   Scrap roof flashing. 
I've been melting and casting roof flashing zinc since the late 1970s.  But I couldn't find any just now, so I purchased a new bucket of scrap at Marco's scrap metal in Champaign in April 2002.  Later I found many pounds of it in my parents' basement.  This metal was melted down and poured into mini-muffin tins to make nice little coins. 
 
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Source: Marco's Scrap Metal 
Contributor: Theodore Gray 
Acquired: 15 April, 2002 
Price: $1/pound for scrap zinc 
Size: 1.25" 
Purity: >90%
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