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To: Jewbacca

I had to use a calculator to verify it. You’d probably do better melting them down and pulling the copper out.

19 posted on 06/09/2021 9:36:35 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))

To: Seruzawa

"You’d probably do better melting them down and pulling the copper out."

Post 1982 a penny is only 2.5% copper the rest is zinc. Before 1982 they were 95% copper 5% zinc.

86 posted on 06/09/2021 10:54:23 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)

To: Seruzawa

1982 and earlier.....
About $2,360 in copper

122 posted on 06/09/2021 12:45:33 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)

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