Ok. What besides wheat pennies should I be looking for in a box of pennies?

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  1. Corey

    Corey New Member

    Anything?? Thanks!
     
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  3. EvilKidsMeal

    EvilKidsMeal New Member

    You might find a Canadian or two. Other than that probably not too much. Keep an eye out for errors and key dates. :thumb:
     
  4. Corey

    Corey New Member

    what are some key dates? I know the holy grail 43 copper but what else should i look for.
     
  5. DoK U Mint

    DoK U Mint In Odd we Trust

    Dates/Mint marks/condition.

     
  6. Shoewrecky

    Shoewrecky Coin Hoarder

  7. Corey

    Corey New Member

    What dates??
     
  8. ratio411

    ratio411 Active Member

    Someone here recently found a cent with a 180* die rotation.
    That is some serious searching!
     
  9. Iceman57

    Iceman57 Junior Member

    Besides the wheaties.....After the wheaties there is a 1972 double die, for one. I would go out and buy the Cherry Picker Guide book,
    It would have a list of coins to look for that would be worth saving.
     
  10. EvilKidsMeal

    EvilKidsMeal New Member

    Usually if you google it like Shoe showed you, you can find lists. There are quite a few key dates for Lincolns, also many notable "key" errors, I would call them.
     
  11. DoK U Mint

    DoK U Mint In Odd we Trust

    Time

    Greetings, Corey. :yes:
    Consider the concept of "TIME".

    It's the concept that keeps everything from happening all at once.

    Properly applied you can feel less anxious later in it.

    Use the SEARCH thingie here and many dates will be worth finding to different folks for different reasons.
     
  12. Loves2Travel

    Loves2Travel PEACE DOLLAZ

    Above post has SO MUCH WIN

    On top of wheaties, I pluck out the foreign, and 2009 and 2010 pennies :p I hear of many little errors and who knows, maybe decades down the road for my family, these rolls of 2009 and 10 pennies will be worth something!
     
  13. Merc Crazy

    Merc Crazy Bumbling numismatic fool

    WAM's/CAM's are a good thing to look for. The '92 CAM is probably the most valuable non-DD Lincoln Memorial cent out there.
     
  14. pk_boomer

    pk_boomer Junior Member

  15. Taylor101

    Taylor101 New Member

  16. 1999 Wide AM would be a nice score! TC
     
  17. davidh

    davidh soloist gnomic

    Geez Louise! Such a simple question; such a wealth of non-answers!

    Here's the Memorial Reverse Cents to look for (by the way, many posters here resent the use of the word Pennies and insist that the correct term is Cents, even though the US Mint has refered to the coin as a Penny):

    1960 D/D
    1969S Doubled Die Obverse
    1970S Large Date Doubled Die Obverse
    1972 Doubled Die Obverse
    1983 Doubled Die Reverse
    1984 Double Die Reverse
    1992D Close AM
    1995 Doubled Die Obverse
    1998 Wide AM
    1999 Wide AM
    2000 Wide AM

    Also you might want to pull out any 1982 that you find and set them aside for later consideration. Some are rarer than others but require measurements more than a casual glance.

    D/D means a D mint mark stamped over another D mint mark
    Doubled Die means that some or all aspects of the design are shifted and appear to have been stamped twice
    Wide and Close AM refers to the AM in America on the reverse and the relative spacing between the letters.
    The S mint mark is on proof coins not normally found in loose change - but can be.
     
  18. phdunay

    phdunay Member

    Wow, nobody is telling you, look for any 1909 and early teens wheaties, especially 1914 D, 1926 S, any wheat cent really, maybe keep the 1959-1982 cents and sell them on eBay as copper bullion. I am no expert on errors, I will leave those to other forum members.
     
  19. coinmandan

    coinmandan New Member

    I got 10 rolls of Canada Pennies and had about 60 or 70 US Pennies. I went through those and the other 3 rolls of USA and found a 1982 double die.
     
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