Wheat Pennies? So What?

[DirtyRob]

Yepper 700+ and only 4 wheats!

 

[TR Mook]

When I find a wheatie, I'm pumped! I don't find a lot of older coins and if I get a wheatie it puts the biggest smiles on my face. It's pure nostalgia for a time in which I did not live. I see them as equals to pulling silver. That's just me though. I can't tell you the feeling I had the first time I pulled a wheatie out of the ground. and...GO PENS!

 

[NevTrac]

Is A 1942 wheat penny any less historical than a 1942 Mercury dime? Less valuable maybe, But I don't sell coins, I collect them. Is an Indian head penny just another copper penny?
Keith

 

[bmattioli]

I'll always love digging those Wheaties..

 

[Wayson]

I like digging wheats. Any time I dig a coin and it's not clad it's a good day.

More so for me than for others, probably, because (minor confession) in over nine months of detecting I have yet to find a single silver coin.

 

[eli]

I think the copper/bronze penny is the perfect coin, anyone can afford at least one and if they don't have one at the moment, chances are that will change by the end of the day, just take a walk around the block! I started collecting coins with wheat cents and they are alway welcomed whenever I turn one up, like an old friend.

I've always picked pennies up, out of the dirt or off the sidewalk, even the zinc one, and probably always will, only now I can hunt them up proper like, with my little yellow detector and it's constant companion, Mr. Pin Pointer.

 

[Beefcake]

I'll admit. They are only indicators for me. I'll dig a few of them to know I'm in the right spot, but after that I often skip over them looking for the silver nearby.

 

[NevTrac]

I'll admit. They are only indicators for me. I'll dig a few of them to know I'm in the right spot, but after that I often skip over them looking for the silver nearby.

Don't forget about tokens and small silver rings that ring up like wheaties, Also I've had A couple pocket spills with multiple wheats and A silver in the hole where I thought I was going to dig A single wheat penny. I dig every wheat penny signal I come across. That silver coin that is nearby aint goin anywhere til I dig it up anyway.
Keith

 

[dogpound]

i'll dig wheats over zincolns anyday and welcome the sight of them at my hunting areas. this means that the site hasn't been hunted (unless someone cherry picked) and silver is mostlikely nearby.

 

[mr_hippie]

I dig 'em all. I still get a good feeling when I flip that lincoln over and see wheat.

 

[Stevo]

I like digging Wheaties. They are just as historic as any other coins of that era. I dug 50 last season, with 1909 being the oldest. Most were in fairly rough shape, as were the 15 IHs I found. The soil up here does not like copper coins. I also like finding any old coins and wondering about the setting in which they were lost. A penny MD'd is a penny earned. BTW, I pass on zincolns if I don't thing its worth digging another hole. If I'm low on targets, they become more attractive.

 

[tjr35]

Is A 1942 wheat penny any less historical than a 1942 Mercury dime?
Keith

To me yes..

Is an Indian head penny just another copper penny?
Keith

No



I agree with the indicator theories though.

 

[bazeball7]

So far, wheaties are my best finds. But I suppose that if I was finding silver coins and nice jewelry on a regular basis I may be less enthused about the wheats.

 

[dogbit]

I like wheaties a bunch. I always get a kick when I pull one out of the ground, especially when all I've been finding is clad. Let's me know that somewhere out there a nice silver is waiting. I think that's one of the reasons I went away from the I.D. machines. I started getting lazy and just digging what the machine was saying was a good signal. Now I hear a beep and dig. I know my penny and pulltab counts up, but so is my gold and silver.

 

[CreepyCrawler]

So far, wheaties are my best finds. But I suppose that if I was finding silver coins and nice jewelry on a regular basis I may be less enthused about the wheats.

I find nice jewelry on a pretty regular basis and I'd rather dig a wheat penny.

There is not much old in the ground here that is shallow enough to find
or survived the elements and I love the design and patina of old coins.

 

[Dirty Money]

I don't know why. There's just something about a wheat penny

I'd love to dig something older than I am. What's the VDI for a Stone Age axe?

HH

 

[tjr35]

I'd love to dig something older than I am. What's the VDI for a Stone Age axe?

HH

 

[DougF]

I don't find silver every time out, but I feel like it's been a good hunt if I can get at least one wheat. As someone said, silver rings sometimes ID as copper cents. Also, once you get beyond 6 inches or so, I find there's not much difference between a silver dime signal, an IH signal, and a wheat signal.

 

[tjr35]

I don't find silver every time out, but I feel like it's been a good hunt if I can get at least one wheat. As someone said, silver rings sometimes ID as copper cents. Also, once you get beyond 6 inches or so, I find there's not much difference between a silver dime signal, an IH signal, and a wheat signal.

Thats why I always dig dime signals, even though copper pennies ring up there. I will admit I skip the penny signals a lot of times especially if I am pressed for time.

 

[mrshufflr]

Somewhere and I really hope they are in my attic, are over 1000 wheat pennies that I started to collect in the early 70's when they were still in circulation in great numbers.