I. Love. Wheat Cents. The older and more worn, the better. (At least when I'm CRH'ing ;-) I save almost every one I find... unless they're beat up *really* badly... or... If they're from the 1950's. I don't know why. They're just "not as cool". (With the exception of a nice doubled-die 1955 or the 1959 mule...) Does anybody else feel this way? Or is it just me? I mean... 1909? First year! Teens? Oh yeah, baby! Roaring 20's? Bring it *on*! 1930's? Well, there *was* a Great Depression... and events that led up to WW2, but... still cool. 1940's? WW2, steel cents... the Greatest Generation. You know it. But... 1950's...? Meh... Change my mind. ("Change". Did you see what I did there?)
My favorites ignore the 1958,just found the 1909 this week and its a first,second oldest find besides my 02 Indian over the spring.
Ha! I really really like this. I'm much the same way. I had literally like 4 rolls of 1956 D and it was torture just pulling another, and another, and another. That is the one date I can absolutely not stand. Don't worry.. The 50's were great but for wheat cents not so much.
I got rid of a number of rolls for around 60 dollars a couple years ago which bought me my first PCGS coin. I haven't experienced the doubled die affliction yet
I share the same dilemma as you. It is a mix of them being extremely common compared to 1909-1939 wheats as well as the fact that 1950's is still pretty modern. I still like UNC '50s wheats though.
Yes the 1995 is one that is noticible enough for me. I have several hundred I'm going to throw into coins. Maybe one will pop up but it's not on my list for now.
Yes I saw what you did there, very funny lol. I feel exactly the way you do about 1950's wheats, I keep them but only because they're wheats I didn't used to hate '50's wheats but I had a bad experience with them... I bought a bag of 2,500 "unsearched" wheat pennies from a guy (I wasn't expecting them to actually be unsearched but figured there would at least be a good mix of dates, I was totally unprepared for what I got) I spent 2 days looking thru them and found a grand total of 6 PENNIES FROM BEFORE 1945 , the other 2,494 were mostly 1950's and a few late '40's... So yeah, I hate wheats from the 1950's now...
I too have a lot of wheat cents from the 50's, but I love them!!! They make great gifts for kids and may even find a new coin collector some day! Until then I will save them and use them for gifts!!! Besides, they are kinda like an Edsel car, the end of an era!!!
This thread makes me wonder ....do you suppose in 50 years from now , roll hunters will be searching rolls of pennies hoping to find LM cents?
Possibly lol, although the LM's will probably be in circulation longer because there were SOOO many of them made (at least compared to the LWC's)