The name is based on the fact that when I first started collecting coins, I used to order bulk lots of US coins that turned out to be mostly wheat pennies, so before too long I ended up with several thousand wheat pennies.

For the benefit of non-Americans who may be unfamiliar with the term, a wheat penny is a lincoln cent of the type made from 1909 to 1958, so named because of the wheat ears on the back (see my avi).

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