Wheat pennies...

I was not laughing at you. I have never heard them called that.
The image is Liberty, but I believe when they first came out people called them "Mercury" dimes because of the little wings on the ears. No one calls them Liberty Head dimes, which is what they are. But the name has stuck.

 

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A few months ago I took about 10000 bulk wheats to a local coin dealer. He paid 4-6 cents per coin (6 cents for teens and twenties, 5 cents for thirties, and 4 cents for the rest). I had them pre sorted by decade. Any semi keys were sold individually.

 

Thanks for sharing the links! I too am kind of new to coin collecting. I started back when I was about 6 in 1964. Started collecting wheat back pennies. Have not looked at them for about 40 years now. I like the Photograde link, it really helps!

 

Look though them an put one of each date in a 1cent coin roll. Place an ad on ebay and sell them indicating the years an condition or AS IS. I'm pretty sure you'll get some bites.

 

Buy a coin book so you know what to look for.

To give you some idea....I buy Wheats for 3¢ and sell them for 4¢

 

That's okay! Even though most people call them Mercury dimes, they are wrong, too. The correct term is "Winged Liberty" dime.

Chris

 

Agreed that there may be some good ones in there. The two links are great.

My own Wheat cents collection was started more than 60 years ago with 80% of my set being collected before I was 15. My father was a collector; after his passing decades ago, mom sold his collection to a coin dealer without asking me if I wanted it. Dad's collection was started when he was a boy in the late Twenties. Just imagine how hard it must have been for that dealer to keep his composure as he surveyed what he may have thought of as the Motherlode being dumped in his lap.

Hope you find some good ones, @Daniel W.

 

10 pennies in Mercury Dime.

 

This reminds me about my dad and uncle taking two five gallon buckets of coins to the bank in 1963 that their hermit uncle accumulated over the years before his passing. A few years later and I would have been at the start of my coin collecting hobby and maybe had the chance to go through all of these coins first. I always wondered what kind of treasures were in those buckets.

 

Maybe not quite the same, since these guys new what they were looking for, but still fun to dream
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-new-york-subway-hoards.234779/

 

Daniel, welcome to CT....your coins are wheat CENTS...
THIS is a Penny...a nice red Penny.

 

Although commonly called "Mercury" dimes, it is properly a Winged Liberty...depiction of a young Liberty identifiable by her winged Phrygian cap and became confused with the Roman god Mercury.

 

Ignore this guy. He clearly has no idea what he is talking about. From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny

 

Yes I have some wheat penny of different year.

 

Also from Wiki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent

 

Wheat penny, wheat cent, whatever. When someone uses either term we know what they mean.

 

Steelies, Lincolns, Zincolns, coppers, red cents, dirty coppers.

 

If I told you I got five cents in change then how many coins did I get? If I told you I got five pennies in change then you'd know how many coins I got.

 

Hi ya'll, My dad's aunt died and dad got her wheat pennies. Dad died and Mom got them and then she gave them to me. I now understand what my aunt was trying to do. I have a card from the Whitman Publishing Co.(No. 9101) for pennies dated 1909 to 1924. It holds 44 pennies. The only one missing is the 1909-S VDB. all the rest are filled.