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Shoulda converted into 3.60B American pennies

• quantified 6y ago
  At least you can spend them, but they’re worth less that $0.01 due to being mostly zinc these days.
  • okareaman 6y ago
    I looked it up before making my little joke. Did you know there are companies selling pre-1980 copper pennies in case the penny is eliminated and it becomes allowable to melt them down for copper? (98% or so) They are worth over a penny. It's a weird sort of futures contract.
    • quantified 6y ago
      I forgot the year of change-over but yes. They sound different and they age differently. I collected coins as a kid, I liked their heft in my (smaller) fingers. I’ve thought about hoarding older ones for copper but... insufficiently motivated, I’ll let someone in greater need do it.