https://dlscollege.com/the-lincoln-wheat-penny-valued-at-2-2-billion-still-in-circulation/ I got this in my Google news feed today. Title says there's a wheat penny worth $2.2 billion... The article doesn't even mention a wheat penny once. But it does say the bicentennial quarter can be worth $2.2 billion. And then it says a 1946 Roosevelt dime is also worth $2.2 billion. And then it says a 1971 Eisenhower dime is worth $2.2 billion. Looks like it's some sort of foreign news company from what I could find. Ironically, the first thing it says in their 'About Us' section is, "Welcome to DLSC – Your Gateway to Reliable, Authentic, and Unbiased News" I wouldn't be surprised if the entire thing was generated by AI. Still thought it was funny though
There are websites you can run the text through to see if something was written by AI. That article: Your text is likely to be written by AI.
Google keeps serving up stories like that in my news feed. Yes, AI generated, and the "values" keep multiplying - I've seen several headlines teasing coins worth hundreds of millions, but none I'd seen had cracked the billion-dollar threshold. I always tell Google "no more stories from this source", but five new "news outlets" rupture out for every one I try to cauterize. When someone decides to let a LLM start making actual investments, I wonder whose money it'll be spraying around?
This. For some reason, Bicentennial quarters seem to come up a lot in these "articles". 2.2 billion, huh? That's more than the several million quoted for a Bicentennial quarter in one of these links that a coworker shared with me. Yep. It's likely this stuff wasn't even written by a human being. It's all pure AI hallucination. Sludge, to use a recently-coined term for bad AI content.
Lately "yootoob" has lots of AI videos showing worthless cents , saying many are worth millions. I feel sorry for the poor slobs posting in the comments thinking that their 1964d Lincoln is worth a fortune. Shouldn't be allowed
I have a very vague recollection that one did exist. It was circa 1977, at a meeting of the New Jersey Numismatic Society. A member had a slide set of error Eisenhower Dollars which included 1973-S pieces that were struck on planchets other than dollar blanks. I remember thinking, “How the heck could those planchets have gotten into that area of the mint when they had nothing to do with the coins that they were producing? I short time later, I read that the government had seized a group of these pieces. They had been illegally produced at “midnight mint” and had gotten out into numismatic circulation. I think that an Ike Dollar on a dime was one of those pieces.
Here you go. They also come struck on proof and regular half dollar planchets, struck on a quarter planchet, and struck on cent planchet. Undated $1 Eisenhower Dollar -- Struck on a Dime Planchet -- MS63 PCGS https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/und...6-5453.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515
...and just when I thought I was being a funny smart-aleck, someone with FACTS and KNOWLEDGE totally DESTROYS my fun~! Makes me wonder just how much of Ike's face got on that dime... His nose?
