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  • [music playing] RICK: Hey, how can I help you?

  • RAY: How you doing?

  • I have a coin I think you might be interested in.

  • RICK: OK.

  • RAY: It's a steel penny.

  • Are you familiar with those?

  • RICK: Yes, I am.

  • Whoa.

  • It's a 1944 steel penny.

  • That is really neat.

  • I know there's less than 100 of them in existence.

  • Well, from my research, there's less than 30

  • that exist.

  • RICK: OK.

  • You know, I own a pawn shop and I deal in,

  • like, a gazillion different things,

  • so I can't know everything, even though my kids

  • tell me I'm a know-it-all.

  • [laughs]

  • RAY: I'm coming to the pawn shop today

  • to sell a 1944 steel penny.

  • This is a very rare coin.

  • It was given to me as a gift for my 70th birthday.

  • I know I don't look 70 years old,

  • but I am as old as this coin.

  • RICK: It's amazing.

  • This is a really, really weird coin.

  • This coin isn't supposed to exist.

  • It was--

  • RAY: That's correct.

  • RICK: You know, World War II happens along.

  • I mean, just everything was rationed.

  • Bacon was rationed.

  • And the US government came along and says,

  • hey, you know, we make tens of millions of pennies every year.

  • Basically told the US Mint, you have

  • to make cents out of something else,

  • because copper is a war metal.

  • So they started making the cents during 1943 out

  • of steel that were zinc-plated, and everyone absolutely hated

  • them.

  • People were confusing the steel cent for a nickel or a dime--

  • A dime.

  • RICK: So in '44, we stopped making the steel pennies.

  • But when you're making tens of millions of cents,

  • you know, steel bends and stuff like that.

  • And they think that, like, some of the blanks

  • got, like, stuck in the corners and things like that.

  • And when they pouring them out into the machines,

  • a few of these got made.

  • This coin is one of the great mistakes of the US Mint.

  • And in general, when the United States Mint

  • makes a mistake on a coin, that coin is

  • gonna be worth a lot of money.

  • How much are you asking for this?

  • $102,000.

  • RICK: Whoa.

  • I am gonna call in a friend, look this thing over 100%.

  • You know what I mean?

  • For--

  • For 102%.

  • RICK: 102%, yeah.

  • [laughs] Um, this is pretty amazing.

  • DAVE: These 1944 steel cents and the 1943 copper cents

  • are probably the most famous errors of the 20th century

  • from the United States Mint.

  • And you would not believe how many people

  • have dug through mounds and mounds of pocket change trying

  • to find one of these because if you find one, it's a gold mine.

  • And we're looking at one of them right now.

  • Yeah you are, yes.

  • RICK: So how many of those actually

  • got out into circulation?

  • DAVE: Well, that's a big question because these were

  • struck at all three mints--

  • Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco.

  • They struck-- oh, it was something

  • like 2 billion cents in '43 and '44 at the three mints.

  • And the total population of off-metal strikes is about 60.

  • And most of them were struck at Philadelphia, like this one.

  • May represent something like half the known population.

  • However, it's still a rare coin.

  • Yeah, and if there's only 30 of them

  • out of a couple billion-- DAVE: Yeah.

  • RICK: --then it's pretty rare.

  • It's a very rare coin.

  • RICK: So what do you think this would go for?

  • DAVE: Approximately $30,000.

  • And--

  • That seems awfully low to me.

  • It's a public auction, both of them.

  • That's OK, but you don't necessarily have to bring

  • this coin to a public auction.

  • DAVE: No, but public auctions are actually

  • where the most realistic prices are

  • set because every major collector in the world

  • gets those catalogs because these

  • are high profile auctions.

  • There's many sites that value that coin a lot higher--

  • DAVE: Right.

  • --than that number.

  • But the auctions are very clear in determining

  • the value of these coins.

  • OK. All right.

  • Have a good one, Dave. - All righty.

  • Thanks.

  • RAY: The value of $30,000 for this coin is extremely low.

  • This is probably one of the rarest

  • penny coins in existence.

  • I don't know where the expert came up with that value.

  • It is what it is.

  • For this thing, I would give you, like--

  • I would give you $25,000 for it.

  • No.

  • I'm not sure you know what you have here.

  • RICK: Well, I know exactly what I have.

  • No.

  • I have something that I would probably sell

  • between $30,000 and $35,000.

  • RAY: There's none for sale though.

  • There's none of these for sale.

  • This is the one.

  • RICK: OK.

  • I-- if you want--

  • This is the only-- this is the only

  • one in the state in Nevada.

  • Maybe, but it's still what it is.

  • What's the lowest you'd go?

  • You know, I'd drop it down to the minimum

  • that it's valued at, about $75,000.

  • RICK: Not gonna happen.

  • RAY: Then we will not be able to make a deal.

  • Have a good one, though. Thanks for stopping by.

  • RAY: You too.

  • No problem.

  • I think the offer of $25,000 is ridiculously low.

  • But I'll just keep it in the family,

  • and somebody eventually will sell it for a lot more

  • than I'm being offered today.

[music playing] RICK: Hey, how can I help you?

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