(NEXSTAR) — The U.S. could move to ditch the penny but that doesn’t mean you should start throwing away your one-cent pieces — especially if they contain a certain grain on them. The penny ...

At some point, when Mark Patinkin accepts that coins – like flip phones – are no longer relevant, he’ll hit a bank to trade ...

It’s the wheat that could help you garner some green from collectors. Local convenience store sells top-prize scratch-off winner Pennies produced from 1909 to 1958 featured two sheaves of ...

That’s pretty much what coins have ... keenly when pennies had value, in the era of the “five-and-dime.” I made frequent pilgrimages to Woolworth's, its penny-candy section a mecca.

If you have any 1943 wheat pennies, it’s worth taking them to a coin dealer to see how much you might get for them. This penny somehow missed the 1944 transition from steel-coated zinc to copper ...

The combination of "copper" and "penny" might not seem like the best formula for valuable coins considering that you can find ...

A 1943 wheat penny can be worth anywhere from about a dime to several thousand dollars, depending on condition. The process was somewhat reversed with shell casings sent back to the United States ...