Around here instead of hoarding pennies crooks are just stealing copper wire out of a/c units. A local church has been robbed twice of it’s copper wire.
a bit more “lucrative” than pennies. I’d presume that if a copper penny pre-1982 is 95% copper, a pre-1982 OR a post-1982 strand of copper wire is near 100% copper.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote a few weeks back that thieves in California’s Central Valley and in his home town of Selma, CA are stealing the bronze memorial plaques from building cornerstones, historic markers, and war monuments. What a tragedy for the nation when we’ve come to this point.