Need Help Finding Out If Any Of These Wheaties Are Worth Anything?

What I do is Google ""Date" Lincoln Cent value" when I am curious about the value of a LC. This will give you a good idea of what it is worth. The copper content is worth more than face value but it is illegal to melt them so .....

Like that rare 1977D Wheat cent...the only wheat cents "worth anything" are the extreme key dates, otherwise circulated semikey and other lesser key dates are $100 and less. Not an expensive series at all!.

I read somewhere that it is illegal to melt US cents in the US.
John1

News to me, but seems sort of silly if it's true. I know it's legal to melt silver coins, right? I mean, who would know that a given quantity of copper necessarily came from melted cents?

They won't if you add some pure copper pipe to it when you melt it to change the composition. Scrap yards around here check the copper content with some kind of analyser thing and if it reads 95% copper and 5% zinc or tin, they won't have anything to do with you again -

The 1941 S has 2 I'S in the word IN, the 1919 S in the word TRUST you can see a double strike.the 1957 d in the phrase IN GOD WE TRUST,has IN GDO WE DRUST.The 1977 d has 2 stars on Lincolns chin.are you guys really coin collected.

It became illegal in 2007 to export or melt either 5-cent coins or cents.

See Federal register. Search for document title:
"Prohibition on the Exportation, Melting, or Treatment of 5-Cent and One-Cent Coins"

Document Type:Rule
Document Citation:72 FR 18880
Page:18880-18884 (5 pages)
CFR: 31 CFR 82
Document Number:E7-7088

https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...e-cent-coins.

Here's the text in case the link fails:

SUMMARY:

To protect the coinage of the United States, the United States Mint is adopting a final rule that prohibits the
exportation, melting, and treatment of 5-cent and one-cent coins. This rule is issued pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 5111(d), which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit or limit the exportation, melting, or treatment of United States coins when the Secretary decides the prohibition or limitation is necessary to protect the coinage of the United States. This rule's purpose is to ensure that sufficient quantities of 5-cent and one-cent coins remain in circulation to meet the needs of the United States.

DATES:
Effective Date: This final rule is effective April 16, 2007.

I do not believe this ruling has been rescinded.

From what I remember, it is, however, legal to melt 35% silver wartime nickels. Those are provided an exception to the rule for 5-cent coins.