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English: Obverse and reverse of a 1943 Copper Cent, one of the more notable errors of the Lincoln Cent series. In 1943, cents were minted of steel to help conserve resources, but this substitution proved not to work.

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  • Grade: PCGS MS-61 Brown.
  • Pedigree:
    • Ex - found in circulation circa 1957 by 14-year old Marvin Beyer, who reportedly turned down an offer of $20,000 for the coin.
    • Abe Kosoff's "A.N.A. Convention Sale - A Festival of Coins" Sale, 1958, Lot 2055 (where it was withdrawn prior to the sale).
    • Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale", October 1-3, 2000, Lot 4146, illustrated, ANACS MS-61, sold for $60,375.00
    • Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. "The Benson Collection, Part III", February 24-25, 2003, Lot 148, illustrated, now PCGS MS-61 Brown (#50035361), sold for $97,750.00
Date 17 May 2006 (original upload date)
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Author The original uploader was 293.xx.xxx.xx at English Wikipedia.

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 This image depicts a unit of currency issued by the United States of America. If this is an image of paper currency or a coin not listed here, it is solely a work of the United States Government, is ineligible for US copyright, and is therefore in the public domain in the United States.
Fraudulent use of this image is punishable under applicable counterfeiting laws.

As listed by the the U.S. Currency Education Program at money illustrations, the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (31 CFR 411), permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided:
1. The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated;
2. The illustration is one-sided; and
3. All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
Certain coins contain copyrights licensed to the U.S. Mint and owned by third parties or assigned to and owned by the U.S. Mint [1]. For the United States Mint circulating coin design use policy, see [2]; for the policy on the 50 State Quarters, see [3].

Also: COM:ART #Photograph of an old coin found on the Internet

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