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A penny minted at the San Francisco Mint in 1969 may be worth up to $600,000 due to what is referred to as a “doubled die obverse” mistake made during the minting process. <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – A penny minted at the San Francisco Mint in 1969 may be worth up to $600,000 due to what is referred to as a “doubled die obverse” mistake made during the minting process.<\/p>\n
Stack’s Bowers Galleries\u00a0<\/a>says a doubled die happens when a coin die gets a misaligned secondary impression from a hub during manufacturing and results in the design appearing doubled.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rare 1969 penny minted in San Francisco\u00a0 <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n According to Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the 1969-S Lincoln Memorial Cent\u00a0Doubled Die Obverse “is an extremely desirable variety, having an estimated population of 50 to 60 pieces based on combined certification service statistics.”<\/p>\n Online precious metals e-commerce company\u00a0SD Bullion<\/a> calls the coin “The most famous error coin from the Lincoln penny is the 1969-S Doubled Die Error, Lincoln Penny, with prices ranging from $31,500 to $605,000.”<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n If you come across what you think is a rare and valuable coin, you should locate a reputable coin dealer to evaluate the coin.\u00a0 The American Numismatic Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to coin collecting and the study of numismatics, has an\u00a0online search directory<\/a> to find a dealer near where you live.<\/p>\n US Mint ends production of the penny <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n In November, the\u00a0U.S. Mint ended production of the penny, abandoning the 1-cent coins that were part of American culture for more than 230 years but became nearly worthless.<\/p>\n When the penny was introduced in 1793, it could buy a biscuit, a candle or a piece of candy. Now most of them are cast aside to sit in jars or junk drawers, and each one costs nearly 4 cents to make.<\/p>\n Billions of pennies are still in circulation and will remain legal tender, but new ones will no longer be made.<\/p>\n The Source: This article includes information from Stack’s Bowers Galleries, SD Bullion, the American Numismatic Association, and previous FOX Local reporting. This story was reported from Orlando.<\/p>\n Consumer<\/a>San Francisco<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A penny minted at the San Francisco Mint in 1969 may be worth up to $600,000 due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,7948,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-449285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-consumer","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}