Thread: Pennies
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Old 07-01-2004, 12:24 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally posted by denim
It's been tried. The IRS won't accept payment in that form. Anyway, for the IRS, it should be 5 and 10 cent coins.

I'd suggest melting the coins down and selling them as ingots, but that's illegal.
Pennies are not pure copper. In fact, the proportion of copper in them is very very small. The resulting ingots would be useless, and they would be worth less than a quantity of pennies with equal weight.
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