a nickel is now worth about what a penny was over 40 years ago. The fact that it costs more to produce a penny (over 2 cents) than a penny is actually worth indicates the rate of inflation over many years. Until the mid 1980s pennies were actually made from mostly copper, but since...
When pennies were not positioned correctly, or the planchet was misaligned, the result was an off-center piece. In most cases, the off-center range is from 15% to 20%, and such collectible coins are worth about $50. Those with 50% off center cost a few hundred dollars when the date ...
Valuable Wheat Pennies Do you have one of these rare and valuable coins? Check your piggy banks. Key years are listed with descriptions in chronological order. 1909-S VDB Wheat Penny – up to $12,000+ Victor D. Brenner’s initials (VDB), appeared below the wheat stalks on the reverse ...
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...
000 minted. Because the number of coins minted is so high, the 1952-D wheat penny is not considered rare. The lower the number of coins minted, the rarer the coin. The rarest wheat penny is the 1931 S wheat penny because there were only 866,000 coins made, unlike other pennies whose...
C My dad loved pennies,especially those with the elegant stalk(茎)of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back.Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression. As a kid,I would go for walks with Dad,spying coins along the way-a penny here,a dime (一...
21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don't think that's a coincidence. 1.The writer's father loved pennies with wheat because ___. A. when he first saw it, he began to love it B. when he saw the wheat, he thought of his time ...
That started it.Suddenly wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks of New York everywhere.I got most of the important years:his birth year,my mom's birth year,the year he graduated from college,the year he met my mom,the year they got married,the year my sister was born.But ...
Because of the short period of time during which 1909 VDB Pennies were struck, there is a relatively small number of these coins in existence. There were 27,995,000 1909 VDB Lincoln Wheat Penny coins made and just 484,000 1909-S VDB Lincoln cents struck. The latter coin is one with ...
Speaking of the Lincoln Wheat Penny proof coins, 1916 was actually the last official year that early proof Pennies were made. While there have been some reports of 1917 proof Lincoln Cents surfacing, none has been confirmed. You can tell one of these early proof Lincoln cents apart from a ...