Who has copper bars in their collection?

InternetJunky · April 12, 2011 11:25PM

Will copper ever become as "precious" as silver? Load up on it now and hopefully be able to chuckle with a big beer belly 25 years from now sitting in vast amounts of riches at a local strip club?

BTW, I'm guilty of saving pre-82 copper cents.

AUandAG · April 13, 2011 12:37AM

I would never venture to guess what the future will bring, but isn't copper
extremely plentiful? I don't think it gets used up like silver and is already
being recycled.
So, copper bars are a novelty and make for great door stops. They do get
nice patinas, however.

bob

secondrepublic · April 13, 2011 12:45AM

Copper bars, no.

But I do pull the pre-82 copper cents out of circulation.

mkman123 · April 13, 2011 2:29AM

I've got some pre 82 pennies but no copper bars.

gdavis70 · April 13, 2011 2:58AM

I bought a 1 Kilo copper bar for a novelty... I paid double spot but it was less than a decent lunch so I wasn't to bothered.

If the time comes when I can sell that bar for a profit I won't need to because my gold and silver will have crushed...

MoneyLA · April 13, 2011 3:45AM

Ive been stashing away pre 82 cents for years now. I also pick up post 81 cents off of sidewalks for the same reasoning...

a penny picked up is a penny in your pocket. a pre 82 penny stashed away could be 3-cents in your pocket.

but with penny melting and exporting banned will there ever be a "real market" for copper cents? and will the ban ever be lifted?

piecesofme · April 13, 2011 3:50AM

I'm guilty of saving pre-82 copper cents

I am the Chairman of that Board.

ps, running out of room though lol.

jmski52 · April 13, 2011 3:52AM

I've got some copper tubing laying around here somewhere...

Baley · April 13, 2011 4:59AM

I thought about hoarding copper but decided that space-wise as well as speculation-wise, it was better to hoard steel in the form knives, axes, saws, razor blades, and arrowheads

Baley · April 13, 2011 5:03AM

files, keys, wire of several sizes, wrenches and other tools, hammers regular and sledge, crowbars, pickaxes, gears, nails, screws, mending plates

Baley · April 13, 2011 5:04AM

springs, pins and needles, fishhooks, fasteners of all kinds, lengths of chain

ksammut · April 13, 2011 5:11AM

I purchased a copper sorting cent machine recently so my 9 year old could sort through rolls faster.

66Tbird · April 13, 2011 7:08AM

When copper took off I had to sort the junk I had. With the law the way it is now parting for profit is not going to happen on any big scale. But it was a fun challenge and it worked.
I'd built two sorters, one used a comparator and looked a lot like this unit in This video The first guy I showed it to took it off my hands rather quickly. His wife hates me

The first sorter was a mechanically driven device that weighed each coin then dropped it in the correct place. It was cut from 1/8'' lite ply and ran on a geared motor. It finally warped out of shape and no longer worked but it was hypnotizing to watch. Unfortunately I lost the cnc file, video, and plan in a hard drive failure but I still had the concept drawing on another sys.. I could do it again if needed but the comparator version was way faster by a factor of 100x. If I did do another it would be plexi of some flavor cut via a friends laser.

gnomeater · April 15, 2011 1:30AM

I am guitly of keeping pre-82s. There is a fairly vibrant trade in copper pennies online. Though they don't seem to really be getting near their "market" copper value. Penny Bullion Index

Who has copper bars in their collection?

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