I took a couple of large bottles of regular pennies to the credit union and got rid of. Had saved for quite a few years of pocket change.
Have a blue book that held pennies from early 1900's. oldest was 1909, worth $1.15. Got it as a kid.
Have a blue book that held pennies from early 1900's. oldest was 1909, worth $1.15. Got it as a kid.
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Error coins can be where the money is at.... google a 1955-D double die wheat cent. A regular 1955-D wheat cent is worth a couple of bucks but the double die........ I dont know how many I have inspected over the years hoping but never finding.
i had a jar full of them until my uncle stole them
I have a steel 1943 wheat penny, and a 1963 penny with Kennedys' head stamped beside Lincoln
A dealer would probably just count them and give you a quarter apiece.
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If that, then HE would go through them hoping to find a treasure or two. After picking through them he would then possibly sell them on ebay by the pound as "unsearched".
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IMO the holy grail of wheat pennies is the 1943 copper wheat cent. Officially none were produced but it is known that 5 or so copper blanks were left in the machine when they ran the steel pennies that year to save copper for the war effort.
I remember ads from when I was a kid saying how much they would pay for a 1943 wheat cent.
There are (used to be at least) people out there that actually doctored the date on other copper wheat pennies to make a copper 1943 wheat cent to sell to unsuspecting buyers.
As far as the steel pennies go, I have locally seen some for sale that had been badly galvenized and offered as mint state. I told the pawn shop I knew better and he fessed up that they were done locally by a friend at a place that galvenized metal and he was selling them as "novelty items"
Other companies did a nice job of refinishing them and selling them commercially..
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Whoo hoo, I'd take a quarter apiece!!
Sounds like I probably need to look through them for that million $ one just on the off chance. I think I will get my daughter to sort them by year and tell her she can keep the best example of each year / mintmark for her trouble.
If I find any really good examples or mid-rarity ones, are there any coin dealers in Tulsa area that I should use? I don't mind taking a little less than eBay prices but just want to deal with it up front rather than mailing to someone on ebay.
