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Comment author: ike 23 December 2014 02:11:39AM 0 points [-]

That's only the newer pennies apparently, is it easy to get old pennies? You might chainload a huge bunch of pennies with a penny sorting machine and that might be worth it at a large enough scale.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 23 December 2014 01:53:55PM 0 points [-]

In your profit calculation, you also need to consider the cost of the energy used in melting the coins.