How many wheat cents are in your circulation change jar/rolls or whatever?

Maybe 50+ wheats and 25 or so buffalo nickels... all from when I was a kid.

I gonna give one stash to my nephew and the other to my niece as a Christmas present - along with Whitman folders.

 

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I have quite a few undated buffalo nickels...some of them have S and D mint-marks.

Most undated buffs are from the teens and 20's so i'm very tempted to use some "nik-a-date" to see what i have. It may kill the value, but dateless they are not worth much anyway

 

+1. I'd love to see pics, too! Just to go "oooh, aaaaah".

 

i have about 700 wheats 650 from roll searching

 

I wonder if that is the same story that was in the Chicago Newspapers some years back about a guy that had amassed thousands of dollars worth of Cents and called a bank to come take them. The photo in the paper showed Armoured car people with wheel barrels full of those cents. All turned in for face value. Not sure but I think it was about $80,000 worth. I'm to old to remember exact statistics. Just wish I was working at that bank.

 

i have about 1400 wheat cents. i used to keep them in a burlap sack, but rolled them up and put them in my safe. there just common date wheat cents, but if something happens to them, that would be bad. i feel much safer having them locked up. somtimes i wonder, if we got all the cents that are in circualtion right now, how many wheats would there be? how many flying eagles and ihc? wheat cents are what got me started. i amit, i still buy rolls of wheat cents when i get them. i save them from change. i don't have the heart to spend one. what if it dosn't get to a collector? what if its destroyed? i'd rather have it in my safe. just a few days ago i was looking in my moms change and found a 1956D wheat in EF to AU condition. another time i found a uncirculaed 1955 in circulation. its just crazy that someone would put it in a roll without second thought. our school had a cent drive for a charity. i told my dad about it, and he said i'll call the school to see if we can buy the cents from them. they said they already dumped them into a bank. i still to this day wonder and wonder how many wheat cents went into that bank that could have gone into my collection. they had about $900 in cents. my dad would have bought them, we could have gone through them and find all the wheats. now they are just wearing away into nothing.

 

I have been an active collector of wheat cents since I received my first one in 1969. It is always a special coin for me. The first one received was a 1945-S and I still have it. My total hoard is over 25000, about 20000 of which are wrapped by date and mintmark. The oldest full roll is 1919. The remainder wait in tubes until I reach 50 coins for a full roll. Every single one came from circulation. Just two days ago, I received a 1944-D in change. Wheat cents are almost non-existant in circulation these days but, when I receive one, they are always a pleasant surprise.

Mark
Coral Springs, FL

 

What about IHC's?? How many are left out there??? Just last weekend i pulled an 1897 IHC from a roll

 

Nice. I've never found an IHC in circulation. Wheats are still common, I just found 18 wheats in some rolls, but how can anyone spend an IHC and not know it?

 

Searched a huge jar of change from my wife's grandma. I was mainly looking for nickels and pre-1982 cents. I found plenty of both and also found a 52 S, 52 D, and 58 D Lincoln. I also found three Canadian cents.