1935 Penny Worth?

I have in my possession a penny from 1935 and I am intrigued to know the price! Could anyone help me out??? E-Mail me @Deka0934743@gmail.com if you know anything.:slight_smile:

I just googled “What is a 1935 penny worth?” and it says the average value is 35 cents. It also gives a helpful link to CoinTrackers.com.

Smartass answer: $0.01.

But I, too, googled. This site says

And the table on this site shows 1935 pennies being worth anywhere from $0.04 to $14, depending on condition.

Dang! If I still had my penny collection that I put together as a kid it could easily be worth $20 now.

Any penny found in circulation is at the bottom end of that scale, so most likely in $0.10 range.

Does anybody really buy pennies that aren’t in mint conditions for collections? Why spend 10 cents for a worn down version when an uncirculated version can be had for buck or a mint one for $10.

I might as well share this story with you. But I think it is apropos to the OP too.

All my childhood, I was collecting wheat stalk pennies. I literally collected them for decades. Finally I had a small jar full of them. And I was naturally interested if any of them were worth anything.

So I got a coin book. And (*drumroll please… *), most of them were worth… about a penny. There was one worth about a dollar though, FWIW. But realize that was only after a lifetime of collecting them. Coin hunting in change just isn’t worth it.

Another interesting story: When my mother was young, and working with change, she used to still find Indian Head cents. (Don’t bother doing the math. My mother was born in 1927, and she had me much later in life.)

Long-story-short, most of her coins weren’t worth much either. But she did have one that dated back to Abraham Lincoln’s time (I wonder if she didn’t just buy that one).

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Check back in a few hundred years.

If you happen to have a 1943 copper wheat stalk penny, you’ve hit the mother load because it is worth something in the range of sixty to eighty-five thousand dollars. Apparently, they only made a few of them before they switched to steel in order to conserve the copper for the war effort.

Even ancient Roman coins aren’t worth very much. Here’s a lot of 70 coins for $70, just as an example.

Fun fact. If you had put the penny in a savings account at 2.75% annual interest in 1934 it would be worth about the same today. Or not, since those greedy bankers refuse to pay interest amounting to small fractions of a penny.

Not for money, but I do it for pleasure. Just 'cause it’s a simple joy. :wink:

To the OP: I’m still looking for a 1935-D.

According to the mint, they didn’t make any copper 1943 cents on purpose but rather didn’t clean quite all of the planchets out of the machinery on the change-over.