“What’s the value of my wheat pennies?” – that’s the main question I keep getting here at The Fun Times Guide to Coins, and I’m glad this is so, because Lincoln cents have long been my specialty. In fact, that’s the first coin I ever collected and the coin that I to this day still focus my coin collecting efforts on.
When I was a new coin collector I, too, used to wonder what the value of wheat pennies was, simply because they’re obsolete coins that by the very nature of their being old were not seen in circulation very often, even during the early 1990s when I first began collecting coins. In fact, my first coin was a 1941 penny, with a value that was far less than I would’ve imagined (around 10 cents) for a coin so old, but I learned that not all wheat cents are worth so little.
As I soon learned, some scarce wheat pennies are worth lots of money, and many more Lincoln cents barely register a value above the intrinsic one-cent denomination. Still, though, you want to know what the value of your wheat pennies is, if for nothing else than to satisfy your curiosity (some are worth a grand or more), then a Lincoln coin value guide is a must-read for you.
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