Keeping It
Decades after he first stumbled into the coin, Don still had it. While there were plenty of opportunities for him to let go of it, he stayed steadfast in his belief. A lot of coin collectors even offered to buy the coin, but he always turned them down. There was a time when he called the U.S. Treasury for an evaluation of the Lincoln penny. Sadly, they only had bad news for him.
Keeping It
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A Fraud
The U.S. Treasury did not believe that he had a rare copper penny. In fact, they dismissed his claim as fraud! They only stuck to this refrain: “All pennies struck in 1943 were zinc-coated steel.” This was the reason Don kept the penny in his collection. One day, he got the vindication that he so deserved.
A Fraud
