Wheat Pennies

[geodehunter]

Do you guy's display your wheat pennies that you find? I clean mine up and put them in 2x2 flips and then into an album. They are going to my granddaughters when I'm gone.

[del]

Robbie , my decent ones go into one of my many books that have the round slots with the dates under them . the not so decent ones go into my "jar of wheats"

[Tony Two-Cent]

Only the scarce dates or really nice ones go in 2x2s. The rest I tumble and then sort by decade. I have a box for each decade of wheat cents, 1910s, 1920s, etc.

I have found somewhere around 2500 wheat cents. That would be a lot of albums. ;)

[del]

I have found somewhere around 2500 wheat cents. That would be a lot of albums. ;)

:shocked05:

[geodehunter]

I never even gave the coin album a thought. I think I will go that way also. Thanks Del. Tony, You have found over 2500 wheats??? That's unreal to say the least.

[Fire Fighter 43]

I tumble my common ones and sort them by decades. I've also started a wheat coin book, trying to get one from each year and mint. I too have thousands of wheats, too many to slab each one.

[POKIE73]

same here sort by decades save the key dates dennis

[geodehunter]

You know you guy's are going to laugh at me. In this area if you come home from detecting with 3 or 4 wheat pennies you have had a good day. A day with a silver find they are far and few between. This area has been absolutely pounded by detectors for years. One thing I don't do i don't let that stop me. I keep going out every chance I get.

[Ronandari]

A couple wheat pennies beat pull tabs any day.

[Skamaniac]

Mine go into a little box. Not too many, a couple a month maybe.

[giant056]

I've been cleaning mine up and putting them in mason jars, once in a while I'll find one that I need in the coinbook and I'll put it there. Sometimes I won't take pics of them but usually I'll include them with my finds.

[MangoAve]

You know you guy's are going to laugh at me. In this area if you come home from detecting with 3 or 4 wheat pennies you have had a good day. A day with a silver find they are far and few between. This area has been absolutely pounded by detectors for years. One thing I don't do i don't let that stop me. I keep going out every chance I get.

I will laugh at the misconception tho. Most on this forum don't feel little finds are bad. They know sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. I hit a 1770 school house and only walked away with 1 wheat. There was a bunch of clad..but still.. for the site. If you think the area has been pounded over the years, try door knocking for less touched areas. Sometimes you get lucky to find areas that hunters haven't thought to check. As far as the OP, I used to display them but now all the coins are put in a box. I am thinking to get the plastic cases, but the ones for pennies I would need like 20x more than for any other coins.

[RobW]

I too have found thousands of wheats....I clean them and "roll" them by decades..and put them in a box..where they will sit until???????? I'm dead and my wife sells all my crap or gives it to her new husband to deal with...:lol:

[Isaac]

So far I've dug over 100, and put them all in a plastic bag. When I find a really nice or rare one, I'll put it in a 2x2! :yes: