by Morsecode » Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:04 pm
I also dumped all my cu '82 some time ago. I think it was in the neighborhood of $250 face. After that, I stopped separating them altogether...the sorting went that much quicker not having to deal with it.
Put yourself in a buyer's frame of mind: you have two CTU's to choose from. The 1st is 1959 thru 1981. The other is all copper dated 1982. They're both priced the same. It's a no-brainer.
Will any future buyer of copper cents just take your word for it that you weighed them? Would a coin store or pawn shop believe it?
Weighing them in the bag doesn't work. Too easy to deceive.
A copper ctu should weigh 31,000 grams +/-. You can get there by combining $80 face copper (24,880 grams) and $24.50 face zinc (6125 grams)...result, you'd be paying full ctu money for 55 lbs of copper vs 68 lbs.
I hate to admit it, but the guys who machine sort don't have to deal with this dilemma.
Let's Go Brandon