101 Things in Your Attic That Could Be Worth a Lot of Money

119. 1943 Copper Penny

Produtor: U.S. Mint 
Preço Original: $ 0,01 *
Vale Hoje: $ 60.000 a $ 200.000 + *

Embora as moedas de aço de 1943 valham apenas alguns dólares, as de cobre de 1943 valem entre US$ 60.000 e US$ 200.000, ou até mais. As moedas de cobre de 1943 são extremamente raras. De acordo com a Casa da Moeda dos Estados Unidos, existem apenas quarenta dessas moedas, feitas de uma liga de cobre.

Pennies in the 1940s were only made of zinc-coated steel, not copper. Copper was needed for WWII, so these copper-alloy pennies were a mistake. Someone put the wrong blanks into the press hopper, and that led to the forty errors. You can determine if a penny from that year is copper, not steel, if the penny doesn’t stick to a magnet.