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Lunch money change and kept for years....
ricko
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This should be interesting....What a great find... Cheers, RickO
https://www.foxnews.com/science/holy-grail-found-rare-penny-might-be-worth-1-7m-after-it-was-found-in-boys-lunch-money
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Good story. Thank you for posting this.
Very cool
Cent to a New Height
This is one of the greatest, if not THE greatest young coin collector stories of the Century.
To sleep............perchance to dream......................
Pete
It certainly paid off for his NOK that he was quite an astute YN.
Cheers
Bob
@ricko Thanks for the article. It is sad that Mr. Lutz will never realize the true (?) value of his find.
The cent is currently at the low 6-digits $ at HA.
My dad tells me he owned one for a short period of time in the 1980's - It was given to him as a $30k down payment on some large fruit warehouse deal he was working on.
When I asked what the hell he did with it, he cannot recall. He's fairly certain he sold it but doesn't remember who or how.
Yeah, I told him what it'd be worth today had he kept it...
Click on this link to see my ebay listings.
Are we sure it's not an old fantasy piece?
@3stars... The cent is in an NGC slab.... Cheers, RickO
$1.7M value is unrealistic in my opinion. That penny is kind of beat up.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Yah, maybe 10% of that
Such a cool story
Cool vid and story Rick!
Uh, not to kill the buzz, ....but.....
"one coin was found by Don Lutes Jr. in his school cafeteria in March..... 1947 ."
yes that is a way cool story
Absolutely fabulous story, thanks for sharing !!!
Looks like tradedollar's $170K estimate was close...$204K
https://cbsnews.com/news/rare-1943-penny-sells-for-200000-far-below-expectations-heritage-auctions-don-lutes-jr/
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
@mr1874 .... That surprises me.... sure, not a high grade coin... but one of the more fabled rarities....I thought it would go much higher, certainly above 500K....I was wrong....again...
Cheers, RickO
I agree, @ricko .
I thought it would go for 220-250k all in.