Wheaties

[lookingharder]

What does everyone do with all there wheat back pennies? I have 2 3lbs. coffee cans full. Just curious what to do with all of them.

 

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[port ewen ace]

many have higher value. color, wear, date & MM are a factor. then the errors are abundant on wheats. common low grades worth 2 cents--- unless green rot is present. just sold lot of 7 1920's for $2.25. key & semi-key dates can be $1+++. buy a REDBOOK for prices.

 

[GB1]

i have a lot of them i go through them and grade them and put them in flips

 

[Tpmetal]

I usually curse at them once I pop them out of the ground and dejectedly mutter "a wheatie". Then I check for a 1909s vbd, then I silently curse a second time(it's never a 1909) then throw it in my pouch. They then end up either all over my truck or scattered around my place, hell I think I loose half of them again before I make it home. If I think about it when I see them laying around I throw them in a mason jar. Hell I still get them in my pocket change occasionally, at least one every year for most of my life. I'm sure it is just because I live on the east coast and as tom of ca knows... we trip over stuff older than that with out even realizing. But seriously theres gotta be a use I'm overlooking, cause selling them seems like a waste of time and energy for the profit margin.

 

[GB1]

you should put them all in a old mason ball jar and bury it so somebody can find it

 

[Tpmetal]

you should put them all in a old mason ball jar and bury it so somebody can find it

Now there is an idea, like the way you think. Maybe I'll start just filling up those small jelly jars and start burying them somewhere

 

[BLK HOLE]

Well I don't have hundreds of them (yet) but what I do have I plan on keeping, along with everything else I have dug up just to irritate my kids when they have to clean out the house when I'm gone! My grandfather was a rock hound and it took days to empty the basement and I know he was laughing the whole dang time!

 

[Ammoman]

I keep mine in a wooden treasure chest and let my kids go thru them every now and then. If i ever have grandchildren, i will let them start their own penny collections as well.