If you have any 1943 wheat pennies, it’s worth taking them to a coin dealer to see how much you might get for them. This penny somehow missed the 1944 transition from steel-coated zinc to copper ...

Some coins owe their value to rare minting errors ... Leading the pack is the 1944 Steel Wheat Penny, valued at a staggering ...

Certain factors can make them worth thousands of times more than one cent though ... Heritage Auctions previously announced. Another wheat penny from 1944 — made entirely of steel, giving it a silver ...