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Wheat Cent Bags

Full Bag of 5,000 Wheat back Pennies

5,000 wheat pennies coins per bag - Wow!

(Wheat-Back US Lincoln Cent coins are often called wheaties, or wheat ear cents!)

Wheat-back Cent Bags

Full Bag of 5,000 Wheat back Pennies

(Pre 1959 US Lincoln Cent coins are often called wheaties, or wheat ear cents!)

5,000 coins - Wow!

Picture coming soon - front & back of cent

Wheat-back Lincoln cents were made between 1909 and 1958. They depict Abraham Lincoln on the front. The reverse design has Ears of wheat on each side, hence the nickname “wheatties”. Unlike today’s cent, which is copper plated zinc, old wheat pennies were made of almost solid copper (95% copper and 5% tin/zinc). In 1958 the US government mint was authorized to stop making the Wheat ears cents. In 1959 they changed the reverse design of the Lincoln penny to a Lincoln Memorial design.

wheat cent bag of 5000 coins

Picture of typical coin bag

Buy them while we have them!

This bag contains 5,000 circulated wheat cents. (That’s right, five thousand coins!)

We machine count them when putting them in the canvas bag. Dates will vary, just as they were pulled from circulation years ago. Most likely you will find coins dated during the last twenty years or so of production. But you never know. Wheat cent bags are all unsorted, unsearched by us, and dated before 1959. A nice mixture of circulated wheaties - 97% or more have fine readable dates. If you are looking for specific dates we can't guarantee that you will find what you are looking for. But you never know - each bag is different and they come from multiple sources (when we can find them.)

hand full of wheat back pennies opened bag of 5000 wheat pennies

When you think about it, wheat pennies (averaging under a dime a piece) seem very cheap. It wasn’t too many years ago when Indian cents were inexpensive and easy to find, just like wheat cents. Now, the most common Indian cents bring over $ 1.00 a piece!

These bags are very heavy. (30 - 35 pounds) - Shipping is by insured post office mail. Shipping is ONLY $ 3.95 per bag to addresses in the continental USA. That's right - only 3.95 per bag. We absorb the additional postage & insurance costs which can be considerable. Order TWO or more bags of wheatties and shipping is FREE !

Buy now! Limited supply!

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Interesting penny facts

Did you know this about the wheat ear cent?

First year of the wheat ear Lincoln cent was 1909

The Lincoln penny replaced the US Indian Head cent coin design which ended in the middle of 1909.

The reverse of the Lincoln cent was redesigned for 2009, to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Lincoln cent and the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln! Four new designs were minted for this special occasion. Read about the 100th anniversary 2009 Lincoln pennies.

The 1909 Lincoln cent was originally intended to be a commemorative (one year issue) coin to celebrate the 100^th anniversary of Abe Lincoln’s birth. Because it was so well received, the government decided to continue with the Lincoln cent design.

The front (obverse) of the Lincoln cent is the longest running design of any size coin currently being minted.

A wheat penny is really not a penny. The term "penny" is used by Great Britain to identify their small British copper coin. The US government has never called the 1 cent coin a penny. The coin's official name is "cent".

Weight of each coin is 3.11 grams

Diameter of the cent is 19mm.

The wheat penny is not really a “penny”. The term penny comes from England’s coins. Here in the United States the government and the US mint call one cent coins “cents”.

The Lincoln Wheat cent was the first US 1 cent coin to have the Motto “In God We Trust” on it.

Designed by Victor D Brenner

Examine your cents closely and you may see that the designer’s initials V.D.B (for Victor D. Brenner) appear on the very bottom of the shoulder of Lincoln’s portrait. You will find it one wheat cents from 1918 to 1958.

A “D” below the date means the coin was minted at the Denver United States government mint. “S” means it was minted at the San Francisco mint. No letter below the date means it was minted at the Philadelphia US mint.

The Memorial back cent replaced the Wheat penny in 1959. The memorial backed cent celebrates it’s 50^th anniversary in 2009.

If you like Wheat Cents you may be interested in:

Indian Head Penny rolls

Wheat Cent bags

Buffalo Nickel rolls

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