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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dan_2017, post: 2608554, member: 84301&quot;]Hi all.&nbsp; My name is Dan and I&#039;m new to the forum.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always been interested in coin collecting, but never really made a hobby out of it.&nbsp; I do have some wheat pennies mounted in a book, but other than that never did much else.&nbsp; I think the plastic holding the pennies is trapping moisture or something because the edges of some pennies is green.&nbsp; Hopefully I&#039;m not destroying the coins, but that&#039;s a different subject for another thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason I&#039;m posting is that I&#039;m a little confused about penny values.&nbsp; For instance, there&#039;s a guy online posting about a 1979 penny graded at MS68 and sold for $2800.&nbsp; Then I check mint uncirculated (proof set?) 1979 penny values and they come in at something like $4.00.&nbsp; What&#039;s the deal?&nbsp; Is the guy on youtube punking everybody?</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>Then I see other videos of people collecting unremarkable coins from the latter half of the 20th century and remarking about how beautiful they are.&nbsp; They&#039;re still worth about .01, so are these people simply interested in the preserved nature of the coin, regardless of value?</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, with that said, here&#039;s the reason for this post.&nbsp; Normally at my store I come across wheat pennies whenever I open a new roll, and over the years I always save the wheaties and anything silver (years ago some kid came in with two rolls of silver quarters.&nbsp; I gave him $20 before I even knew what I had).&nbsp; Last month we took my father in law&#039;s change bottle that weighed over 200 lbs and was worth over $2600.&nbsp; We have separated all the denominations and removed a small number of wheat pennies.&nbsp; So now we have over 11,000 pennies that I&#039;m either going to put in my register slowly, or take them to Coinstar for supermarket store credit.&nbsp; But now I&#039;m thinking maybe I should go through all these more carefully and see if there is anything of value there.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you guys/gals think?&nbsp; Are there any particular things to look for in post 1958 pennies?&nbsp; Are there maybe 3 or 4 things worth hunting for in modern pennies that would compare to the fabled 1943 copper penny?&nbsp; I mean, of course not, but at least something of enough value to be worth the effort?</p><p><br /></p><p>After seeing that video about 1979 pennies, I took a quick look through a handful of&nbsp; pennies and found like 4 of them right away.&nbsp; One was in pretty nice and shiny condition, but I assume it is worth 0.01, despite the youtube video.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I should have warned that I like to type a lot.&nbsp; Hopefully I got my point across.&nbsp; Any suggestions are greatly appreciated![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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