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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bugo, post: 2324662, member: 53226&quot;]I was born 15 years after the last wheat penny was minted. Even when I was a young kid, finding a wheat penny was a special treat and I&#039;ve saved every one I have found since then. My parents had a wooden box full of old coins, the majority of them being wheat pennies, and I got hooked on them. Even in the days when I didn&#039;t have as much interest in coins as I do now I still collected every one I came across. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that the Lincoln Memorial pennies have been out of print for 8 years now, how long until they start becoming rare in circulation, assuming that the penny will remain in production indefinitely? Will they ever reach the legendary status of the wheat penny? How long until somebody excitedly posts on this forum that they found a 1989 penny like it was something special? </p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine that wheats were the majority of the pennies out there well into the 1960s. The copper Memorials are obviously the ones that will disappear first, but eventually all LM pennies will become rarer as time goes on.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when are they going to mint a shield penny in proper copper?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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