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variants:
or less commonly wheat cent
Definition of wheat penny
: a U.S. one cent coin that has an image of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and two stalks of wheat on the reverse and that was issued from 1909 to 1958
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The first known use of wheat penny was in 1968
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