Recently a penny that used to worth only 1 cent way back in the late 1700s was sold at auction in Florida for a stunning record braking $1.38 million! Now that’s one pricy penny.
The supposedly “historic” penny was made at the Mint in Philadelphia in 1793, during the first year that the United States started making its own coins after gaining independence from Great Britain.
You can read more at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/historic-penny-sells-1-38-million-florida-auction-setting-record-article-1.1002456
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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