When was the last time you found a wheat cent in your change?

dan1ecu

I haven't found one of those in years. Do you still occasionally find one? How about silver (90%) coins?

Dan

goldrush00013

Yesterday, 1943 I think.

kamehameha00

Wheat cent?Couple months ago.Silver?A year ago.

DominusDeus

Few weeks ago.

silver in change? 10 years ago.

cladking

Wheat cents have hit a sort of steady state in change at around .2% or 1:500.

Silver coin tends to increase and decrease in circulation inversely to the price. All
the silver has been removed from circulation many times over, so a silver coin you
recieve has been returned by someone. I got an AU '58-D dime about 2 months
ago and a wheat cent about 6 mo ago.

KlectorKid

probably around 3 years ago. I dont buy much though and I dont check often.

Shamika

My son found a 1957 wheat cent last week.

oldcameoproofsguy

I have a cash register at work so I break open a new roll of cents, nickels, dimes and quarters every day. I find a wheat cent about once a week, a silver wartime nickel about twice a year, a silver dime about every every two months and a silver quarter about twice a year.

In the last year I found a Winged Liberty dime and an Indian cent. About two years ago I found a really beat up steel cent.

atarian

um for as a wheaty centy um about 3 hrs ago.
and for as a 90% silver coin that was about 8pm tonight when i went to the pizza place near my job. i hope this doesnt offend people, also i got another canadian penny

charley

1-1/2 hrs. ago, at BWI airport, in change at concession-1927S.

bosox

Two or three wheat cents per year. Same with silver dimes. One or two silver halfs per year. Off topic, but got a 1964-D cent in change yesterday that went about MS-63 red. Somebody raided the piggy bank I guess.

Sphinx357

wheat cent? probably a month ago
silver actually in change and not from buying bulk halves? hmmm about 6months or so

granddad

I moved to Rhode Island from the Midwest 3 years ago. I am amazed at how many old coins and in particular wheaties that I get in change here. I get wheaties all the time and 90% silver once in awhile.


Have a Great Day!
Louis

relayer

1993

Conder101

Wheat cent about three years ago. Silver fond a dime about a year and a half ago.

ziggy29

Probably about a month ago. Unless it's a better date, I don't even save them any more.

DanArgent

This is kind of an unfair question for me because I go through all the rolls in my bank drawer every day so yesterday, I haven't gone through pennies yeat today. I would adjust the 1:500 figure to about 1 in 700 based on the rolls that I go through. Steel cents are almost never found in my experiance because since they look different they have already been taken out of circulation my average people. They are easy to find at a coin shop because they are quite common but I have only seen one in circulation and i have probobly gon through more that 50,000 pennies while working at this bank. Silver is also hard to find because of the previously mentioned reasons. Nickles and halves though are relatively easy to find silver, espesialy halves.

Dan

laserart

I found a 56-D wheaty sunday.

dorkkarl

i probably encounter 'em to the tune of 1 / month.

K S

coinguy89

About last month. A 1958 in VF. Ive never found silver in circulation.

Goober

Cent, about a week ago...silver, that's been at least a year.

JRocco

today

Coinerww

never

jdimmick

actually today, a 1941 looks to be about Vf-20

ccr

Two weeks ago, I got a 1952 - D wheat cent in my change.

granddad

About 4 years ago, a friend came to me with a coin that he received in change in place of a quarter. He wasnt happy because he thought it was a worthless token. When I informed him that it was a !/4 oz. gold bullion coin he quickly changed his opinion. The little stinker still brags about it every time that I see him.

Have a Great Day!
Louis

Betta285

1918 and 1919 wheat along with 1936 washington two days ago

homemade

The wheats seem to hve dried up around here, it's been more than a year.

However, my wife brought home $4.00 worth of 1964 quarters from both mints about 3 weeks ago. All of them were AU/MS. It really made my week !

MacCoin

its been forever for me

ccex

I still find a wheat cent in change here in Chicago every 6 weeks or so, and I don't bother to search through rolls. The last 90% silver coin I found was a 1963 Roosevelt Dime. (I haven't been able to buy rolls of halves at face value for several years.)

I find it interesting that I spend Sac dollars more often than I find wheat cents, and still find wheat cents much more often than I receive $1 coins in change. I also spend many more dateless Buffalo nickels or AG Barber dimes than I receive at face value. I have made the day for many a panhandler or fast food cashier.

RGL

Earlier this week, a F 1951-D, the first I have seen in quite some time...

AJ2525

Recently I've been through over $18 worth of cents and didn't find a single wheat cent. Last week a coworker saw someone spend a 1944 wheat and got it to give to me.

Silver in change, if coinstar counts I always check the reject bin and about a month ago got a 1953D dime.

Cladiator

I got a 53S Wheatie at McDonalds and a 52S Wheatie at 7-11 both today! It's been years since I've gotten any silver though.

atarian

i dont understand the whole 1:500 or 1:700 with wheats i get 1 eveyr about 200 or so . nothing to shabby. 13 per 2500 which isnt a bad ratio i guess

Robgetty

2 last week: 1942 in fine and 1940-S in VF

razorface1027

Just the other day. I think it was a 40s year. The week b-4 that, I came across 2---a 1919 & 1939.

wingedliberty

I found a 50's wheat in my change about a month ago. That seems to be the frequency of my wheat finds, about one a month.