Interesting facts about Pennies, the US CURRENCY

People do scrap them?

Originally Posted by Scrap man

No. It's illegal to destroy national currency

I got to wondering how the penny press machines get around it...found this.

"IT'S LEGAL!
U.S. Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331: Prohibits among other things, fraudulent alteration and mutilation of coins. This statue does not, however, prohibit the mutilation of coins if done without fraudulent intent if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently."

http://www.rockyrockholt.com/

Suppose melting them down constitutes fraud?

No worries here, nothing hot enough to melt them.