It’s the wheat that could help you garner some green from collectors. The US could ditch the penny: What happened when Canada did it? Pennies produced from 1909 to 1958 featured two sheaves of wheat ...

In the early 1940s, the U.S. used zinc-coated steel instead of copper to make pennies because the latter was needed for World War II. Today, wheat pennies are considered the most commonly ...

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 ...

Wheat allergy is most often reported in young children and may affect up to 1% of children in the U.S. One study found that two-thirds of children with a wheat allergy outgrow it by age 12. 1 However, ...