Mainstream Media Catching On To Nickels

Funny how things get lost in the sands of time....

I imagine the worker who looked down at that handful of copper penny's that made it through the mint as just another cent, which had WAY more buying power in 1943 then it would today. An I figure if you were alive in an around that era or close to it you would agree.....

It would have took a real smart numismatic mind to look down an say...."Hey, these are special an their gonna be worth big money one day, be it 40 plus years, or longer." and bought them from change from their own pocket or whatever....

I imagine perhaps a smart worker or two knew what they would be an put them away for safe keeping, as some did get into those handful of change jars out there in the world....

I wonder when the numismatic world caught on to the rare factor and high value, as it seems like the story broke about 30 years back, which would line up with early 80's....

I imagine as early as 1950 that piece graded even way back then if such a thing existed then, would still bring big money to the right collector way back then, if in fact someone did in fact no about the rare/value of that 1943 copper penny....

Nice story, but prolly not true. From http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_min...=fun_facts2a