Author: Matthew Taub / Source: Atlas Obscura
Most pennies are worth a single cent, but one very special 76-year-old coin up for sale this week will net far, far more than that.
Copper pennies issued in 1943 look, in most ways, like any other you might find on the street, but they were never supposed to be made.
That year, pennies were to be struck from steel, in order to preserve copper for things such as shell casings and telephone wire, which were vital to the American military effort in World War II. Diligent as the mints were, some leftover copper (or bronze, technically) planchets from 1942 snuck into the coin presses and were struck into pennies in the new year. The few copper pennies that emerged in 1943 were obscured and protected by the millions of “steelies.”Just 10 to 15 of these mistake coins are believed to be in circulation today. One of them hits the auction…
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