Although market prices have eased over the last few years, this renewed interest has kept values and prices pretty stable over time. Lincoln cents from 1958 are. In the year 1943, an interesting thing happened.
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In fact, there are many rare wheat pennies that are worth hundreds of times their face value, and a plethora of others that are worth $1 to $5 or more — even in well worn condition.
Below is a list of the top 15 most valuable wheat pennies ever sold at auctions, according to pcgs:
Replacing indian head pennies, which were minted from 1859 through 1909, lincoln pennies were welcomed by. Minting information, specifications, characteristics, current melt value, and past sales prices. A wheat penny refers to a coin with the etching of abraham lincoln on one side and two stalks of wheat on the other side. Below is a complete list of values for every wheat penny made, save two.
With all of the buzz surrounding the new lincoln memorial cent in 1959, the last of the wheat cents were seemingly all but forgotten. However, the really valuable 1958 wheat penny is the 1958 double die obverse, this. As it is the last year of the lincoln wheat cent, the 1958 wheat penny remains in high demand and retains a decent bit of value. Find the current lincoln cent (wheat reverse) values by year, coin varieties, and specific grade.
1909 was the first year wheat penny coins were minted.
Since the late 1800s, only barber's first initial of his last name (b). Mintage number by year for wheat pennies. While the original edition pennies from 1909 can. Most of the cents that are commonly collected are the wheat reverse, often called the “wheat cent” or “wheat penny”.
Brenner completed his design for the lincoln wheat. Any wheat penny is worth at. 1958 was the last year that lincoln wheat pennies were minted, bringing to an end a coin that had been struck for 50 years and saw two world Initially, from 1909 to 1981, the lincoln penny was made mainly of copper.
This series ran until 1959 when it was replaced with the.
Old wheat penny value chart by year (2024 update) how to correctly identify pennies to collect. Wheat penny production skyrocketed in the 1940s (in fact, the philadelphia mint alone struck more than 1 billion pennies for the first time in 1944), but for lincoln. The 1943 copper wheat penny is not listed because it is rare and worth thousands to.
