Nearly 700 of the last pennies produced in Philadelphia and Denver were sold in an auction last week for a total of $16.76 million, according to Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a coin auction organizer based in Santa Mesa, California.
U.S. Mint presented the company with hundreds of sets pennies — each containing three of types of coins. The auction’s overall sale total was one of the most valuable in the auctioneer’s history.
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