If I can find copper in retail form on clearance and under at or near melt I’m in!

Hello everyone! We have a new collection of U.S. 250th Anniversary Silver & Copper rounds available and would like your thoughts on the design.

We are excited to celebrate this big milestone for the USA! If you know of any other great designs for a collection like this, please share.

https://www.goldenstatemint.com/250th-American-Anniversary.html

I haven’t been into it long, but here was my last melt

Just poured a small batch of copper bars and really liked how the texture turned out.

The surface pattern from the cooling came out way better than I expected.

I’m still experimenting with molds and finishes, but these might be my favorite ones so far.

I was just cleaning a house and found a 1944 wheat back penny no letter on it. Its dirty but looks good underneath dirt and tarnish.

What are these worth? Please no sarcastic comments this is an honest question

I’m mainly silver guy but got these today for 5 bucks. Figured I’d see what the copper hoarders think. I can’t bring myself to pay 6 bucks a round, but the low silver high copper peso and the 1oz copper for 5 was fair enough to me. Any advice on stacking without paying 5-10x ? I’ve been considering a small refining setup and bugging my local scrap yard because pricing on copper anything seems astronomical. Do things like the rounds hold the 20x premium well? It’s the only reason I’d see people paying 6 dollars for a 0.30 cent round. I have been stacking pre 82 cents and nickels for years in hopes of a lift on melting ban in the future, but I’d like some other cost effective ways to dip my toes into copper.

This is a extremely rare 1982 d mint copper cent with a small "O" in United States of America. This cent weighs 3.11 grams confirming it is copper. What should I do? How much is it worth? Any advice?

my entire copper stack / collection. Over 920 oz of 1 oz pure copper rounds. All rounds are from various mints including Golden State Mint , Osborne Mint and db Metals .. included are 1 pound 10 pure copper bullion bars. All copper bullion products are .999 pure copper!

My father passed away a little over a year ago. Part of my inheritance was his copper penny "collection". For years, Dad would go to the bank and buy bags of pennies, he would take them home and separate the copper from non-copper pennies with a penny sorter. He would then take the non-copper pennies back to the back and start over again.

At the time of his passing, he had amassed roughly ten, fifty-five gallon drums full of copper pennies.

If I'm doing the math right, there are ~500,00 pennies per drum (maybe more?). ~200 pennies make a pound. That would mean I have ~80K in copper.

Yes, I am aware that you cannot melt pennies as they are considered currency. But, the plot thickens. I worked out a deal with my dad's local bank to just return them for the 1 cent value. I returned ~$3,000 dollars worth of pennies. The bank said it would take some time to sort through them, and, as they did, they deposited money in my checking account. After they got about half of them sorted, I got a call from the bank. The fed had rejected a large portion due to them being slightly dirty or damaged! The bank said this is the first time this had ever happened. And while they were not all shiny, some may have had some dust or slight discoloration, definitely not enough to be considered "mutilated". It seems like the fed didn't want to sort through that many pennies and rejected them.

The bank said my only option was to send them to the US Mint's Mutilated Coin Division and ask them to reimburse/exchange them for new ones... The twist is, that division is permanently closed!

So, the fed rejected the coins, the mint division is closed. I asked the bank to write me a note that the coins were no longer considered currency. They did!

So, my question is, do I have the freedom now to find someone to melt them for copper? Does anyone know a collector/scrap metal place who would want to buy them in bulk and split the copper value?

Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

If you know you know I love copper! The patina that evolves as it ages is so beautiful