What collector has the largest (in number) collection or accumulation of Lincoln cents.

SanctionII

And how many cents are in the stash.

I remember a story about a guy who had tossed cents into fifty gallon trash cans since 1958 and after he retired he spent his spare time going through the cents and putting them into rolls. That would be a lot of cents.

droopyd

Someone is selling "unsearched" lots of wheat cents from an "old-timey" hoard that is claimed to contain more than two million coins.

Zoins

There was a collector that got tired of his and lined the floors and walls of his bar with them, many of them wheaties I think.

coppercoins

Don't know how many would be the largest, and I don't know how many I have, but if there was a large enough prize for the largest hoard (let's say doubling it as the prize) I'd start counting mine to find out where I stand. Of course I'd still be counting in ten years, but so would everyone else who wanted to prove their lot to be the largest.

I know I have over 900 rolls of 1964 alone. No special reason, I just know I have a lot of those - 5 sealed bags start that group off. Probably around 150 bags of BU memorials and circ wheats plus around 5,000 rolls of solid date (many BU) tubes of cents. None of this includes the some 50 double row boxes of inventory...all Lincoln cents.

Heck, I traveled 200 miles to St. Louis six years ago to buy $450 in memorials at face value - just because they were all copper, wrapped in 1981. The guy thought they were wheats and got took...so he sold them to me instead of turning them in to the bank. That's 45,000 coins, and I still have all of them.

Bought a bag deal of 46 bags of wheats, traveled over 600 miles to get them. Bought them on the day Katrina hit Louisiana. I still have at least 30 bags of those. That's another 150,000 coins.

Been keeping my change to look through for the past 25 years. That's accumulated a bit. Takes up two big water bottles, about 20,000 coins per.

Sheer estimate - somewhere around a million plus another quarter...probably more. Never bothered trying to count them coin for coin...for obvious reasons.

PrivateCoinCollector

<< <i>Don't know how many would be the largest, and I don't know how many I have, but if there was a large enough prize for the largest hoard (let's say doubling it as the prize) I'd start counting mine to find out where I stand. Of course I'd still be counting in ten years, but so would everyone else who wanted to prove their lot to be the largest.

I know I have over 900 rolls of 1964 alone. No special reason, I just know I have a lot of those - 5 sealed bags start that group off. Probably around 150 bags of BU memorials and circ wheats plus around 5,000 rolls of solid date (many BU) tubes of cents. None of this includes the some 50 double row boxes of inventory...all Lincoln cents.

Heck, I traveled 200 miles to St. Louis six years ago to buy $450 in memorials at face value - just because they were all copper, wrapped in 1981. The guy thought they were wheats and got took...so he sold them to me instead of turning them in to the bank. That's 45,000 coins, and I still have all of them.

Bought a bag deal of 46 bags of wheats, traveled over 600 miles to get them. Bought them on the day Katrina hit Louisiana. I still have at least 30 bags of those. That's another 150,000 coins.

Been keeping my change to look through for the past 25 years. That's accumulated a bit. Takes up two big water bottles, about 20,000 coins per.

Sheer estimate - somewhere around a million plus another quarter...probably more. Never bothered trying to count them coin for coin...for obvious reasons. >>



Why God why?

coppercoins

Funny thing is...all the rest of the coins (non-cents) in my collection wouldn't add up in face value to buy a tank of gas. I have around three dozen proof sets plus a binder containing around 200 coins. The rest is all cents - about 99.95%

coppercoins

<< <i>Why God why? >>



Boredom. Challenge. Better than collecting bottle caps. Takes up less room than a million books.

Look at it this way...

Been divorced twice, and neither of them wanted anything to do with my 'pennies'...but I also didn't have any 'money' for them to take. Neither of them ever really understood (or cared) that I own more than a year's income in face value at one cent each, let alone the wholesale numismatic value.

I do feel sorry for the poor sap that has to do something with all this crap when I'm gone. I don't think there's a bank in the country that could (or would want to) single handedly deal with all this in a timely enough fashion so as not to lose money paying people to count and bag them.

And no, it's not all stored in the same place....and yes, far less than half of it is at my house.

Zoins

Very impressive coppercoins

oreville

coppercoins:

I am impressed as well.

Those wheaties bags have appreciated nicely in value since you bought them.

The coin collectors of the future will be thankful you had the foresight to save those bags.

But then again this is from a coin collector who has also saved close to 200,000 cents myself.

God forbid our country needs copper in a strategic emergency, they will thank us for our patriotic duty!

thebeav

At one time I had accumulated 26 bags of wheats. I see where that was just small potatoes though......

options26

And my wife complains about the 25000 or so I have. I'll let her read this so she stops complaining, lol

Blackhawk

I've noticed that a lot of the Ebay auctions for hoards of wheat cents say that someone in South Dakota put them away and never checked them. Apparently there's not much to do in South Dakota but put wheat cents into oil drums.

FLBuffaloHunter