>..copper shortage in the second world war... Steel wheat pennies, and more interestingly, .35 silver nickels (1942-1945). Today, spot for 1oz of copper is 0.

>..copper shortage in the second world war... Steel wheat pennies, and more interestingly, .35 silver nickels (1942-1945). Today, spot for 1oz of copper is 0.21 while silver is around 18.00 In the 1980s and around 2011, silver reached a spot price of near 50.00 per oz. It's been as low 4.00 per oz. I think the record high for copper was 5.00 per pound in 2021. Not certain though. Metal markets, particularly silver, are strange.