“Check Your Pocket Change Carefully — A Rare Lincoln Penny, Mistakenly Circulated Decades Ago and Now Valued at an Astonishing $336,000, Could Be Sitting Unnoticed in Your Coin Jar, Offering Everyday Americans the Chance to Discover a Hidden Treasure Worth a Small Fortune in Ordinary Spare Change.”

The 1943 Bronze Lincoln Cent occupies a unique place in American numismatics—a coin born not from design, but from accident during one of the most demanding periods in modern history.

In 1943, at the height of World War II, the U.S. Mint made a deliberate shift: instead of using bronze (which contains copper), pennies were struck in zinc-coated steel.continue reading …