Wheat Pennies These pennies, which depict an image of Abraham Lincoln on one side and two stalks of wheat on the other, were minted from 1909 until 1958.
According to CoinCollecting.com, the cent was 95% copper until copper was needed for war in 1943 and the penny’s composition changed to zinc-coated steel for the year.
Double Die Pennies Another rare penny is the “double die” penny. In January, a 1958 double die penny sold for a record $1.136 million through an auction
held by GreatCollections Coin Auctions, the fastest-growing coin and paper money auction house in the U.S., reported Fox Business.
Double die pennies are coins that have been struck twice by a metal die during the minting process.
Blake Alma, coin collector and founder of the coin-collecting blog CoinHub in Lebanon, Ohio, told Fox News Digital that doubled die pennies
can have doubled artwork and text that are a “minor deviation” or a “major structural anomaly.”