Wheat Pennies are awesome. They stopped in 1958 :( They show up in change quite often and people dont even notice. Keep em. Theyre cool. They arent worth alot but if you got a whole bag of em you can a decent ammount for em.
SAVE THE WHEATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!
I have 1224313242 Wheat pennies.
well maybe not that much but I have a lot :D
If you have any real old ones i might need em for my book. that means i need one of every date. il buy any i need from you. il pay you handsomly conna
Wheat Pennies are awesome. They stopped in 1958 :( They show up in change quite often and people dont even notice. Keep em. Theyre cool. They arent worth alot but if you got a whole bag of em you can a decent ammount for em.
SAVE THE WHEATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
coins can oxidize cool colors. I DIG
Never seen a coin worth anything besides 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 cents and one dollar?
Throughout the history of U.S. coinage there have been times when these odd denominations existed and had a purpose.
The half-cent (top left) was minted from 1793 to 1857. The reason they minted it was because things were cheaper then and not all goods were worth a whole cent. A half cent in the 19th century would be equivilent to 11 cents today.
The two cent piece was minted from 1864 to 1973. It was produced to promote coin spending during the civil war. Most people hoarded all the coins they could find and made their own replacemnt money for commerce. The two-cent coin didnt fix this problem but the the U.S. mint’s smaller cent helped alot. The penny, before 1857 was slightly smaller than a half dollar. It was a big heavy copper coin. The new penny was the same size as our pennies today and the two cent piece was slighly smaller than a quarter.
The three cent piece (top right coins) had two varieties, the silver veriety was minted from 1851 to 1873 and the nickel variety was minted from 1865 to 1889. The silver variety was the smallest U.S. coin ever minted and the nickel was about the size of a penny. The three cent piece was made to make it easier for the people to buy postage stamps which cost 3 cents at the time.
The half-dime (bottom right) was a small silver 5 cent coin before they were made of nickel. The nickel was introduced in 1866 and was no longer called a half dime because it wasnt half the size of the dime.
The twenty cent piece was the shortest lived U.S. coin made for circulation. They were minted for circulation in 1875 and 1876. Thier purpose was to match european coinage. In euorope they find it more suitable to use a 20 cent coin instead of a 25cent or quarter dollar. The public were confused by and hated these coins. They were discontinued quickly.
The 2 and 1/2 dollar coin is actually a common denomination in the history of gold coinage. The U.S. mint made gold coins under the eagle system. 10 dollars is an eagle and this coin is simply a quarter eagle. The U.S. mint made gold coins from 1795 to 1933. Today the U.S. mint issues gold coins as bullion only.
This fifty dollar gold coin was minted in 1915 and was outside the eagle sytem. It was a coin commemorating the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The Panama-Pacific Exposition was a worlds fair held in San Francisco, celebrating the completion of the Panama Canal.
This is a painting that I made during my senior year at high school.
It is a painting of a proof set, which is a set that has one every type of coin minted that year, untouched by human hands.
This painting is a direct observational painting of a 1974 proof set that I have. I painted it with acrylic paint and it is about 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide.
The Morgan Dollar was minted from 1878 to 1904, and then again for the year of 1921 only. They were made in the Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Carson City mints.
The Morgan Dollar was designed by George T. Morgan. It is 90% silver and 10% copper, and are 38.1 mm in diameter. It is the most commonly collected U.S. coin.
The Morgan Dollar in the picture above is an 1896 S. The S means that it was minted in San Francisco. The mintmark is located on the reverse side, above the D in ‘dollar’. There were 5,000,000 minted in San Francisco that year, which is about average compared to other years, but because of the amount of coins that were later melted down by the government, this coin is less common and therefore more valuable. The particular coin in the picture is in very good condition, and is worth about 2,000 dollars according to PCGS.
