Are pennies worth more than scrap metal?
However the question about selling them for scrap is moot for two reasons. First a dealer would be paying wholesale and you’d need buckets and buckets of coins to make it worth their while to melt them, because scrap dealers need to work in bulk. Second and more importantly, it’s illegal to melt cents and nickels so any scrap dealer who dealt in them would be putting their job at serious risk.
