What is the current value of steel? Is it expected to increase in value?
The steel in steel cents is the same as the steel in soup cans you throw out all the time. There is no sense in holding steel cents for their value as scrap. There are way too many steel cents around for them to ever have much numismatic value.
They'd never be worth much for their steel content, likely always less than face value. They might be worth a premium as coins, but not anything you'd call an investment.
