Who hasn’t been stuck with extra coins when they returned from abroad, and thrown them in some jar that no one touches until the next flight? So you should check out these coins – because one of them could be worth a fortune.
A coin expert and collector named Sean took to TikTok and shared a video about an Abraham Lincoln commemorative coin designed 30 years ago by Frank Gaspero. The collector claimed that there were two types of the coin but only one of them was very valuable. Both look pretty much the same at first glance, with both embossed with the profile of Lincoln’s face on one side, and the shape of the Lincoln Memorial on the other. The small differences that distinguish the penny that became valuable were shown by Shawn in one of the videos.
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“The word ‘America’ should be stamped on one of the two sides of the coin, with the letters A and M almost touching each other. This is the rare coin. There is a possibility that you will also find the letters ‘FG’ which are the initials of the name of the designer, Franco Gaspero, engraved on the side of the monument “, the expert explained. “Finding a coin of this type may change your life. There are a limited number of these coins, when out of 9 billion pennies produced in 1992, only about ten of them are worth $26,000 today,” Shawn added.
The signs that distinguish the rare coins from the common ones (photo: from Tiktok)Coinappraiser.com has confirmed that about ten such coins do exist, which is what makes them so valuable. Whoever owns it will receive 25,850 thousand dollars for it. In 2012, a similar coin sold for $24,056.