I know I'm usually going on about silver stacking, but there's also a select few real weirdos who also stack base metals.

I'm sure a lot of silver stackers were called weirdos in the 60s when silver was still in the circulating coins. People realized the value of the silver was higher then the facevalue of the coins.

Well the same thing has happened with nickels and pennies. The government realized it early and has been making them out of cheaper alloys for quite a few years now and here in Canada they stopped making them all together in 2012.

So what's a coin collector/ precious metals stacker to do?

Stockpile!

For a couple years I made it my mission to buy every single penny I could find, with a special focus on sealed bank rolls.

I would contact charities with penny drives and he classified adds. Your be surprised how many people have penny jars or huge tubs that they don't want to worry about rolling and are willing to sell them by weight.

It's amazing how quickly you can amass quite a horde. I've since stopped feeling that I have more than enough now and quickly ran out of room to store them all.