I'm thinking of collecting them and got a hold of this one yesterday I know the more recent ones aren't worth a lot, but looking for a grade here
I know its not worth anything but i am looking to start collecting Lincolns and you've gotta start somewhere
If i am gonna collect them, should i get all dates from 1909 to present, or is there a selection of dates to concentrate on?
if you want to start collecting wheat cents, go to your bank and ask for some rolls of cents. you can usually find a wheat cent about every 5 or so rolls. instead of buying them for a dealer, you can get them for face value! :hail:buy a coin folder, and fill the date mintmark holes in them. you can fill in alot of holes in the folder just from rolls from the bank. wheaties are a very good place to start. thats where i started! i'd start with the 1940-1958 folder just for a start. then after you get that filled, work on the 1909-1939.
Cool thanks, although i live in england so getting hold of them will be tough Can i order them online? if not i have friends in the states i can send the money and they can send me the coins
Well, that would probably not be worth it. I roll search, and I'm lucky if the ratio is 1 in 200 for wheats. In fact, just today, I finished looking through another 79 rolls of cents and found only 4 wheats. The most I've found so far is 18 wheats in a box (50 rolls), the oldest being 1918. I suggest you just go to a bank near you and search rolls of your own country's coinage for older examples, and buy the wheats from a dealer. Most can be purchased for 3 or 4 cents in VF-XF grades, or about 15 cents for the 50's lower BU grades. There are many common dates, and a few rare ones, the rarest of which being the 1909 S VDB, which sells for about 700 USD, or something like 350 GBP (sorry, I don't know the current exchange rate). Even when you take into consideration the key dates, the series is actually pretty affordable. I hope you begin a collection, and if you do, good luck!
Thanks for that, although collecting British coins, especially old ones will be a case of finding dealers and bulk lots of coins as decimalisation came in and we do not have coins in circulation b4 1971 and even then the 50p is now smaller, so the old thicker ones are not used, smae for the 5p and 10p coins and some banknotes
I know a coin dealer I used to frequent had a whole wooden box full of wheaties (commons) for sale for like 3 cents each. That might be a little high, but I got most of the common dates by going through that. I would imagine many coin dealers have something similar...maybe even in England.
