I Bought $250k Worth of Physical Nickels

(twitter.com)

23 points | by Anon84 4 hours ago

14 comments

  • nativeit 4 hours ago
    "One side note, and it really irks me, it seems to be a legislative reaction to some morons increasingly wanting to melt Cents and Nickels. It is now illegal to melt them. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always thought that the mindset of melting coins to make a profit never made an ounce of sense. It costs money to transfer a globally recognized coin with a known metallic composition, into a bar or round, and to have that object assayed. It’s the undertaking of an idiot. And yet, untold millions of silver coins have been reduced to bars and rounds. Friggin’ idiots."

    Some person on Quora, for whatever that's worth.

  • olalonde 3 hours ago
    This is almost certainly a troll account and not real. Also, like many pointed out, melting US coins is illegal.
  • gry 3 hours ago
    Curious to know how buying a pizza with tip in [Florida](https://floridianpress.com/2025/05/desantis-approves-law-all...) with [10 dimes pre-1964](https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/series-detail.aspx?MVDet...) goes.

    Joking aside, not a bad bet.

  • jit_hacker 4 hours ago
    Fun fact, it's not only legal to melt pre-1964 currency, it was often encouraged as a way for currency to hold its value.

    Pennies and Nickels do not fall into that bucket, however.

  • gorfian_robot 4 hours ago
    I've considered getting $10k in pennies for an art project ...
  • ribs 3 hours ago
    The one account I know that follows this account is @chasedownloads aka Chase Passive Income, which is a parody of a certain kind of entrepreneur, very much not real.

    This is not real. No one associated with this account (or, probably, any account) has bought these nickels.

    • Jach 3 hours ago
      The picture isn't even his, I just searched "box of nickels" to see if it's standard to have such an unremarkable looking box and this ebay listing showed up with the same picture: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275972601184

      Good for him I guess that he'll probably make a couple hundred bucks from twitter impressions. I regret spending any attention on this, flagged and blocked...

    • ribs 3 hours ago
      I feel like I must be telling everyone something they already know…please tell me I am
      • wmf 2 hours ago
        I saw this on Twitter and it sounds extremely fake. As for the replies, it's hard to tell if people are playing along or actually believe it.
  • nativeit 4 hours ago
    I considered pasting the whole shebang here, but rather, just Google "defacing currency".
  • turtlebits 4 hours ago
    Holding that much cash is already insane, considering inflation. In coins? Huge liquidity problem. Good luck finding enough buyers to make 10-20 cents off a single coin.
  • BobbyTables2 4 hours ago
    Tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single…
    • gorgoiler 3 hours ago
      Ah, but you’re mistaken in thinking that this kind of tinkering ends for good once love begins. It simply goes away for a bit!

      The stages of life:

      tinkering (!in love)

      !tinkering (in love)

      tinkering again (in love)

      The third stage usually involves a shed or hacker space or workshop in order to maintain the love state, unless one is lucky enough to have a co-tinkerer as a partner :)

  • more_corn 4 hours ago
    I call bullshit.
  • drslick 4 hours ago
    [dead]