.

 

[blackbeard1717]

I would love to use one of those Coin flattners that make shapes and symbols crush down pennies.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Why change the composition of the cent? They haven't used copper since 1982.

 

[diggummup]

Why change the composition of the cent? They haven't used copper since 1982.

Because even the zinc cents cost too much to make. Around 1.7 cents a piece I believe.

 

[Mzjavert]

Not all zinc pennies are the same. A guy at work dropped a couple of pennies and asked why they sounded different. I was pretty absorbed in my work, but I looked up long enough to say Pennies have been made from zinc since '83. He looked at the dates and they were both post '83. I got up from my desk. We dropped them again and they both sounded different. Now I wish I'd looked at those dates.

Oh well, I'm starting to separate my copper pennies.

 

[deathhare]

Aluminum is a better plan or ditch the cent altogether.

 

[kayden]

I hope they change it to wood so my detector dont know they are there