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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Witty38, post: 1539973, member: 34290&quot;]Someone did!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Rare 1943 Penny Sells for $1 Million</b></p><p><br /></p><p>By <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/blogs/author/suzan-clarke/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/blogs/author/suzan-clarke/">Suzan Clarke</a> | <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/blogs/abc-blogs/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/blogs/abc-blogs/">ABC News Blogs</a> – 10 hrs ago&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><ul> <li>A.1943 Lincoln penny that soared in value because it was made from the &quot;wrong&quot; material reportedly has sold for $1 million.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XUwTAKQrLIrQQ73B_3pBmQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTQ1MA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/590/2012/09/26/ht-penny-jp-120926-wmain-jpg_115154.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />(PCGS)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&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.legendcoin.com/cgi-bin/inventory/main.pl" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.legendcoin.com/cgi-bin/inventory/main.pl" rel="nofollow">Legend Numismatics</a>, a rare coin dealer in Lincroft, N.J.</p><p>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.</p><p>&quot;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,&quot; Willis said.</p><p>The U.S. Mint switched from bronze planchets to zinc-coated steel for cents in 1943 because copper was needed during World War II.</p><p>&quot;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,&quot; PCGS said in a release.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rare-1943-penny-sells-1-million-112433536--abc-news-topstories.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rare-1943-penny-sells-1-million-112433536--abc-news-topstories.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rare-1943-penny-sells-1-million-112433536--abc-news-topstories.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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