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I've been collecting since 1972. Back then it wasn't commonplace to find a lot of wheaties, but it wasn't unusual to get them in change, either. I collected tubes of every date (mostly P & D) from about the mid-1940s up to 1958, strictly from change. (I've never looked at bank rolls.)
I think they started tailing off for good somewhere in the 1980s.
Nowadays, I get a wheatie maybe every few months or so.
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08/13/2011 7:16 pm
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I think it also depends on what part of the U.S. you are talking about. I've heard many times that folks here in the northeast where I live are more likely than most to pull "interesting" coins out of circulation and hoard them. Something to do with Yankee frugality or the like. Obviously, everybody here on this board will routinely check our pocket change for anything out of the ordinary, but I'm talking about regular folks who aren't coin collectors who pull out and set aside every single wheat back penny they find simply because it's different and might possibly be worth something extra.
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I just got a Wheat penny in change the other day so they are still out there. But I think they are not common anymore because there were less made and many people hoard wheat cents and copper cents also. I don't think non-collectors are saving these at all, or only by chance. Most people don't even know what they have in their pockets. All the better for us that do know! |
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I have about three rolls of wheats on my desk right now that I've pulled in the last month...but I'm always searching bags of cents...guess it depends on how much change you deal with but I don't think there was a magic day or year, they just slowly get pulled.
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Bedrock of the Community
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They really never did just vanish from circulation. As already noted even some IHC's still pop up now and then. As long as people keep dumping old jars, cans, etc of coins sitting on a shelf in their homes back to a bank, Wheat Cents will always be popping up. You hear people saying how they find them in change today constantly. Many of us like to throw some into our change for the fun of it. I've done that with 1944's for a long time since they made a billion and a half of those. |
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Don't get them in change too often, but I do find a handful roll searching a $25 brick.
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United States
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I see one every couple of months or so just in pocket change, but even when I started collecting in the late 1970's, they were already rare even then, when the newest Wheats were only about 20 years old.
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Pillar of the Community
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Where'd they all go? In my pocket! I find at least 15 every time I search a box. I think its the region.
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I think they started tailing off for good somewhere in the 1980s. I'll agree with that statement and with rachums107 that it depends on the region. Interestingly, I just finished sorting through 20 bank rolls of cents from 1984. These were saved back then by my mother-in-law who used to work as a teller. From my searching of these rolls, I would find many MS LMC, about 10-15 per roll, mostly from the early 19080-1984. However, I only found 3 wheat cents (40's and 50's). I also found 4 Canadian cents and 3 S-mint LMC. I know this is small number statistics, but with a hit rate of 0.3%, this is not too different from what it is now. |
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