How Many Wheat Cents Do You Have?

As a teen I accumulated quite a few wheat cents from auctions and local coin shops. Probably have 10,000+ wheat cents. Once I bought a lot of 2100 steel cents from an auction. I haven't added many to my hoard in the past ten years but I occasionally pick up a bag of them if they are a good value. Got a bag of 600 of them from an auction house a few years back for $12.50. Couldn't pass them up at that price.

Not many better date wheat cents in my collection since I've never focused on them. Mostly commons.

As a kid, my grandfather got me a few bags of wheats as Christmas presents, which I loved to search through. I probably have 2,000-2,500 now from that and other sources.

Not wanting to dig them all out and count them.

Best guess, 3,000 to 5,000

I don't CRH, so other than my collection I only have about 70 pulled from change.

I have 22 1/2 quart jars full. A good number of those were picked up in collection purchases and I haven't even looked at them yet.

I thought I would find the time this winter, but that didn't happen.

moxking , send them my way .ill look through them for you since I do have the time.

Several hundred, maybe in the 500-800 range?

When I was young, my grandmother gave me six rolls of wheats from her collection, comprising about 3/4 of the whole series, and 50 steel cents (20 P, 20 D, 10 S). Since then, I have amassed a couple hundred from circulation, plus a few hundred more from other sources (mixed in ebay lots, plus a baggie full from an estate lot I helped appraise and sell).

My father collected Lincolns back in the 1960s and I inherited his collection when he died in 1999. He had eight kids to feed, so he didn't have much money for coins. Many of his Lincolns were ones he pulled from circulation.

I've kept almost all his rolls of Wheaties. I must have about 100 rolls, many in old paper rolls held together by faded Scotch Tape. I just can't part with them.