Fair Trade? Wheat Backs For Tombacs?

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Harmonica Pillar of the Community Canada 1118 Posts	Posted 11/04/2014 7:43 pm As I get closer and closer to 250 posts I will be able to trade on here. After going through a jar of card playing pennies I found quite a few wheat back pennies and they are all circulated and not of any interest to me. I was wondering if I was to go through them and look for the 1909 s vdb, take it out, and roll up the rest do you think I could trade them at either a 1:1 or 2:1 for 42/43 tombac nickels? I would like a circulated, beat up roll of tombacs and would like to purge my collection of things that don't fit, does this sound like a far trade? Report this Post to the Staff

Avshater22 Valued Member United States 337 Posts	Posted 11/04/2014 8:04 pm Chances of finding an 09 s vdb Wheat cent in a coin jar are very slim. If you know you have it,it should not be in the jar getting dinged up because it's a pretty valuable coin even in poor condition. Report this Post to the Staff
Harmonica Pillar of the Community Canada 1118 Posts	Posted 11/04/2014 8:06 pm Well, that was an extreme hyperbole. What I meant was I would learn enough about wheat cents so as not to give something like that away. Report this Post to the Staff
Rarecollectibles Valued Member United States 58 Posts	Posted 11/04/2014 11:35 pm It only would take 1 member that collects the wheat cents and has some tombacs to strike some kind of deal. Good luck Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21786 Posts	Posted 11/05/2014 04:54 am You see a great deal many more wheat backs in the dealers' junk bins in Australia, than you do tombacs. The tombacs were minter for a far fewer number of years, for a much smaller circulating market. How about an alternative to trade for something else? Report this Post to the Staff
Harmonica Pillar of the Community Canada 1118 Posts	Posted 11/05/2014 12:36 pm Thanks sel, that makes a lot of sense. I well have to find another way to pick up some nickels and get rid of my wheat backs. Report this Post to the Staff
ace_ftw Pillar of the Community Canada 1747 Posts	Posted 11/05/2014 1:40 pm If you separate the wheeties by decade, and if you have teens/twenties they may draw some interest, but not 1:1, maybe 3:1 to 4:1 I agree with the comments above, but again, you should look for the key dates, and you might be able to sell those to buy the tombacs. Report this Post to the Staff
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