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Someone's been keeping tabs on the price of copper.
At today's market price that'd be $305,000. Not as much as I was expecting. Google says there's approximately 62,000LBS of copper in the statue.
That's only according to the National Parks Service. Others say potentially as much as 200,000 lbs, or about $1 million USD worth
Source: https://copper.org/consumers/arts/2008/february/Statue_of_Liberty.php
It's hard to say for sure since it was made so long ago, was restored in the 80s, and is big as hell, haha