What do you do with your Wheat Pennies?

[BryanM362]

I have been saving all the Wheaties I find, and have a pretty big pile of them. I was thinking yesterday, what am I ever going to do with them? Some of them are pretty rough. So, I may just sort through and keep the better condition, and older, one's and dump the rest.

What do you all do with your Wheaties?

 

[surfchunker]

throw mine in a can. the toasted ones I donate to Detect America Kids Program. they have seeded hunts for kids especially kids with Autism

 

[ironsight]

There're sitting somewhere collecting cob webs. One Winter day when i got nothing to do, gonna go through them all for key dates.
Far as i'm concerned, they're not any better than an ordinary later date copper penny.
Maybe some day they'll be worth something collector wise. Maybe in a hundred years from now!

The only good thing about finding wheats is they usually are a silver heads up.

 

[utmike]

Like the others, I have a pile of them collecting dust in a can... I have seen them sold in bulk online and at coin shows for their copper value at 1 1/2 to 2 times face value. Every now and then, we'll get a decent semi key like an 11-S and throw it on ebay with the honest caveat that it was dug. You'd be suprised how well they sell to collectors trying to fill a tough slot in their album.

 

[Goes4ever]

I quit cleaning mine couple years ago, once I reach 400-500 I put them on ebay as "uncleaned, unsearched, wheat pennies found with metal detector" I average 9-11 cents each that way......I have sold 4 or 5 lots like that, and each time get 45-50 bucks