Thousands Of Wheat Cents

GrapeCollects, I hadn't look at it like that with the trade. I do get the issue with wheat cents, I guess it's the same reasonimg to why I'm looking at offloading them LOL.

Hfjacinto, thank you. I did finish filling what I could of the album that my father was working on, but I will be keeping that one in his memory. I have no real interest in filling more.

Thank you all for all of your insight and advice. This is truly why I came here.

My bad ,I missed the key word (not).Sorry.
I suggest selling on ebay,LCS,local coin club,news paper (if they still have those ) Facebook. Ask family and friends if they collect or want to start.
John1

I'm able to get 5-7 cents each when selling on CL. You might also try that. That's for the common 30's 40's 50's ones.
more for the earlier dates.

500 hours?! Huhhh? A bag of 5000 wheat cents might take my 6 hours if I'm checking every single coin.

I thought that I would give a follow up on my experience and the outcome for anyone that may stumble onto this thread that had the same question(s) that I originally started with.

I went with the majority of commentors and decided to sell them on ebay. This was my first experience with ebay, either buying or selling, so the learning curve was steep. Once I finally created my account with both ebay and PayPal, which took some time and a couple of calls between the two, things went rather smoothly.

I went with an approach of variety of listings; rolls of early LWCs 10, 20 &30s, all decades rolls (10 from each decade), mixed lots by the pound and 5 pound. Selling by the roll and by the pound eliminated the need for individual photos, so I just needed to take photos of the rolls and piles of cents.

Like predicted, the early rolls were easiest to sell and sold for much higher than the others. In all, it took me about 8 months to sell all 6000. Most sales occurred in the second, third and fourth months, probably after I had received positive feedback and became more of an established seller. The timeframe was fine with me since they had just been sitting prior to starting this. During the heaviest sales shipping was a bit of a pain, but I started a practice of shipping only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (if needed). Luckily the post office isn't too far from my home.

After all was said and done, and after ebay fees, I ended up getting an average price of $0.12/cent. Obviously way more than the 2-3 cents an LCS would pay, but not without some work. I guess that I was lucky in that I had no complaints and no lost shipments.

Thanks again to all of the commentors for your input in helping me make my decision in how to deal with these. I am pleased with the outcome and the experience re-sparked my interest in coin collecting. Although I am staying away from LWCs, aside from my quest to complete my father's album!

That's great you sold them all!

This was although a lot of work.

Look for any teens wheats with mintmarks and any of these dates:
1917 DDO
1922-D
1923-S
1924-D
1926-S
1930-1932 wheats
1931-S
1936 DDO
1955 DDO