Your Completed Wheat Cent Collection

My father had 5 Dansco books mostly complete minus the 22 plain and 3 didn't have 1909s(VDB ). And it took a lifetime to complete. And if he was still alive would most likely be doing upgrades to the books as he could. And I do from time to time take them out and look at them.

Started my collection 62 years ago and have all except 09s, 09s vdb, 31s and 22 plain. Will never complete it, but I still get it out and look at it occasionally. They are housed in the old Wayte Raymond coin boards.

Most would say not needed but it's your opinion that counts on that one . Those 2 will be expensive. Good luck and happy hunting

i don't remember if I posted my LWC stuff before or not, but I'm pretty sure there are numerous completed LWC amongst the ccf members; I am not one of them, I lack only the '09-S VDB.

money woes means my collection is on hold for the time being, but I officially re-started my LWC collection in the spring of 2019 using the combined coins from my grandpa's handful and my handful of LWC. I purchased a new Warman's folder back then and loaded our coins into it. altogether we had about half. I set out to acquire the rest, it took me about 4 years to get it up to needing just the aforementioned coin, upgrading the worst specimens in the folder as I could, working backwards from the 1950s to the 1940s, 1930s... I maybe have thirty-ish upgraded coins, the rest are avg. circ., which doesn't particularly bother me.

i almost never get the folder out as I have pictures to look at. I think the most recent additions to the folder (from a couple years ago) were the '09-S, '14-D, and a few upgraded coins.. a '34, a '37 and a '24-S.

i'll get back to it one day, maybe sooner than I think.

I started with a pair of Whitman folders and moved them to Dansco 8100 album 40 years ago. I need the big two—1909-S VDB and 1922 Plain.

Lincoln cents are my favorite coin to collect and I have a Dansco 7100 album that you may have seen on here that I've been working on pretty diligently for the past six months or so. The majority of the Memorial cents are basically complete, besides those pesky 1960 small date and 1970-S small date coins. I do need to upgrade a few of the Memorial cents here and there.

I also have the majority of the coins from 1935-1958, which is the last two pages of the Wheat cents collection. There might be 2-3 still missing.
The first two pages, which is everything before 1935, are a bit more tricky and I've been trying to take my time where I can and try to pick out nicer coins like in XF condition or around there.

A lot of the earlier Wheat cents, particularly the S mint mark coins from the teens (and before) aren't cheap. Not expensive, but not cheap. I will try to add a few of the key dates later on, such as the 1909-S and 1931-S. These seem to be the most reasonably priced ones, as the 1909-S VDB, 1914-D and 1922 plain (which I don't care about personally) are much more costly.

I had considered adding the proofs later on, but I don't have the proof album, so I bought a blank cents page to add into the end. That said, I may just convert everything over, bite the bullet and "upgrade," to a Dansco 8100 album, which is with proofs. I'd probably use the 7100 to start over and start building some other kind of set. Not entirely sure. I'm not entirely sold on the proofs yet though, so I think I'll just wait and see what happens after I complete the album later on before messing too much with them.

Also, in case you are looking for any kind of inspiration, this is my Lincoln Cent thread:
https://goccf.com/t/478309