While pennies were normally made of copper and nickel, the U.S. needed those metals for war efforts, so the mint started using steel to produce the coin. But it mistakenly still struck a batch of pennies with copper, potentially because blanks remained in the press when the mint began maki...
Sure to be the most surprising item on this list, old wooden soda crates can command a pretty penny. You won't be buying a Mercedes with the earnings, but some Coca-Cola crates top out at almost two hundred bucks, with a yellow wooden crate from 1948 going that muc...
As you may know by now, most coins that come from the San Francisco Mint have an “S” mintmark. Virtually allproof 1975 Roosevelt dimeshave an “S” mintmark. In fact, of the 2,845,450 proof Roosevelt dimes made at the San Francisco Mint in 1975,only 2 of them are knownnotto ha...