If you're considering copper rounds as a metal play...don't. I went looking for copper bullion on the internet, and I found a guy with a really pretty website claiming copper is the "new silver" and how copper was "real money"--you know, all the stuff you see on the gold sites, except now he's selling copper. All well and good, but the same joker is selling one-pound copper bullion for around $12 and 66 pounds of copper for over $600. Right now the spot price of copper on the London Metals Exchange is floating in the $2-$5 per pound range. Something's not quite right here.
This depends on the quality of copper; analytical grade copper is more expensive; but generally speaking the cost of 7 g copper is not significant.
A Circulated 1983 US Cent is worth its face value.Starting in 1982 The US Mint changed the composition of cents from Copper to Copper-Plated Zinc due to the rise in cost of Copper.
A quarter never had 25 cents worth of copper in it. Quarters used to be made of roughly 25 cents worth of silver, but are now made of mostly copper due to cost reasons. The fact remains that a quarter is still worth 25 cents, and if you should so wish you could go and buy 25 cents worth of copper with it (a little more than two ounces of copper). Sorry I ment to say a quarter used to have 25 cents worth of silver in it now it has 2 cents worth of copper are you getting ripped off? I will reenter the question. Thanks.
The cost of minting them. Today's pennies are zinc (cheap) coated with a copper wash, and still cost more to make than they are worth.
with rising costs of copper and labor it cost more than a penny than a pennyis worth
the old copper cooler is worth 250
Howard Rounds Newcomb has written: 'United States copper cents, 1816-1857' -- subject(s): Cent
copper cost more to mine then aluminum so aluminum will cost less then copper cable.
Pre 1982 Lincoln cents are worth about 1.5 cents for the copper.
1963 COPPER penny is worth half a billion dollars.
@ 50 USD
Frankly, the number is in the millions of dollars. When you consider that ONE of the off-road dump trucks used to haul ore from the pit to the processing plant is $350,000,and that it will burn $500 worth of fuel an hour, the costs are staggering.