What is the rarest Wheatback penny?

I have a ton of them.hya:

 

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1909S-VDB
And 1909's period are nice.
1922
And the very rare 1955 double die.

 

other valuables include 1909-1915 mint marked cents

 

1914-D is a major key coin too.

 

Tell us what years and mint marks you have.

 

If you are really asking the rarest and not the highest priced, It is the 1909 VDB Matte Proof @ 420 coins. All of the proofs from 1909-1916 are each less than 3000, and who knows about the 1917 "proof".

in comparison, the 1909SVDB was 484,000 and the 1914-D 1.1million.

However , supply and demand , generally leaves out the early proofs.

Jim

 

I haven't even looked at them yet. Even if I don't find anything of great value...it still fun treasure hunting.

 

What about the 1943 copper cent?

 

1909 s vdb

 

I would think it would be the 55 double die also. ( *The king of the double dies)
Jazzcoins joe:hail:

 

The rarest of all Lincoln cents is the 1926-S in MS-65 Red, there are only 2 certified by PCGS.

 

Sorry, Jack. There has only been one certified by PCGS. The other was an NGC. Also, there are several others with just one certified (i.e. 1919- MS69).

I would say that the rarest is the 1944-S steel cent. If the fact that it is the highest price (it just sold for $350,000) is not enough, then the fact that there is only one know in any condition should suffice.

 

How about one that only half exists? Such as a 1959 wheat? There's a controversial cent that's out there somewhere and no one knows if its a genuine wheat, or a splice of two coins together.
I do believe it was authenticated at one point by someone, and then un-authenticated, and now it's up in the air.

 

Just ran them threw the tumbler for a couple hours. Man are they pretty. They look new!!!!

 

I agree with that 1944-S Steel cent. At least, that's the rarest in my eyes (and the cent I would want more than any other).

One "hobby" (for lack of a better word) of mine is saving images of dream coins. Not only coins I could never hope to own, but also coins that serve as excellent examples of a coin I'd like to have. Although I could never hope to own either of the coins you mentioned...I do have pictures saved of them (and no, I don't think this is weird). So, I thought I would share them.

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I really hope this was a joke

 

Depends on what you define as rare. And it depends on do you mean rare mintage wise, strike wise, etc. Mintage wise is would be the 09-S VDB. Error wise would be the 44-S that RLM posted about (of which I learned of it's rarity when I read his post, lol. That is one beautiful coin!!). Strike wise, there is a good bit of controversy on which coin is the hardest to find well struck, but it is one of the S mints from the twenties IMHO. Which one? That's a matter of opinion, IMO, lol. I think this covers it really, I think I might have missed an area however?

Phoenix

 

Non variety/error, I always thought that aside from the '09-s VDB the 1931-S has the lowest mintage.
Or I could be wrong..

 

Of the published mintages, you are correct. But what do you do with the 1922 plain and the 1955 D/D. They are generally recognized as part of the set. When you have that figured out, what about conditional rarities?

 

Thats true. Wheatbacks are complicated. So many varieties, errors etc.