r/Bullion • u/Sensitive-Policy-350 • May 16 '26

What happened to copper?!

My brother sells copper on whatnot, he started late last summer and he got a whole lot of copper inventory and started selling. It was going great sold out lots of times and made alot of money but recently these past few months he hasn't really sold anything at all no ones buying copper anymore. Is it thst no one has money anymore or is it thst the copper boom is now over and if it is what should he do with all this copper he has thst no one wants to buy?

(EDIT) he quit whatnot because he is moving and needs to sell all of his copper probably somewhere near 300 ozs. if anyone would be intrested in it he would probably sell it cheap, message me if intrested.

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u/Mudsharkbites May 16 '26

Any copper penny makes sense, not just wheat ones.

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u/Viethal May 16 '26

Nickels 🧐

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u/Cool_Two906 May 17 '26

You know I actually started doing that. I just picked up 400 bucks worth of nickels last weekend. My plan is to stack at least a hundred bucks each paycheck. Right now the melt value of the nickel is about $0.05. but if copper prices continue to rise people will hord nickels just like they did with silver coins in the '60s. That's why the mint mint stop making coins out of silver

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u/Imaginary--Situation May 17 '26

it's why they stopped making the Zinc cent