Wheat Penny Values - Coin Values Table for Wheat Pennies
Coin Values for Wheat Cents are Listed Below
The wheat penny values in this price guide are the actual prices coin dealers will pay you for your wheat pennies. These are not the retail coin prices found in nearly all other coin price guides, which, if relied upon to appraise your wheat cents, will result in great disappointment when you go to sell them. If you use a wholesale coin value guide like this one, you will get an honest appraisal of what your wheat pennies are worth if you had to sell them today.
All wheat pennies are worth at least triple their face value unless they are badly damaged or almost totally worn out. Some wheatback cents, though, called key dates, are worth hundreds, even thousands of times their face value! Find out how much your wheat pennies are worth in this coin values table below. Keep in mind that these are guidelines. To get today's current market prices, you should contact a coin dealer.
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The prices in this table are approximately what a dealer will give you for average grade coins of the type typically found in old jars, shoe boxes, Whitman folders, dealer "unsorted lots," etc. (See image above for an example of "average grade.") If your coins are still uncirculated, or haven't been worn much, the value could be 5 to 10 times as high or more. The mint mark, if the coin has one, is right below the date.
Special Note: The price of copper has risen to the point where copper U.S. pennies are worth 3 or more cents each just in copper bullion value. A coin dealer is still unlikely to give you more than what is listed in the table, though, because he has to make a profit, although some dealers are paying 3 and half cents ($0.035) now for common wheats. I strongly recommend that you save your copper pennies (rather than sell them at bullion value) because so many copper cents are being melted down right now that they are bound to rise in value!
Wheat Penny Values (in U.S. Dollars)
| Date | Value | Date | Value | |
| 1909 | 1.15 | 1935 | 0.04 | |
| 1909 VDB* | 9.00 | 1935-D | 0.05 | |
| 1909-S | 47.00 | 1935-S | 0.06 | |
| 1909-S VDB* | 550.00 | 1936 | 0.04 | |
| 1910 | 0.16 | 1936-D | 0.05 | |
| 1910-S | 5.85 | 1936-S | 0.06 | |
| 1911 | 0.15 | 1937 | 0.04 | |
| 1911-D | 3.45 | 1937-D | 0.05 | |
| 1911-S | 15.50 | 1937-S | 0.06 | |
| 1912 | 0.70 | 1938 | 0.04 | |
| 1912-D | 4.35 | 1938-D | 0.07 | |
| 1912-S | 9.50 | 1938-S | 0.10 | |
| 1913 | 0.39 | 1939 | 0.04 | |
| 1913-D | 1.65 | 1939-D | 0.09 | |
| 1913-S | 4.85 | 1939-S | 0.05 | |
| 1914 | 0.32 | 1940 | 0.03 | |
| 1914-D | 125.00 | 1940-D | 0.04 | |
| 1914-S | 10.15 | 1940-S | 0.04 | |
| 1915 | 1.00 | 1941 | 0.03 | |
| 1915-D | 1.00 | 1941-D | 0.04 | |
| 1915-S | 6.65 | 1941-S | 0.04 | |
| 1916 | 0.10 | 1942 | 0.03 | |
| 1916-D | 0.35 | 1942-D | 0.03 | |
| 1916-S | 0.65 | 1942-S | 0.03 | |
| 1917 | 0.12 | 1943*** | 0.12 | |
| 1917-D | 0.15 | 1943-D*** | 0.13 | |
| 1917-S | 0.16 | 1943-S*** | 0.15 | |
| 1918 | 0.12 | 1944 | 0.03 | |
| 1918-D | 0.16 | 1944-D | 0.03 | |
| 1918-S | 0.14 | 1944-S | 0.04 | |
| 1919 | 0.12 | 1945 | 0.03 | |
| 1919-D | 0.12 | 1945-D | 0.03 | |
| 1919-S | 0.14 | 1945-S | 0.04 | |
| 1920 | 0.06 | 1946 | 0.03 | |
| 1920-D | 0.08 | 1946-D | 0.03 | |
| 1920-S | 0.16 | 1946-S | 0.04 | |
| 1921 | 0.12 | 1947 | 0.03 | |
| 1921-S | 0.50 | 1947-D | 0.03 | |
| 1922** | 415.00 | 1947-S | 0.04 | |
| 1922-D | 8.70 | 1948 | 0.03 | |
| 1923 | 0.07 | 1948-D | 0.03 | |
| 1923-S | 1.00 | 1948-S | 0.04 | |
| 1924 | 0.06 | 1949 | 0.03 | |
| 1924-D | 17.75 | 1949-D | 0.03 | |
| 1924-S | 0.50 | 1949-S | 0.04 | |
| 1925 | 0.06 | 1950 | 0.03 | |
| 1925-D | 0.07 | 1950-D | 0.03 | |
| 1925-S | 0.18 | 1950-S | 0.03 | |
| 1926 | 0.06 | 1951 | 0.03 | |
| 1926-D | 0.07 | 1951-D | 0.03 | |
| 1926-S | 3.15 | 1951-S | 0.03 | |
| 1927 | 0.06 | 1952 | 0.03 | |
| 1927-D | 0.08 | 1952-D | 0.03 | |
| 1927-S | 0.40 | 1952-S | 0.03 | |
| 1928 | 0.06 | 1953 | 0.03 | 1928-D | 0.07 | 1953-D | 0.03 |
| 1928-S | 0.35 | 1953-S | 0.03 | |
| 1929 | 0.07 | 1954 | 0.04 | |
| 1929-D | 0.07 | 1954-D | 0.03 | |
| 1929-S | 0.08 | 1954-S | 0.03 | |
| 1930 | 0.06 | 1955 | 0.03 | |
| 1930-D | 0.06 | 1955-D | 0.03 | |
| 1930-S | 0.08 | 1955-S | 0.04 | |
| 1931 | 0.30 | 1956 | 0.03 | |
| 1931-D | 2.35 | 1956-D | 0.03 | |
| 1931-S | 50.00 | 1957 | 0.03 | |
| 1932 | 0.75 | 1957-D | 0.03 | |
| 1932-D | 0.75 | 1958 | 0.03 | |
| 1933 | 0.50 | 1958-D | 0.03 | |
| 1933-D | 1.00 | |||
| 1934 | 0.04 | |||
| 1934-D | 0.08 |
Notes:
*The letters V.D.B. appear on the reverse at the bottom.
**The D mint mark is missing because of die flaws.
***Wartime issue made of steel is silvery in color.
Sources include the "Blue Book Handbook of U.S. Coins," The Coin Dealer (CDN monthly,) various coin dealer "buy" offers in Coin World and Numismatic News, and my own personal knowledge of Wheat Cent prices.
1914-D Wheat Penny image courtesy of Harlan J. Berk, Ltd.
If you have a lot of coins to look up values for, and want to know the realistic prices that dealers will pay you, I recommend the Blue Book of U.S. Coin Values, which is the wholesale price guide that dealers use. It costs about $10 and is well-worth the small investment. Compare prices for the Blue Book.
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