Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
I heard this rumor as well: You can't buy nickels in bulk because their melt value is higher than their face value.

A little research shows this to be false, but still interesting I think. While not true currently, it could someday be the case that the melt value of a nickel is higher than the face value.

Each nickel contains exactly 1.25 grams of actual nickel.
Current market price of Nickel: $7.6761/lb
If $1B in nickels truly does weight 220,000,000 lbs as TFOGGER says, Samsung would have sent Apple approximately $422,185,500 in melt value nickel.
But a nickel is only 25% Nickel the other 75% is Copper...so add that to your melt value math equation.