Description
Ten Lincoln pennies that sold at auction for life-changing money - and exactly how to tell each one apart from the ordinary coin that looks almost the same. Real auction records from Heritage Auctions, Stack's Bowers and GreatCollections, with the grade and the price for every single coin.
For each penny you will learn the one detail that decides whether it is worth one cent or tens of thousands of dollars: where the doubling has to appear, which side of the coin to check, the exact weight in grams, and the magnet test that takes five seconds.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:33 #10 - 1972 Doubled Die Obverse - $14,400
01:16 #9 - 1982-D Small Date Bronze - $18,800
02:06 #8 - 1992 Close AM - $25,850
02:51 #7 - 1922 No D Strong Reverse - $82,250
03:40 #6 - 1955 Doubled Die Obverse - $124,875
04:26 #5 - 1999 Cent Struck With Dime Reverse - $138,000
05:12 #4 - 1914-D - $158,625
05:57 #3 - 1909-S VDB - $168,000
06:42 #2 - 1944-S Steel Cent - $408,000
07:29 #1 - 1943 Bronze Cent - $1,700,000
08:32 BONUS - 1974 Aluminum Cent You Cannot Legally Own
09:27 Three Rules Before You Check Your Change
THE TWO TOOLS YOU NEED
A digital scale that reads to 0.01 grams, and a magnet. Together they cost about $15 and they correctly identify most of the coins in this video. Bronze weighs 3.11 grams, zinc weighs 2.50 grams, and a steel cent weighs 2.70 grams and sticks to a magnet.
NEVER CLEAN A COIN
Cleaning permanently destroys a large part of the value, and professional graders can always tell.
YEARS WORTH CHECKING RIGHT NOW
1972, 1982, 1992 and 1999 are recent enough that examples are still turning up in circulation.
Which of these ten would you most want to find? Tell me in the comments.
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