Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire One Dollar's Worth of pre-1982 US Pennies Is Worth $2.77

I've got a bunch of wheat pennies. I add to them when I find them.

i've run out in traffic for those.

I haven't seen one in circulation for 30 years. They gone. In 1980 you could still find them pretty regular.

I had a huge bucket full of pre 82 pennies back in 92. I left for Africa for 2 years and when I got home I discovered my little brother had cashed them in and spent the money. He then tried to convince me that a 5 gallon bucket only held about $5 worth of pennies.

Bb

I still come across one several times a year. I've been putting them in a particular container for thirty years or more, and have a pretty good pile of them. They're still only worth a couple dollars each, at best, though. The rare ones seem to be gone from circulation.

Little brothers will do that.

While we're on the topic of pennies; I have about 50 of the 1943 steel pennies. They were a one year only deal due to war time copper shortages. Wonder what they are worth to collectors these days?

What are wheat penny's worth, I got like $50 of them, I know I know $50

Someone makes a machine that will sort the copper ones from the zinc automatically. A local coin shop had one and for a while it was running all the time. I guess the finally wore out their welcome with the local banks and they stopped selling them bags and roles of pennies.

I bought a $500 bag of 50 cent pieces about 10 years ago from my bank. I sorted through them and found one 40% half. I took the rest back to the bank and they asked me not to do that anymore. I said no problem because it wasn't worth it.

Bb

Just a few years ago, I cashed a check at a bank, and in the change portion they gave me one of those 40% half dollars, the silver in which was worth a few dollars.

Thanks, FishinHank. I should have mentioned they were not 100% silver although I thought the silver content was greater then 40%.

L.W.