I'm in my 60's and my son and I still separate all our copper pennies from the Zinc and the Wheaties from the rest, and I can't believe how many Wheaties we still find or even a silver dime or quarter once in a while. Pretty cool! I started stacking silver and gold a few years ago and now my son is also, and he even got his friends interested and now they get all excited about picking up a gold bar or coin or tubes of rounds , coins or 5-10 oz bars in silver. They are having the time of their lives making sure they can protect their wages against inflation. They see that what they can hold in their hand is the only thing which is truly theirs and never realized before that they can protect their wealth every time they exchange their paper for precious metals. I wish I would have started younger, my goodness, and if my grandfather born in 1898 stacked his silver starting way back when, by just keeping some change every time he got some I couldn't imagine how much silver he could have amassed? When he was a kid he used to deliver by horse drawn carriages or buggies, what a different time. There were still Army and Indian skirmishes still and cowboys, he used to tell me about the Trollies he used to run in the early 20th century, and where I live the tracks are still under the asphalt streets embedded in the old cobblestone roads. He was a Greyhound Bus driver and I remember him getting home from work and he had the coin changing machine they used to wear on their sides to give change to the passengers, it was always filled with all silver coins in all the denominations lol. When I was a kid in the early 60's we could still find Indian Head Nichols and Pennies. Love your show guys and God bless you and all your subscribers.
thats fun but the fact is copper isnt weighed in troy ounces, I mean you could have one troy ounce of copper just like you can have 1 troy ounce of feathers but when buying or selling coper its weighted using a standard ounce so interestingly enough if you buy copper rounds like many stacker do for fun it does NOT say troy ounce they are sold in 1 AVDP ounces....The AVDP ounce is the abbreviation for avoirdupois ounce (the U.S. standard ounce (oz.)
@cutlerylover I just thought it was interesting that when the government ultimately decided on the weight of the small cent in mid-1864, they decided to make it exactly one tenth of a troy ounce. I do know copper is typically priced in pounds and tons and is not struck in troy ounce rounds, other than for some collector novelty items.
@@ericl452 it still is an interesting observation you made a true stacker would think that, haha I wonder if its coincidence or not? did they design the penny by the weight or the dimensions? I genuinely do not know lol it would make sense if it was originally gold and the penny weighed 1/100th of a troy ounce and a gold dollar was exactly 1 troy ounce, haha but that would be an awfully small penny..
I keep copper pennys as well. The price is only going to go up. Like Dave said, for 1000’s of years, Gold, Silver and copper have been money. Coming a day when people are going to realize that
Been saving every copper cent i find in my box hunts for years. Up over $1200 in copper cents now. I reroll them back into the penny boxes to keep an easy count. Maybe 1 day, I'll cash them in. In the meantime, its fun to see a partial wall of copper boxes in my garage.
I started pulling out copper pennies in 2023. I'll get $25.00, a box, from bank. Started at around 25% we're copper, now it is down to 15%. 3 rolls of copper pennies are close to a pound.
I've only gotten copper rounds or goldbacks when I needed a small amount to meet the minimum for free shipping on an online purchase. So I have a few copper rounds. I've saved a few old pennies, but mighty few. I don't really collect them. I appreciate how informative this video is. Thanks, Yankee.
@@sm00thpursuit33 I'm not that knowledgeable, but it would take an awful lot of them to trade for a gold eagle. They aren't that collectible yet, if they ever will be, and while you can ask some dealers, I'm thinking you won't get much for them. Right now, they're sort of a novelty. Some states are starting to use silverbacks and goldbacks, but not that many....yet. Time will tell, but for now, I would by 1/10th oz. gold instead (if you can afford it) and work up. jmho
@@sm00thpursuit33If you’re talking about gradually buying enough goldbacks to sell them in order to buy a 1 oz Eagle, you’ll spend a LOT more fiat than if you had just saved it for the coin directly. If that makes sense.
@@sm00thpursuit33 I'm not seeing my reply here. Don't know what happened to it. Sorry. I'm not that knowledgeable about goldbacks. Some states are starting to use them as cash, but very few. You'd have to save up a LOT of goldbacks to buy a gold eagle, and you'd be paying higher premiums. If you want a 1 oz. eagle, I'd start with 1/10 oz. gold or as much as you can afford and trade up once you have a full oz. Or you could buy silver and trade up for gold. You'll still be paying higher premiums, but you wouldn't be paying as much as for goldbacks, and you'd hit your goals sooner. At this point, I'm not sure how much dealers want to pay for goldbacks since they're so new and not that well liked (harder for them to sell). You could call around and ask. I'd say that for now, they're still a novelty. I'd go with rounds, coins, and bars and work up to what you want.
I've been stacking copper for years... every time I go to my bank, I pick up 4 boxes of half's and one box of pennies just for the copper. The half's I look for silver... not as good as it use to be but it's a cheap hobby.
Great content! I remember the excitement when copper broke a dollar a pound in the 70's. Copper/brass might be thought of as small money, none the less it is still money and it can be found easily everywhere.
Have 200 lbs of copper pennies, been saving them for a couple decades and use to sort boxes from the bank. I also scrap and save all my no.1 copper and make 1 oz " bars" from flattened copper pipe and stamp them myself. I love Gold, like Silver but believe copper has a place in the stack also.
I've been roll-hunting pennies for 20+ years and plucking the "coppers" out. Regarding the '82s, I've found that about eight outta ten I come across, are the 95% copper versions. They made a metric sh!t ton of 95% coppers in '82. So, give them some love too, and hang on to 'em. For the newbies, you can do either the drop test- if it 'rings' it's copper. If it's a dull thud, it's a zincer. Or, visual test: if it has smooth, chocolatey surfaces, most likely it's copper. If it has bubbles, it's copper-plated zinc. Lastly, you can do the weight test. I think it's 3.1 grams for 95% copper, and 2.6 for the modern copper-plated zinc issues. Also. Canadian pennies, pre-94, I believe, have about a 98% copper purity to them. So greedily keep those too!🥉
I've been stacking copper cents for quite some time. I store them in med-sized ammo cans which hold 4000 cents or have a copper value of around $120 per ammo can and weigh just over 27 lbs. They stack quite well.
I enjoy metal detecting and I have found 1990s era cents that are rusted so badly that it is rare when I can get an actual dated one. Zinc don't last under the ground. I have found cents alongside quarters nickels and dimes from the eighties and the cents minted pre 1982 you can clean up really well. The newer ones are sometimes half gone from corrosion.
Ive been saving copper and brass since 2013. The wife started complaining of my piles, so i had to store them in 55 gallon drums to not make my garage look like a junk yard . I call it my retirement fund lol😅
i got educated today on the pennies, I thought 1982 pennies were still copper , but turns out only the 3.11 grams are copper , less then that are zink plated with copper , Thanks , now i have to go through my stack "o Pennies .LOL
You can drop the 1982s on a counter top or hard surface. If they ring, you have copper. The zinc ones with just make a dull thunk sound. Easiest way imo.
@ I don't know... a little $10 portable scale measures instantly down to the 100th of a gram and it's accurate. As fast as you can place them on the scale and flick them right (copper) or left (zinc). And you can listen to music or a YT show playing in the background.
I keep all my copper pennies in case the government does away with them as currency. At that point, it will be legal to melt down our copper pennies as bullion. I currently hold 400 pounds of copper pennies 😂
@YankeeStacking So I’m from the Kansas City area and I have an interesting tidbit for you. The old Actor, Ted Asher as Lou from the Mary Tyler Moore show, his brother had a scrapyard in KC KS called Asner Iron and Metal. He used to have bridge dwellers come work for beer at his shop and in exchange they would clean out the cars before crushing and remove all the coins from beneath the seats. I did a lot of business there and he, and I’m not joking, had 55gal drums FULL of copper Pennie’s. When I was last there he had 4 55gal drums of Pennie’s he kept in the back. He used to give me a 5th of Seagrams 7 when I’d go down and dump scrap for a company I worked for. Very cool. Imagine how much money were in all those drums.
Copper is one of my favourites to stack. I believe copper will 2-3X within the next 5-10 years. It's accessible and cheap and relatively liquid to exit. Copper is high in demand for industrial use and the majority of that copper comes from recycling. Copper is also a play on technology and AI as the advanced computing requires a lot of power and infrastructure which is highly reliant on copper to produce, distribute, store, and run this technology.
I been saving pennies and nickels since 2006 and buying peoples collections and bag after bag off ebay. Have not let any of it go. Silver was once what the copper price is. Copper trends silver price in the future? Think long and hard. What would it be like trading copper cents at $30 an ounce in todays dollars?
If copper is up to 4 a lb im going to the scrap yard Saturday. Been throwing scrap brass copper aluminum and lead in a corner in the back yard for about 5 years. Between the radiators and old pipes there's a pretty good pile back there
I get all my metal for free, but I do put in some work to recover it. I scrap out anything that has precious metals and some steel, from micro scrapping to plumbing fixtures. Brass, copper, aluminum, electronics with gold. At some point I'd like to melt the number 1 and 2 copper, brass and aluminum into ingots, but for now , I'm hording the good stuff. What isn't possible for me to refine I will sell to the scrap yards including number one bright copper. Of course I'm also collecting the copper pennies.
Bank of England is running out if gold. America just took back 82 billions worth a 70% increase in demand and delivery has gone from 4 days to 4 to 8 weeks !
Don't forget that some wheat pennies have significant numismatic value. Many years ago I had a complete Whitman Lincoln cent collection including a 1909-s VBD. That one penny is worth hundreds of dollars today in its worst grade.
Out of al the 1982 pennies I have found over the years, 75% of them were the copper ones. I used to use the Ping test to check if they were zinc or copper , but now I have a scale. I plan on making a magnetic penny sorter, where you roll pennies down an incline with a magnet on the end, the zinc ones fall straight off and the copper ones slow down a bit and fall short. 2 carefully placed jars and you have a 100% accurate penny sorter.
In Germany we have the proverb "Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist den Taler nicht wert." (In English: " Who doesn't value the penny isn't worth the Taler.") [Fun fact : The term "Dollar" comes from the German word "Taler"]
I wouldn't touch silverplate silverware, it's usually stainless or zinc under the plate, dishes and cups are usually brass or copper. I had bought a full box of silverplate at an online auction for $7 and i was using my grinder wheel to check if it was copper or brass, one was silver color, but didn't spark(stainless will spark with a grinding wheel) and I looked on the bottom and it was sterling. I buffed out the scratches and later sold it, it was a 10 oz. plate.
Ok so if you are always paying premiums, how do you collect metals outside of scrapping? If there is a fixed "price" for these metals, is there somewhere you can exchange money at this fixed rate for metals? Or is there also a fixed rate for people to purchase it at? Always been confused on this subject.
Very educational. I've purchased from SDB but I don't now because of their shipping. They had shipped metals to me USPS signature, then the post office just dropped them in the mailbox w/o getting my sig. I've never had that experience with Fedex.
I have 8 lbs. of pre-1981 copper pennies in my stack for barter purposes. I also have a bunch of the 35% silver war nickels for barter as they are the smallest fractional silver coin our government made.
hitting construction or demolition sites and collecting copper and electronics is a good way to stack if you can stript it and melt it down into bars. well worth it...
The only time penny's were copper was 1793 Thur 1837. In 1982 the penny has 2%5 percent copper!!! I don't understand why people keep pennies copper or not!!!
I save all my coins up. Eventually when I get a decent amount I go through them and get out all the copper pennies and any silver thats in there. I have a bit of silver and a hefty amount of copper. You know what you can make out of the copper? Brass! Brass is mainly copper(70%) and zinc(30%). We all know what brass is good for :) When times get rough Im sure Copper/Brass will be in demand. Remember steel pennies during ww2? They needed to conserve copper for the war effort. During WW1 copper prices skyrocketed. In the decades around ww2 copper prices steadily increased pretty well also. Save ur copper pennies folks!!! Pre 1982 are copper. Some 1982 are copper and some are zinc.
Copper cents are a predetermined copper weight and can be used to round out barter exchanges. The copper cent is the only real money in circulation……..and the occasional silver coin a lucky one may receive. I believe nickels now fall into this category as well.
I always see silverware, that's plated in the thrift stores. I normally pass on it. If it's $1 then it's a deal. It's mostly brass or copper under the silver plated part.
I stack US Cents pre 82 , because if we did for some reason have a SHTF and went back to Gold and Silver , Copper would be the way to make change for Silver . At least it has been in the past .
We already have C40 cities and the policies implemented that come from the same peoples that make all of this on purpose, so cashless society is definitely coming worldwide, stacking🪙is the obvious answer.
We already have C40 cities and the policies that come with them, so cashless society is definitely coming worldwide, stacking🪙is the obvious answer, i can't even say more without getting suppressed.
Yeah… have about $400 in copper cents… but remember they want to get rid of the 1C? And even the 5C… so you get screwed as… guess what prices will do? Everything will be rounded UP to nearest dime… you cannot melt and scrap penny… you can use it for education and art… but not scrap… So glad he pointed out Copper is valued by lbs… not oz…
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I'm in my 60's and my son and I still separate all our copper pennies from the Zinc and the Wheaties from the rest, and I can't believe how many Wheaties we still find or even a silver dime or quarter once in a while. Pretty cool! I started stacking silver and gold a few years ago and now my son is also, and he even got his friends interested and now they get all excited about picking up a gold bar or coin or tubes of rounds , coins or 5-10 oz bars in silver. They are having the time of their lives making sure they can protect their wages against inflation. They see that what they can hold in their hand is the only thing which is truly theirs and never realized before that they can protect their wealth every time they exchange their paper for precious metals. I wish I would have started younger, my goodness, and if my grandfather born in 1898 stacked his silver starting way back when, by just keeping some change every time he got some I couldn't imagine how much silver he could have amassed? When he was a kid he used to deliver by horse drawn carriages or buggies, what a different time. There were still Army and Indian skirmishes still and cowboys, he used to tell me about the Trollies he used to run in the early 20th century, and where I live the tracks are still under the asphalt streets embedded in the old cobblestone roads. He was a Greyhound Bus driver and I remember him getting home from work and he had the coin changing machine they used to wear on their sides to give change to the passengers, it was always filled with all silver coins in all the denominations lol. When I was a kid in the early 60's we could still find Indian Head Nichols and Pennies. Love your show guys and God bless you and all your subscribers.
@theseedistheword3603 I have literally never once found a silver coin? Not in hunts or anything! That's awesome dude! Wish I could do the same
Fun fact. Copper cents minted prior to mid-1982 weigh 3.11 grams, which means 10 of them weigh 31.1 grams, which is exactly one troy ounce.
@@ericl452 that's good to know. I got a bunch
thats fun but the fact is copper isnt weighed in troy ounces, I mean you could have one troy ounce of copper just like you can have 1 troy ounce of feathers but when buying or selling coper its weighted using a standard ounce so interestingly enough if you buy copper rounds like many stacker do for fun it does NOT say troy ounce they are sold in 1 AVDP ounces....The AVDP ounce is the abbreviation for avoirdupois ounce (the U.S. standard ounce (oz.)
@cutlerylover I just thought it was interesting that when the government ultimately decided on the weight of the small cent in mid-1864, they decided to make it exactly one tenth of a troy ounce. I do know copper is typically priced in pounds and tons and is not struck in troy ounce rounds, other than for some collector novelty items.
@@ericl452 it still is an interesting observation you made a true stacker would think that, haha I wonder if its coincidence or not? did they design the penny by the weight or the dimensions? I genuinely do not know lol it would make sense if it was originally gold and the penny weighed 1/100th of a troy ounce and a gold dollar was exactly 1 troy ounce, haha but that would be an awfully small penny..
You can use ten cents to weigh an ounce on a mechanical scale.
Man Silver Dave really goes down the rabbit hole. I like it! 🐸👍 Wish there was a Silver Dave and Mr. Tim up my way!
As an electrician, I stack every scrap of copper wire. It has helped me through several rough patches in the past.
A lot of us are just on the hush. Plugging away. Nothing to see here. 👀
Thank you yankee I got my silver dime I won on the wheel in the mail yesterday..enjoy all you videos.exspesialy with tim. Keek on stackin...👍🙏✌️🇺🇸
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I keep copper pennys as well. The price is only going to go up. Like Dave said, for 1000’s of years, Gold, Silver and copper have been money. Coming a day when people are going to realize that
Been saving every copper cent i find in my box hunts for years. Up over $1200 in copper cents now. I reroll them back into the penny boxes to keep an easy count. Maybe 1 day, I'll cash them in. In the meantime, its fun to see a partial wall of copper boxes in my garage.
I started pulling out copper pennies in 2023. I'll get $25.00, a box, from bank. Started at around 25% we're copper, now it is down to 15%. 3 rolls of copper pennies are close to a pound.
I've only gotten copper rounds or goldbacks when I needed a small amount to meet the minimum for free shipping on an online purchase. So I have a few copper rounds. I've saved a few old pennies, but mighty few. I don't really collect them. I appreciate how informative this video is. Thanks, Yankee.
How knowledgeable are you on the Goldbacks? Could one work there way up to a gold eagle once saving enough goldback?
@@sm00thpursuit33 I'm not that knowledgeable, but it would take an awful lot of them to trade for a gold eagle. They aren't that collectible yet, if they ever will be, and while you can ask some dealers, I'm thinking you won't get much for them. Right now, they're sort of a novelty. Some states are starting to use silverbacks and goldbacks, but not that many....yet. Time will tell, but for now, I would by 1/10th oz. gold instead (if you can afford it) and work up. jmho
@@sm00thpursuit33If you’re talking about gradually buying enough goldbacks to sell them in order to buy a 1 oz Eagle, you’ll spend a LOT more fiat than if you had just saved it for the coin directly. If that makes sense.
@@sm00thpursuit33 I'm not seeing my reply here. Don't know what happened to it. Sorry. I'm not that knowledgeable about goldbacks. Some states are starting to use them as cash, but very few. You'd have to save up a LOT of goldbacks to buy a gold eagle, and you'd be paying higher premiums. If you want a 1 oz. eagle, I'd start with 1/10 oz. gold or as much as you can afford and trade up once you have a full oz. Or you could buy silver and trade up for gold. You'll still be paying higher premiums, but you wouldn't be paying as much as for goldbacks, and you'd hit your goals sooner. At this point, I'm not sure how much dealers want to pay for goldbacks since they're so new and not that well liked (harder for them to sell). You could call around and ask. I'd say that for now, they're still a novelty. I'd go with rounds, coins, and bars and work up to what you want.
I've been stacking copper for years... every time I go to my bank, I pick up 4 boxes of half's and one box of pennies just for the copper. The half's I look for silver... not as good as it use to be but it's a cheap hobby.
Thank you Bill! It is good seeing you and to see a true American!
Great content! I remember the excitement when copper broke a dollar a pound in the 70's. Copper/brass might be thought of as small money, none the less it is still money and it can be found easily everywhere.
I bought a automatic cent sorter off of eBay and I’ll say that’s the best investment I did except for gold & silver in 2024
Have 200 lbs of copper pennies, been saving them for a couple decades and use to sort boxes from the bank. I also scrap and save all my no.1 copper and make 1 oz " bars" from flattened copper pipe and stamp them myself. I love Gold, like Silver but believe copper has a place in the stack also.
my stacking journey began with platinum and copper. every few months i get copper to add to the stack mostly for my crucible to melt and cast
Always learn something new from Dave. He is so passionate about what he does. Very interesting.
Someone is spending wheat pennies. I've started getting them in change. 😊
Copper is a Great metal and it's valuable and it looks really beautiful. Anyone can stack it too.
I've been roll-hunting pennies for 20+ years and plucking the "coppers" out. Regarding the '82s, I've found that about eight outta ten I come across, are the 95% copper versions. They made a metric sh!t ton of 95% coppers in '82. So, give them some love too, and hang on to 'em. For the newbies, you can do either the drop test- if it 'rings' it's copper. If it's a dull thud, it's a zincer. Or, visual test: if it has smooth, chocolatey surfaces, most likely it's copper. If it has bubbles, it's copper-plated zinc. Lastly, you can do the weight test. I think it's 3.1 grams for 95% copper, and 2.6 for the modern copper-plated zinc issues.
Also. Canadian pennies, pre-94, I believe, have about a 98% copper purity to them. So greedily keep those too!🥉
I separate all my copper pennies from the Zinc, been doing it for many years
Hi Yankee great show, copper is very heavy and hard to move in a hurry!!!
I've been stacking copper cents for quite some time. I store them in med-sized ammo cans which hold 4000 cents or have a copper value of around $120 per ammo can and weigh just over 27 lbs. They stack quite well.
I enjoy metal detecting and I have found 1990s era cents that are rusted so badly that it is rare when I can get an actual dated one. Zinc don't last under the ground. I have found cents alongside quarters nickels and dimes from the eighties and the cents minted pre 1982 you can clean up really well. The newer ones are sometimes half gone from corrosion.
You explained it well silver Dave.
Ive been saving copper and brass since 2013. The wife started complaining of my piles, so i had to store them in 55 gallon drums to not make my garage look like a junk yard . I call it my retirement fund lol😅
i got educated today on the pennies, I thought 1982 pennies were still copper , but turns out only the 3.11 grams are copper , less then that are zink plated with copper , Thanks , now i have to go through my stack "o Pennies .LOL
Weigh the 1982 cents. A little more than half are 95% copper.
You can drop the 1982s on a counter top or hard surface. If they ring, you have copper. The zinc ones with just make a dull thunk sound. Easiest way imo.
@ I don't know... a little $10 portable scale measures instantly down to the 100th of a gram and it's accurate. As fast as you can place them on the scale and flick them right (copper) or left (zinc). And you can listen to music or a YT show playing in the background.
Awesome characters both the seller and the buyer!
Just started doing this about 2 weeks ago and will do from here on..
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I stack copper I have 27 full boxes of 90% pennies too Silver Dave is the man
95%
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Copper cents and all nickels too!
Thanks for the info Silver Dave
Love this channel , He is so knowledgeable, Love to learn xx he has so much information. x
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I keep all my copper pennies in case the government does away with them as currency. At that point, it will be legal to melt down our copper pennies as bullion. I currently hold 400 pounds of copper pennies 😂
If my math is correct thats $1,286.17.
@YankeeStacking So I’m from the Kansas City area and I have an interesting tidbit for you. The old Actor, Ted Asher as Lou from the Mary Tyler Moore show, his brother had a scrapyard in KC KS called Asner Iron and Metal. He used to have bridge dwellers come work for beer at his shop and in exchange they would clean out the cars before crushing and remove all the coins from beneath the seats. I did a lot of business there and he, and I’m not joking, had 55gal drums FULL of copper Pennie’s. When I was last there he had 4 55gal drums of Pennie’s he kept in the back. He used to give me a 5th of Seagrams 7 when I’d go down and dump scrap for a company I worked for. Very cool. Imagine how much money were in all those drums.
That was cool 😎 to see.
I do some scrapping myself.
I dig, turning my brass into silver.
Cheers ☕️ Yankee.
Copper is one of my favourites to stack. I believe copper will 2-3X within the next 5-10 years. It's accessible and cheap and relatively liquid to exit. Copper is high in demand for industrial use and the majority of that copper comes from recycling. Copper is also a play on technology and AI as the advanced computing requires a lot of power and infrastructure which is highly reliant on copper to produce, distribute, store, and run this technology.
I love Dave's passion.
Fun show. Thank you ❤️🙏
I work in new construction housing and walk around and pick up all the copper left over from the plumbers and electricians.
Great podcast, very informative!❤
I been saving pennies and nickels since 2006 and buying peoples collections and bag after bag off ebay. Have not let any of it go. Silver was once what the copper price is. Copper trends silver price in the future? Think long and hard. What would it be like trading copper cents at $30 an ounce in todays dollars?
If copper is up to 4 a lb im going to the scrap yard Saturday. Been throwing scrap brass copper aluminum and lead in a corner in the back yard for about 5 years. Between the radiators and old pipes there's a pretty good pile back there
I get all my metal for free, but I do put in some work to recover it. I scrap out anything that has precious metals and some steel, from micro scrapping to plumbing fixtures. Brass, copper, aluminum, electronics with gold.
At some point I'd like to melt the number 1 and 2 copper, brass and aluminum into ingots, but for now , I'm hording the good stuff. What isn't possible for me to refine I will sell to the scrap yards including number one bright copper. Of course I'm also collecting the copper pennies.
Great video my friend
Bank of England is running out if gold. America just took back 82 billions worth a 70% increase in demand and delivery has gone from 4 days to 4 to 8 weeks !
I melt down my copper into bars and stack it to a certain point, then sell it for a profit and use that to buy silver and gold.
The mint is taking copper cents out of circulation and using them to plate new zinc cents from what i was told.
Of course I pull copper cents from my pocket change, I think it's crazy not to!
I have a money clip marked Sterling pla is that Sterling plate?
Good on him!
Thanks Yankee 👍
You know nickles are made of 3/4 copper
Ya 3cent worth😅
The guy with the pennies is winning in life. He has a gold chain.
Don't forget that some wheat pennies have significant numismatic value. Many years ago I had a complete Whitman Lincoln cent collection including a 1909-s VBD. That one penny is worth hundreds of dollars today in its worst grade.
man how cool is this bullion dealer?
I stack copper. I love it. I melt it into art pieces and bullion bars. Im hoarding it along with copper cents.
I started buying copper pennie rolls since 70's.. its 2025.. lol😂😂😂. Including silver of all sorts.. 😂😂
If the copper is on someone’s roof…it should be offered to them…it belongs to them just like a gold crown at a dentist’s…take um home with you!!!😮
My car dealership did not offer my catalytic converter to me
Out of al the 1982 pennies I have found over the years, 75% of them were the copper ones. I used to use the Ping test to check if they were zinc or copper , but now I have a scale. I plan on making a magnetic penny sorter, where you roll pennies down an incline with a magnet on the end, the zinc ones fall straight off and the copper ones slow down a bit and fall short. 2 carefully placed jars and you have a 100% accurate penny sorter.
LOL,,,,, I am coin hunting while I watch your videos Yankee! I buy rolls every week for years now
This is very interesting!
Never seen someone buy plate
A lot of times the silver plate has copper under it
In Germany we have the proverb "Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist den Taler nicht wert." (In English: "
Who doesn't value the penny isn't worth the Taler.") [Fun fact : The term "Dollar" comes from the German word "Taler"]
I’ve been stacking some copper for years because with the electrical vehicles and laws I figured it would just skyrocket
This is the video, I wanted to see 😊.
I wouldn't touch silverplate silverware, it's usually stainless or zinc under the plate, dishes and cups are usually brass or copper. I had bought a full box of silverplate at an online auction for $7 and i was using my grinder wheel to check if it was copper or brass, one was silver color, but didn't spark(stainless will spark with a grinding wheel) and I looked on the bottom and it was sterling. I buffed out the scratches and later sold it, it was a 10 oz. plate.
Ok so if you are always paying premiums, how do you collect metals outside of scrapping? If there is a fixed "price" for these metals, is there somewhere you can exchange money at this fixed rate for metals? Or is there also a fixed rate for people to purchase it at? Always been confused on this subject.
And of course outside of claiming a mining stake with the bureau of land management 😄
Very educational. I've purchased from SDB but I don't now because of their shipping. They had shipped metals to me USPS signature, then the post office just dropped them in the mailbox w/o getting my sig. I've never had that experience with Fedex.
Blame USPS, not the online bullion dealer. This could (and has) happen to ANY of them!
Love both those guys passion
I love the smell of FOMO in the morning
I pick up every penny I find. And sort them.
"we just buy them" 🤣
Some older Japanese silver items are marked "pure silver" which is .950
I have 8 lbs. of pre-1981 copper pennies in my stack for barter purposes. I also have a bunch of the 35% silver war nickels for barter as they are the smallest fractional silver coin our
government made.
hitting construction or demolition sites and collecting copper and electronics is a good way to stack if you can stript it and melt it down into bars. well worth it...
At least he is being resourceful.
The only time penny's were copper was 1793 Thur 1837. In 1982 the penny has 2%5 percent copper!!! I don't understand why people keep pennies copper or not!!!
YES, THE LION 🦁 STAMP HERE IN THE UK 🇬🇧 MEANS STERLING SILVER!👍👍
I save all my coins up. Eventually when I get a decent amount I go through them and get out all the copper pennies and any silver thats in there. I have a bit of silver and a hefty amount of copper. You know what you can make out of the copper? Brass! Brass is mainly copper(70%) and zinc(30%). We all know what brass is good for :) When times get rough Im sure Copper/Brass will be in demand.
Remember steel pennies during ww2? They needed to conserve copper for the war effort. During WW1 copper prices skyrocketed. In the decades around ww2 copper prices steadily increased pretty well also. Save ur copper pennies folks!!! Pre 1982 are copper. Some 1982 are copper and some are zinc.
Copper cents are a predetermined copper weight and can be used to round out barter exchanges. The copper cent is the only real money in circulation……..and the occasional silver coin a lucky one may receive.
I believe nickels now fall into this category as well.
I always see silverware, that's plated in the thrift stores. I normally pass on it. If it's $1 then it's a deal. It's mostly brass or copper under the silver plated part.
I always put old pennies and put them aside. I believe it’s 1982 and older
He shoulda got a tube of 1/10 silver rounds LSM.
I stack US Cents pre 82 , because if we did for some reason have a SHTF and went back to Gold and Silver , Copper would be the way to make change for Silver . At least it has been in the past .
Cool, THANKS AGAIN GENTS!
I just love the looks of cleaned COPPA ..
I have been collecting copper pennies for a long time.
He was talking about The beast system where no one can buy or sell without a mark on the right hand or forhead.
Yup! But a US economic collapse could happen long before that.
We already have C40 cities and the policies implemented that come from the same peoples that make all of this on purpose, so cashless society is definitely coming worldwide, stacking🪙is the obvious answer.
We already have C40 cities and the policies that come with them, so cashless society is definitely coming worldwide, stacking🪙is the obvious answer, i can't even say more without getting suppressed.
How much silver is in silver plate by percent? I didn't realize it was worth refining.
I do, Yankee! Copper
I have been stacking copper cents since 1990, have about 500 lbs,'81 & under, weighed every 1982 (1/2 are copper) and not counting my wheaties, I'm 78
Me too always keep the copper
Yeah… have about $400 in copper cents… but remember they want to get rid of the 1C? And even the 5C… so you get screwed as… guess what prices will do? Everything will be rounded UP to nearest dime…
you cannot melt and scrap penny… you can use it for education and art… but not scrap…
So glad he pointed out Copper is valued by lbs… not oz…