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It will be more accurate to say that this is a small American copper coin in denomination of only one cent – 1943 release, however the million dollars that they can pay for it today, how experts say the minimum price of such a rarity. For instance, a similar coin in 2010 went under the hammer for 1.7 million dollars.
What is the value of this penny? Fact that in the US in forties a trifle was made of steel, since all copper went to military needs, and she was even sorely lacking. By however, in 1943, a one cent coin was accidentally minted from copper – in quantity, as the numismatists now consider, is forty pieces.
US authorities have long denied this mistake, although they found experts who discovered copper strips for minting one cent (1943 release) at the Mints of San Francisco, Philadelphia and Denver
76 years have passed since then, and today confirmed the existence of 12 such rare copper American cents. The rest were allegedly lost along with steel trifle as a result of the flood in 1943, because then not were discovered by US Mint quality controllers.
The copper penny that is being auctioned today by Heritage special twins. The fact is that American Don Lutes Jr. (Don Lutes Jr.) accidentally received this coin as a change in school buffet in 1947.
First, the teenager was convinced that by a miracle the coin he had won – fake, because at that time the US Mint supposedly didn’t release copper trifle, then the youth was intensely attacked by numismatists with the most tempting offers, but Don didn’t agree to anything: no one even know why? It so happened that the American kept a rare copper penny for almost seven decades. But last September years the owner of this unique rarity went to another world, and his the heirs decided to put up a rare coin for sale.
According to experts, this copper penny will leave no less than 1.6 million dollars, or even more …
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