Certain pennies are more valuable than others. A copper penny from 1943 is valuable. At this time, steel was used to make pennies instead of copper because copper was needed for the war effort.

An example is the 1943 copper Lincoln penny, which was mistakenly minted during a World War II copper shortage and today is worth as much as $1 million. But there are also lesser-known coins that ...

Imagine having a 1943 penny in your pocket, and still being able to spend it today. It was replaced by a penny with a "long" cross, where the arms of the symbol extended to the edge of the coin.