16-year-old Coin Numismatist Gets Hold Of A Rare Coin As A Spare Change,uncovers Its Worth Years Later

The Accident

According to Heritage Auctions, the 1943 copper penny was an accident, an error of production. Around the end of 1942, a small number of bronze planchets (used to stamp a coin) got caught in the trapdoors of the mobile tote bins and went unnoticed when they were filled with zinc-coated steel planchets in 1943. As stated by Heritage Auctions, “They eventually became dislodged and were fed into the coin press, along with the wartime steel blanks.”