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Vinca

(54,330 posts)
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 06:06 PM Feb 21

So this is amusing.

I went to the bank one day last week and the teller and I were talking about pennies. She told me people have been coming in wanting to buy large amounts of pennies because they think they're going to be collectibles in the future. Uh huh. Maybe 200 years from now.

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Bayard

(30,271 posts)
1. There's a TV ad now,
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 06:17 PM
Feb 21

Advertising a roll of 100 new pennies, for like $10. Collectible, you know!

LogDog75

(1,372 posts)
2. I don't think the penny is collectable
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 06:39 PM
Feb 21

except for certain dates and their conditions. In 2024, over 3 billion pennies made so it's a sucker's gamble to hoard pennies made in the past 50 or more years. The ones that would be collectable would be the old Wheat Stalk pennies were made which was from from 1909 - 1958. I have a number of these including some Steel Wheat Stalk pennies I'll held onto for decades.

Vinca

(54,330 posts)
3. There's always the odd chance you get something with an erroneous strike of some sort, but the chances are
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 09:40 PM
Feb 21

slim to nil. The people looking to buy the pennies from the bank seem to think that just because they're being discontinued will make them valuable someday.

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