Ebay win

[michindi]

I won 4800 wheat UNC pennies for $68.00. The auctio says they are all 1974. Good deal?

[CU Baker]

Did not know they made wheat pennies in 74.

[michindi]

Crap sorry I did not mean to put that in there..That was my other auction..lol

[fasteddy]

So-swheat...i have allot of wheat pennies but none from 1974. Great score!

[fasteddy]

it happens

[misteroman]

the 74 ones that were aluminum they did the wheat design on them! That would've been neat

[dakota1955]

try steel ones for 43

[highroller4321]

the 74 ones that were aluminum they did the wheat design on them! That would've been neat

They didn't have a wheat design on them but they are very cool. Only 1 known to still exist and its in the Smithsonian museum.

Here is a picture.

http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared ... m_cent.jpg

If you google 1974 aluminum penny you can see the coin that got graded by ICG that is on display at the Smithsonian museum.


For those that don't know there was a penny melt ban in 1974-1978. The ban went on because copper prices started to rise and they were worried about the coins being melted. In 1974 the mint made around 100,000 pennies out of aluminum for a test run. I am not sure why but they decided to scrap the idea and supposably all but 1 was melted down. The 1 was given to the Smithsonian museum and is currently on display there.

[TXBullion]

There is a second one that exists that is in the next box of pennies that I will be getting from the bank

[Roadrunner]

The reason they rejected the aluminum design was because vendors didn't like it and doctors thought the coins would cause a lot of damage if ingested.

[bman]

and doctors thought the coins would cause a lot of damage if ingested.

And zinc won't???