Lincoln wheat cents were the first coins I ever collected when I jumped head first into numismatics as an 11-year-old boy in 1992. All these years later, I still enjoy collecting Lincoln pennies. There are still many old wheat pennies and other old Lincoln cents in circulation, but it seems there are far fewer in pocket change today than when I first began collecting Lincoln cents in the early ...
And even the “highly common” pennies of most every pre-1934 date and mintmark not mentioned here are worth at least 10 to 20 cents apiece.. Post-1934 Penny Values. The pennies made from 1934 on generally saw far higher production numbers, less circulation, and more examples being saved in quantity by collectors, hoarders, and investors than the earlier Lincoln pennies.
Pure copper pennies are those made before 1982. Prior to 1982, pennies were made primarily of copper. At that time, a copper penny was worth more than 1 cent due to the rising cost of copper.
The cent, the United States one-cent coin (symbol: ¢), often called the "penny", is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States dollar. It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to…
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