When will people start hoarding their Lincoln Memorial pennies and only spend their new shield pennies? When the shield pennies first came out I kept them separate, but now they are common enough that I don't bother. Sometime (if the penny elimination doesn't happen), the memorial ones will start getting rarer and rarer and kids will get excited when they see one like whenever I got a wheat penny.
I have a 5 gallon plastic jar of sorts.
It’s full, up to within about 1 inch from the top, of pennies and nickels.
I am assuming that after Jan 1st, pennies and nickels will still be legal tender!
But they would be worth more as collectors items than as money. Unless the government makes THAT illegal!
We already are. Pennies before 1983 had more copper content. 95 percent copper. After that, 2.5 percent copper.