3rd place metal at olympic anyone stacking

[craig12]

obviously the 3 metals I'm aware of at the Olympics are gold silver and bronze  , if the 3rd place medal winners still get a bronze , then it must have a good value,  why do we not here of anyone stacking bronze , I see lots of stuff on e bay with coa s  and medals for shooting , Winston Churchill, etc etc but I don't hear much about people stacking it , any reason why ?  regards

[Stu]

Bronze is an alloy of mainly copper and tin so not worth much by weight. Collectors base may be a whole new ball game but have no idea.

[Danny-boy]

obviously the 3 metals I'm aware of at the Olympics are gold silver and bronze  , if the 3rd place medal winners still get a bronze , then it must have a good value,  why do we not here of anyone stacking bronze , I see lots of stuff on e bay with coa s  and medals for shooting , Winston Churchill, etc etc but I don't hear much about people stacking it , any reason why ?  regards

Are you for real??

[Kman]

How much bronze or copper would you need to get to make it worthwhile stacking?

I imagine a shite load lol 

[morezone]

200kg copper = 1 oz gold
To stack £20k worth at spot would require 4 metric tonnes of the stuff. That's a quite a bit.

[craig12]

54 minutes ago, Danny-boy said:

 

Are you for real??

 

I didn't know the value of it , as I thought it had some decent value if a medal was awarded to Olympians , I guess now you've worded it like that it it means thanks for coming 3rd  but heres a worthless piece of s.......

[sixgun]

There are copper, brass and bimetallic medallions being minted - 

[Murph]

1 hour ago, craig12 said:

I didn't know the value of it , as I thought it had some decent value if a medal was awarded to Olympians , I guess now you've worded it like that it it means thanks for coming 3rd  but heres a worthless piece of s.......

Well as far as the metal content goes none of the olympic ones are worth a fortune.  The gold medals haven't been solid gold in many years.  Iirc they are mainly silver now and are gold plated or alloyed.

[sovereignsteve]

yes, the colour is just symbolic.

[Murph]

I don't suppose it would really matter if it was made of steel if you had won one.

[danmc82]

Strange that Tin has a higher value than Copper but you dont see much, if any Tin bullion but plenty of copper.

I have 1 1/2 pounds copper in bars and 8oz copper rounds. Just have it for fun really, nice to hold.