coins
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posted by catherine / January 07, 2006 / 
digging through my wallet today, i noticed a funny-looking penny (i've started paying closer attention to my change since i keep getting screwed over by somehow amassing a large amount of canadian quarter-looking coins that don't work in my laundry machines and force me to run back to my apartment every time i do a load to get a real quarter). the penny is from 1944 and is what the internet says is a "wheat-backed" penny.
it's probably a pretty common coin, but i thought i'd ask the blogosphere: could this penny actually be worth something, or is it just a neat old coin?
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Option b, I think. I used to collect those when I was a little kid. They were either pretty common, or I was unaware of what a wealthy seven year-old I was.
sigh, that's what i expected. i was entertaining brief dreams of quitting j school and being a lady of leisure for the rest of my life, though.
All of the pennies produced between 1909 and 1958 where wheat pennies, so there are literally millions and millions of them still in circulation, and in order for modern coins to be valuable they have to be rare. From what I can remember of my coin-collecting youth, the only wheat pennies that are worth anything are a few of the VERY old ones and the mis-strikes like a "double-die" penny from 1955. Other cool ones to look for are the steel pennies that were minted in 1943 due to wartime metal shortages.
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