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Please turn in your "spare change" that clogs your space. It could be better invested and would reduce the metal consumption by the US Treasury, and would save the government more money than the entire Rosemont payroll over the life of the mine.

Read about and support the new HR-5512 act in congress read about HR 5512 - the Coin Modernization and Taxpayer Savings Act of 2008

Interesting points made in the bill:

"Given the current cost to make a penny and volume of pennies minted, by simply reducing penny production costs to face value, the United States will save nearly $600,000,000 dollars in the next 10 years alone."

"Commodity metal prices are often cyclical in nature, and can be inflated by speculation, so it is important that a solid trend in the rising price of a commodity metal be established before any change in the metal content of a coin is made."

From the Copper.org report in 2001 Read the entire report

Sheet, Strip and Plate
These products make up about 16 percent, some 1.5 billion pounds, of all copper-containing products consumed in the United States in 1999. That represents a 13 percent move upward from the previous year and a general upward trend averaging 5.2 percent annually since 1992. The increase is due largely to coinage production by the U.S. Mint and an accelerated demand for electronics and building construction. Coinage, alone, grew an impressive 86 percent in one year, making it the second largest market in this product category, attributable mainly to the new state quarters and the new dollar coins. Architectural product numbers, up 12 percent from 1999, continue at near record levels.

More Coin Facts

The 1909-1982 Cent is 95% copper. Current value of materials is almost 2.5 cents

The 1946-2008 Jefferson nickel is 75% copper Current value of materials is just over 6 cents

To learn about the value of all coins click here

it takes 154 pennies made from 1909 to 1982 for a pound of copper , for pennies made after 1982 it takes 7296 for a pound of copper. 91 Jefferson nickels contain a pound of copper Click here to find out

Coin Production Facts To see all years production figures click here

2007 Circulating Coin Production (in millions) January 2007 through December 2007
	1 ¢	5 ¢	10 ¢	25 ¢	50 ¢	1 $ - GD	$1 Coin	Total:
Denver	3638.80 M	626.16 M	1042.00 M	1456.24 M	4.10 M	5.74 M	468.23 M	7241.27 M
Philadelphia	3762.40 M	571.68 M	1047.50 M	1340.40 M	4.10 M	3.64 M	474.88 M	7204.60 M
Total:	7401.20 M	1197.84 M	2089.50 M	2796.64 M	8.20 M	9.38 M	943.11 M	14445.87 M
$1 Coin – Presidential $1 Coin GD - Sacagawea / Golden Dollar

Pennies after 1982
Number per pound	182.4
percent copper	2.50%
number pennys for pound of copper	7,296.00
Pennies produced in 2007	7,401,000,000
Lbs copper used in 2007 penny production	1,014,391.45

Pennies from 1909 to 1982
Number per pound	147.0967742
percent copper	95.00%
number pennys for pound of copper	154.8387097


Jefferson Nickels
Number per pound	91.2
percent copper	75.00%
number nichels for pound of copper	121.6
nickels produced in 2007	1,197,000,000.00
Lbs copper used in 2007nickel production	9,843,750.00


2007 total Lbs of copper used in production of pennies and nickels	10,858,141.45

Total Pennies produced 1983-2007	185,249,477,634
Total pounds of copper used	25,390,553

Total Pennies produced 1909-1982	184,114,360,036
Total pounds of copper used	1,189,071,909

Total Jefferson nickels produced	51,660,600,017
Total pounds of copper used	424,840,461

Total pounds of copper used	1,639,302,923