Steel penny

Just found a 1943 steel penny, one sold at auction for $1mill recently.

Skeeter boat center here I come

Steel pennies are not rare. You can buy them by the roll on ebay.

The one you mention was one of these:

Story was dated Sept 2012:

A 1943 Lincoln penny that soared in value because it was made from the “wrong” material reportedly has sold for $1 million.

The penny was erroneously made of bronze instead of zinc-coated steel at the San Francisco Mint, according to UPI news agency. Texas Rangers co-chairman Bob R. Simpson bought the coin from Legend Numismatics, a rare coin dealer in Lincroft, N.J.

Professional Coin Grading Service, an organization that evaluates and grades rare coins, certified the penny in question, grading it a 62 on a scale of 1 to 70.

“The Simpson collection now contains the finest known bronze cent from each mint, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver, including the unique 1943-D bronze cent that PCGS certified after Legend acquired and sold to him for a record $1.7 million in 2010,” Willis said.

The U.S. Mint switched from bronze planchets to zinc-coated steel for cents in 1943 because copper was needed during World War II.

“By error, some bronze planchets made it into the hoppers at all three Mints, were struck and released into circulation. These have become the most famous and valuable of all off-metal errors,” PCGS said in a release.

I believe the rule is “no pic its not real”

Kind of saw that Jon, hoping a segway into others finding cool crap would sprout.

I thought I was going to retire at 8 years old when I found my first steel penny…. then…not.

I got one of the rare ones with wheat on it….

big_g wrote:

I got one of the rare ones with wheat on it….

Save it G! That’s going to be worth something someday!!

When I was 12 I mowed alotta yards and my great granddads. After I got done one day at granddads He payed me with a silver dollar. I thought to myself well that sucks what a cheap SOB. Turns out that it is a 1876 morgan silver dollar. Don’t know the value really and really don’t care, but it’s still with me. It took quite a few years before I realized that he gave me something that was pretty damn special to him. Most of my lawn mowing money went to Army surplus store buying fishing tackle but not that dollar.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

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I got one of the rare ones with wheat on it….

Save it G! That’s going to be worth something someday!!

It’s worth a penny right now.

Well, did the magnet thing to see if it was a rare copper and she stuck, so had to empty the Cabela’s cart online totaled to $5grand, cancelled the new Skeeter, and told the boss I was sorry for telling him to suck it earlier and I’ll be ready for work tomorrow.

I have silver dollars from the 1800’s that I thought were worth something. Turns out they are worth the value of the silver.

1898 newspaper as shims in old farmhouse. Looks to be swedish.

Historical society should offer a cool quarter million for it, back to new boat shopping

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When I was a kid I found an 1871 three cent piece. I have no idea what it’s worth, three cents I suppose.

S.R.

Found a Honus Wagner card in my attic, looked weathered so threw it away.

Steve, I’ll give you a $10 spot and a can of Spam.

nhamm wrote:

Well, did the magnet thing to see if it was a rare copper and she stuck, so had to empty the Cabela’s cart online totaled to $5grand, cancelled the new Skeeter, and told the boss I was sorry for telling him to suck it earlier and I’ll be ready for work tomorrow.

Now that is funny…

Steve Root wrote:

When I was a kid I found an 1871 three cent piece. I have no idea what it’s worth, three cents I suppose.

S.R.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Steve, I’ll give you a $10 spot and a can of Spam.

Steve that must be worth a lot. BK giving up Spam for it? It’s got to be valuable.

Spam is not valuable unless you account for your savings in toilet paper and Milk of Magnesia.

Scrap prices are up

Literally laughed out loud!! At telling your boss to suck it

A buddy of mine who used to fish a lot ,no longer fishes at all is big time in coin collecting bought a “lot” of coins from a student in Hawaii . Turns out within the lot there was a die cracked error coin. The silver dollar sold for over ten grand !

That Spam offer sure sounds tempting, but I think I’ll pass. That 3 cent piece has become something of a family heirloom. I actually found it tearing apart an old Juke Box.

Now what I’d really like to find is an old Leonard Split Bamboo fly rod.

S.R.

I have about 3 gallons of those copper beauty’s,going on a treasure hunt today!