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These valuable pennies are worth up to $200,000 - and they might be in your pocket
Most pennies are worth 1 cent, but to coin collectors, some are worth more than their weight in gold. Earlier this year, an ordinary looking penny made headlines when it was found among the possessions of a man named Don Lutes. The 1943 bronze Lincoln cent attracted nearly 30 bids and sold for $204,000 in January, according to Heritage Auctions, the organization that conducted the sale. “The then 16-year-old Lutes received the copper-colored penny in change at his high school cafeteria in 1947,” David Stone, a coin cataloger for Heritage, told CNBC Make It. Lutes owned the coin until his death in 2018. In failing ... (full story)
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