Most people toss a penny without a second glance. Yet sitting inside old coin jars, forgotten desk drawers, and inherited collections, there may be a one-cent piece that collectors and auction houses ...

The 1943 penny errors represent some of the most fascinating and valuable mistakes in American numismatics. During World War II, the U.S. Mint switched from copper to ...

Investing in the 1943 Steel Penny is like uncovering a small, silvery relic from America’s World War II era—where necessity turned copper into steel and created one of the most distinctive coins in ...

ORLANDO (CBSMiami/CNN) -- A rare penny that was found in a teen's cafeteria change in 1947 was auctioned off Thursday in Florida for a pretty penny. The coin, mistakenly minted in copper in 1943, ...

This holy grail penny is a copper penny from 1943. That might sound normal to some, but the U.S. didn’t make pennies out of copper in 1943. Instead, they were made out of steel coated in zinc. This ...

Don Lutes Jr. kept the 1943 copper penny he stumbled upon in his high school cafeteria seven decades ago in a safe behind a wall in his Massachusetts home. All US pennies were supposed to be made of ...