{"id":3567,"date":"2025-06-07T00:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:58:48","slug":"this-penny-in-circulation-is-worth-85000-heres-how-to-spot-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"This Penny In Circulation is Worth $85,000 \u2013 Here\u2019s How To Spot It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"rmwp-toggle-1594985923\" class=\"rmwp-toggle open\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>At some point during that year, however, a few copper blanks made it into the minting process\u2014 and it is these \u201cmistake\u201d coins that are now being sold for amounts somewhere in the 5 and 6 figures. As mentioned, these 1943 copper wheat pennies must be in\u00a0<em>mint<\/em>\u00a0condition to net values in the $85,000 range.\u00a0<strong>But even in lesser conditions, they have still been selling at an average price of $60,000<\/strong> (according to<a href=\"http:\/\/cointrackers.com\/coins\/13594\/1943-copper-wheat-penny\/\">)<\/a>. Saul Teichman, an expert in U.S. Mint errors explains) that collectors drive up the value of the coin, explaining:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1943 copper cents have a special cachet with collectors. As for market value, the 1943 cents sell for much more than other errors struck around the same time. \u201d \u201cMany other World War II errors are rarer than 1943 copper or 1944 steel cents but bring a fraction of a price as they lack that special cachet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; At some point during that year, however, a few copper blanks made it into the minting process\u2014 and it is these \u201cmistake\u201d coins that are now being sold for amounts somewhere in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}