You can sometimes find old pennies worth money in your pocket change! And countless collectors spend a lifetime building and improving on their sets of pennies. Gainesville Coins' expertise in numismatics spans over several decades. Our experts share their research to help you with all of your ...
7Keeping pennies in circulation also costs the nation as a whole. Every year the Treasury Department takes about 7 billion pennies out of circulation because they are bent or worn out. According to the Treasury Department, several billion more pennies go into mayonnaise jars, coffee cans, piggy ...
The thing that makes Lincoln pennies dated before 1983 worth more than face value istheir copper content. (Due to the price of copper, they’re worth double face value — around2 cents apieceright now!) For me, this has been a profitable way to search through coins in circulation. I mea...
All Wheat Pennies are worthmore than their face value of .01 cent. A good rule of thumb is that they are worth at least 3 or 4 cents even in poor condition, but those in good condition (not including special years) are worth at least double digit dollars ($10 or more) when purchase...
13 The fourth step of this plan is for people to cash in the pennies already in circulation, thereby removing pennies entirely from the money supply. 14 I admit that it may be hard to imagine a world without pennies, but there is plenty of evidence that this plan will work. James ...