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Does anyone have any experience with melting brass Mexican coins (i.e., pre-1992 cinco centavos coins). I imagine it would be a pain to go through a large pile of Mexican coins to look for them, or would it? If you took the coins to a junkyard, do you think they would take them? I have very little now, but might have a way to accumulate, I'm guessing, 100-200# worth of them. Also, is there anything like a Ryedale that can be tweaked to sort the brass coins out from the others? Is there something other than the brass centavos (from Mexico or elsewhere) that would be worth setting aside for a possible meltdown?

Recyclersteve wrote:Does anyone have any experience with melting brass Mexican coins (i.e., pre-1992 cinco centavos coins). I imagine it would be a pain to go through a large pile of Mexican coins to look for them, or would it? If you took the coins to a junkyard, do you think they would take them? I have very little now, but might have a way to accumulate, I'm guessing, 100-200# worth of them. Also, is there anything like a Ryedale that can be tweaked to sort the brass coins out from the others? Is there something other than the brass centavos (from Mexico or elsewhere) that would be worth setting aside for a possible meltdown?

Brass cooks at about 1700f so melting would be easy. The problem is keeping good ventilation with the Zinc. I would also recommend doing 5-10# worth of ingots and see what the yard would pay before going all out Darth Melter on 200#.

Thx for the info- not planning on doing any melting myself.

I have scrapped them before and received full brass price, but I'm sure some yards are more picky than others