I just got a wheat penny in change. I haven’t seen one of these in a long, long time. I used to look for them as a kid and collect them. I should have saved them. They might have been worth something. A quick search for my 1956 D Wheat Penny says it’s worth anywhere from 3 to 20 cents. Maybe I should do that during the weekends to make a little extra money. I could get rolls and rolls of pennies from the bank, search through them for wheat pennies, then re-roll the non-wheats and return them for more pennies. It’s a foolproof plan!
“Before I’m poor & admit de-feat-y,
I get the eaties for my Wheaties.”
Foolproof. Yes.
It turns out that I’m much to lazy to search for why there is grain on one of our coins. Was wheat all the rage back then? Is there a rare corn nickle?
What did you say? wHeat penny?
Why do you say it like that?
Like what?
Say Wheat, now say penny.
wHeat penny.
You did it again!!
Haha! I say “cool wHip” all the time now!
cool wHip
cool wHip
cool wHip
Hahaha!
You guys are nutty nuts.
Indeed…visit http://wheat-penny.com/ (maybe you already have?) and be amazed and what one of those pennies could be worth today – to some folks. (I’m a 19th century half and whole dollar saver….can’t find many any more, but I have a few from the end of the 1800’s given me by grandparents, godparents, you name it. My retirement fund, you might say…somebody check and see how much trouble I’m in.)
I could never find the “why wheat?” answer, though – anybody out there have a good guess? I mean, why not corn…or cattle…or any of the many other things the nation produced in the day (1909 –> present)?
Inquiring minds want to know!