[C210N]

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.

[Ditter]

Apparently copper wire is very lucrative, thieves are robbing churches and schools mostly I presume because they can find time when “no one is at home”. Then a sleazy looking guy runs a TV ad late at night advertising that he pays good money for metals (including copper). Maybe the cops need to do some kind of sting operation on the sleazy guy or just wait around the corner for the copper thieves to come to him and get both of them. One for selling stolen property the other for buying it.

[mountn man]

Depends what you mean by lucrative.