Time to dig through my pennies.
Only pre-1981 pennies are made of copper.
Post ‘81 they are made of zinc mostly.
There are 141 pre-81 pennies to the pound.
That works out to about three cents in melt value.
($0.028 each)
“Time to dig through my pennies.”
I had the same funny thought, so I did some research. Today, pennies are over 99% zinc, with a very thin copper plating. Prior to 1982, pennies were 95% copper, and there were roughly 145 pennies in a pound. So, if you have a jug full of pennies saved from 28 years ago, you can triple their value by melting them down.
so that is going to make pennies more valuable?