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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 470131, member: 68&quot;]Wheat pennies are junk and will always be junk.&nbsp; Sure there are </p><p>higher grades, better dates,&nbsp; and varieties which are very very</p><p>collectible but the typical wheat cent is junk and will still exist</p><p>in the billions two hundred years from now probably.&nbsp; The simple </p><p>fact is that they have mostly been set aside so will remain com-</p><p>mon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Memorial cents have not been set aside in such numbers and </p><p>there remains a remote possibility that the bulk of them will be</p><p>destroyed when the government withdraws the coins from cir-</p><p>culation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In two hundred years the memorials could be much tougher ex-</p><p>cept in unc.&nbsp; The zinc versions will probably be elusive since they</p><p>corrode so badly.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as people find out that the pennies are being withdrawn </p><p>they&#039;ll probably hoard all they can find and the memorials might be</p><p>even more common than the wheats.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In high grade the memorials tend to already be scarcer than the </p><p>wheats but since they aren&#039;t widely collected there aren&#039;t many </p><p>people who know it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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