If You Have This Super Rare Penny, It Actually Might Be Worth $26,000
The next time you get handed back a bunch of change from a cashier, don’t be so quick to check your pennies in a drawer or pocket where you’ll lose them over time.
There’s a slight chance that you might have just been handed a coin that’s worth up to thousands of dollars.
According to a TikTok video from a coin-collecting enthusiast named Shaun (@BlueRidgeSilverhound), there is an extremely rare kind of penny that is extremely valuable – worth way more than one cent!
“For those of you that are searching through your change, make sure you pay close attention to your 1992 Lincoln cents,” says Shaun at the beginning of his video.
The rare coins are found in the Philadelphia and Denver minted types of pennies. Here are the two features of the valuable coin to keep an eye out for when inspecting your pennies.
Shaun instructs his TikTok users to flip the penny over and look closely at the ‘A’ and ‘M’ in ‘America.’
If those two letters are touching each other at the bottom, it’s a dead giveaway for the rare variety of coin. On normal pennies, those two letters have a pretty big gap between them.
Another thing to look out for is the ‘FG’ initials located on the back of the coin, towards the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial.
On the rare variety, there is a sizable space between the ‘FG’ and the memorial. On the normal coin, it is placed directly next to the memorial.
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If you happen to find a 1992 penny with both of these little quirks, then you could be in for a nice hunk of cash!
In his video, Shaun shows that the last known example of the rare penny sold in May of this year for just under $1,100.
For one penny! However, you could probably find ways to sell it for more. In fact, in July 2012, one of the pennies was sold for over $20,000 at an auction.
So next time you’re sorting through your change jar or find a penny on the sidewalk, it just might be worth taking an extra minute to see if it belongs to the rare variety.
To view the original TikTok video, visit the link here.
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