Wheat Penny Question

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I'm a beginner to coin collecting and I have a bunch of wheat pennies. The question I have is I have been seeing alot of items on eBay that are expensive that say "Key Date." What does this mean?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

 

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[hollowpointred]

a key date is a rare variety of coin, usually rare because of a low mintage. less coins = more valueable.

 

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Does anyone know where I can find a list of those dates?

 

[Montana Jim]

This is just one of many sites I use... you can google "rare key date coins" and probebly get a thousand other sites.

http://coins.ha.com/info/typevalues.asp

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[eagle77]

Here is a source for wheaties
http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/cents_lincoln_wheat_reverse.html