What's the error on a 1983 penny?

Stack's Bowers sold this 1983 Doubled Die Reverse penny for $2,640 in March 2018. The U.S. made about 7.7 billion pennies in 1983, but only about 5,000 of them are known to have been made with this doubling error, James McCartney, director of numismatics at Stack's Bowers Galleries, tells CNBC Make It.

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You may want to think twice before tossing out your loose change — one of your pennies could be worth $7,000. That's if you have a 1983 Lincoln penny, says Blake Alma, whose "CoinHub" TikTok account has over 850,000 followers. In 2017, the rare penny was auctioned for $7,050, according to Professional Coin Grading Service, one of the most popular third-party coin grading and authentication companies. Here's how to tell if you have one.

What to look for

This special penny lacks a mint mark, according to Alma's video. A mint mark is the marking on the face side of a coin that indicates where it was created. A coin with a letter "P" indicates it was made in Philadelphia, according to the United States Mint. Next, you'll want to check the bottom of the coin's other side to see if the "one cent" wording has a "doubling effect," Alma says. Coin collecting experts call this a "doubled die reverse" coin. This typically happens when the stamping machine used to imprint images onto a coin accidentally strikes the coin in a slightly different spot, resulting in a doubled image, according to the American Numismatic Association. Here's what the 1983 Doubled Die Reverse penny looks like. Stack's Bowers sold this 1983 Doubled Die Reverse penny for $2,640 in March 2018. Stack's Bowers Galleries Stack's Bowers sold this 1983 Doubled Die Reverse penny for $2,640 in March 2018. Stack's Bowers Galleries The U.S. made about 7.7 billion pennies in 1983, but only about 5,000 of them are known to have been made with this doubling error, James McCartney, director of numismatics at Stack's Bowers Galleries, tells CNBC Make It. The rarity of these misprinted pennies are what make them more valuable than ordinary pennies.

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1933 penny

If you have heard of only one rare coin, there is a good chance that it is the 1933 penny. For some reason this coin, more than any other, has lodged itself in the public consciousness. Indeed, people have spent a lifetime sifting through their coins in a vain attempt to find one. The banks possessed such large stocks of pennies in 1933 that it was not necessary to strike any more for general circulation. But there was a convention at the time that complete sets of coins of the current year were buried under the foundation stones of new buildings. Consequently three 1933 pennies were struck for buildings erected in that year, along with a small number to be kept as record copies by the British Museum and the Royal Mint Museum. No record was kept at the time of how many pennies dated 1933 were made but it is thought to be no more than six or seven. With no precise record of the number made, and with the coin having been struck to ordinary circulation standard, it seemed possible that one might turn up in everyday use, prompting a generation to search their change for the rare but ultimately elusive penny of 1933. In August 1970 it was discovered that thieves had stolen the set of coins deposited beneath the foundation stone of the Church of St Cross, Middleton, near Leeds. As a result a second set, buried beneath the foundation stone of St Mary’s Church, Hawksworth Wood, Kirkstall, Leeds, was removed on the instructions of the bishop and sold. As far as is known the third set is still in place.

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