So-called "wheat pennies" get their name from the back of the coin having stalks of wheat encircling the "One Cent" text. They were produced from 1909 to 1958. After that, the wheat stalks were shorn ...

As the U.S. Mint prepares to produce the final pennies put into circulation early next year, the future of the copper-colored ...

Depending on the year, mint and condition, a Lincoln Wheat penny can be valued from several hundred to millions of dollars.

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One of the rarest and costliest of the gold dollars issued by the United States, dated 1861, and struck at the ... It is of the same design as all the gold coins of this denomination issued ...