What do you do with your wheaties?

[Wyatt Earp]

I'm 8 coins away from filling my 9th roll of pennies, probably more than half of which are wheat pennies, going back to 1912....and they're not in very good condition due to having been in the ground. I think I'm just going to take them to the bank......since there are no key coins in the rolls. Someone might get a kick out of finding a bunch of oldies. I already had the thrill of looking at them as I accumulated them.

So....what do you do with yours?

Wyatt

[Metalman]

Hi Wyatt

The ones that are in reasonable shape go in my dug wheatie collection, the others I spend, or put in rolls and turn into the bank !!

Rick

[RingDancer]

I'm saving all my dug collection of coins for my kids. They may not be worth anything now but who knows in a hundred years what they will be worth! Been thinking of saving the newer ones too...And when I'm gone they will have something to talk about...Boy look at all these coins Mama dug...and sure that will be a conversation piece!

HH
Pat

[Wyatt Earp]

I think I'd like to use the new coins (and those with no real numismatic valuem, for charity.....and to open some of these turn of the century victorian properties around here. I'd be much more content to leave a large collection of silver coins and jewelry to my kids. Take a look in the "member announcements" forum and tell me what you think.....maybe I'm way off base, but I think it would be a win-win.

Wyatt

[Rhubarb]

Wyatt, I'd be glad to give you the face value of the coin's or whatever you think there worth for your personal gain. Send me a email and I'll discuss it with you. I love to collect Wheet's. HH David.


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[willisjj]

I have a 4 gallon Jim Beam jug that my wheaties go into. I have a whiskey bottle that I dug at an 1880's era coal mining town in Colorado that holds my mercury dimes and silver roosevelts. All the rest seem to go into some blue plastic whatnot containers that I have. I have tried putting some things in display cases but I am not very good at it and gave that up long ago, lol. Anyway, it will take me a long while to fill that Jim Beam bottle. Longer than it took to drink it empty I bet (back in my wilder days, lol).

[spanishsilver]

I put them in a large clay jug. Maybe I will go to Disney with them. HEHEHEHE

[robzombie852]

i keep them all, the good ones (no pits) go into my coin books if theres a space open for that year.

[Toadie]

The school here has asked me to have a show and tell with the pre-k kids for two years now. I take three of my detectors and some wheatie finds and normally I "plant" the coins for the kids to find. Thing is, some of the little kids find more than what I planted. One kid found 1.75 in clad before his turn was up with the detector.

Their school yard is fenced in and the school fairly new. To see the kid's faces when they pull out the wheaties is beyond description.

[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land ofthe Bluenose...we are tough here up north...so we eat them with milk. have a great day!