>>After reading this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5334880/ I think I better stop collecting coins…
>>I cannot understand WHY nobody wants to cash it. It is money after all!
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>Because it is 3.6 tons of copper and any bank will incur costs to handle it. What's in it for them? That's why they may do it for a fee.

So the same bank would incur no 'costs' if 10,000 people all walked in with 2 rolls of pennies and wanted to change them into a dollar bill?

You'd think that at least the U.S. mint would be interested, and possibly even obligated. And others too, considering a good many of those pennies are all real copper through and through as opposed to the zinc stuff of today.