i roll hunt to find wheat pennies and to upgrade my penny collections. I have been keeping all "s" pennies and now have a lot of each. 1968-1974 are the dates. Should I hang on to them or set them free?
I say set them free, unless you wanna keep'em for the copper, or if they are unc, other than that they really don't carry a premium. Of course it would be wise to consult a Red Book to double check mintages and maybe make sure you don't have any 69-s DDO's.
I'd keep 'em, but that's just me. The "S" mint marks hold a special place in my heart for some reason.
Same here - one man's junk is another man's treasure. If nothing else they are over 40 years old now, copper, and from a mint that hasn't had a mintmark on circulating coinage since the 1980 agony dollar.
I personally wouldn't go to any effort to save them, but since you've already got them, I say just hang on to them.
I'm the same way. I've just always been doing it. It's a habit, I admit it, but it's a hard one to quit.
I keep the real good ones for my grandkids as not worth much to me and copper is way down hoping they can make some money on them they are getting older and if the penny is dropped they may go up in price one day
i save them, put them in coin tubes an stash them away and someday my son and\or grandkids can decide what to do with them...
I save any pre-1982 cents I find if they still in excellent barely circulated condition. I know they will never be worth much more than face value during my lifetime, but a hundred years from now they could be worth something and it would be cool to leave a small stash of old high grade coins for my grandkids or great-grandkids to find someday. I know I would be ecstatic if I suddenly discovered my parents had a stash of barely circulated coins in their attic that their grandparents had left them.
