You just need to remember the silver cutoff dates on silver coins. Pennies are only worthwhile if they aren’t a Lincoln penny. Even the commemorative pennies with the centennial backs of Lincoln are like a dollar mint for the whole set. Wheat pennies and stuff like that should be obvious just looking at the penny.
There are specific valuable pennies that are worth more than their copper value, like steel pennies from 1943, copper wheat error penny (also 1943), double die (I think from the 50s?), Indian head (pre-1909) etc.
There’s obviously a huge incentive to know whether your currency is above face value, so I feel like 99.9% of notable coinage has already been removed.
When your boomer/greatest gen relatives graduate from this planet, it’s always a good idea to look between the cushions of that mid-century sofa they couldn’t part with, and everywhere else that can hold such treasures. Sweet old Meemaw and Peepaw may have left the musty davenport in the will, but overlooked the actually good stuff!
You just need to remember the silver cutoff dates on silver coins. Pennies are only worthwhile if they aren’t a Lincoln penny. Even the commemorative pennies with the centennial backs of Lincoln are like a dollar mint for the whole set. Wheat pennies and stuff like that should be obvious just looking at the penny.
There are specific valuable pennies that are worth more than their copper value, like steel pennies from 1943, copper wheat error penny (also 1943), double die (I think from the 50s?), Indian head (pre-1909) etc.
There’s obviously a huge incentive to know whether your currency is above face value, so I feel like 99.9% of notable coinage has already been removed.
When your boomer/greatest gen relatives graduate from this planet, it’s always a good idea to look between the cushions of that mid-century sofa they couldn’t part with, and everywhere else that can hold such treasures. Sweet old Meemaw and Peepaw may have left the musty davenport in the will, but overlooked the actually good stuff!