Day: May 3, 2012

$1 million for a penny; one of world’s rarest coins sold at auction

By Eric Pfeiffer, Friday | April 20, 2012. Yahoo! News One of the first pennies ever produced by the U.S. Mint was put up for auction Thursday night and reportedly sold for more than $1 million. Bids for the 1792 Silver Center penny reached $1.15 million Thursday night, according to Heritage Auctions, which conducted the