Your Penny Could Be Worth $500

[Norinn Radd]

Dover, DE -- A Dover businessman is hoping that a $500 treasure could boost interest in coin collecting.

 

Coin dealer Steve Bryan admits it's a publicity stunt that could raise interest in his shop. He says he put a rare penny into circulation and wants to hear from the person who finds it -- even if the finder doesn't want to sell it back to him. The coin is a 1914-D Lincoln penny worth $500 dollars.

 

Bryan says he spent it somewhere in Dover Monday. Bryan is the same dealer who garnered national attention this year when he bought some $100 dollar bills with missing serial numbers from people who got them at an area slot machine parlor. Bryan contacted federal agents about the bills, resulting in the conviction of a Treasury worker who stole them from a printing office.

 

 

[WinstonWare]

Maybe more if we MS70 it purple

[TJ'S Coins]

Nice woodgrain toning on this coin. It is an attractive piece. Too bad I don't live near Delaware

[TomB]

There is no way that the coin in the image is the one he spent, but it is still a cool way to advertise.

[Norinn Radd]

There is no way that the coin in the image is the one he spent, but it is still a cool way to advertise.

 

 

I just put that up for reference.