{"id":375535,"date":"2010-03-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/discover_old_coin_value"},"modified":"2010-02-28T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:07:36","slug":"discover-old-coin-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375535","title":{"rendered":"Discover Old Coin Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/penny.jpg\" alt=\"penny\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px; width: 289px; height: 192px;\" \/>My fiance and I generally put our excess coins in a big jar and dump them into a change counter once a year. One day I noticed that a <a title=\"U.S. Penny\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._penny\">penny<\/a> in my pocket felt different. When I took a closer look, I noticed that the back or reverse side didn&#8217;t have the Lincoln Memorial on it. It said &quot;One Cent&quot; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/\" title=\"U.S. Mint\">U.S. Mint<\/a> date was from the 1920s. <\/p>\n<p>I am not a coin collector but I began to wonder if this old penny was worth more than one cent. I looked to see if the U.S. Mint could tell me and I found out that the government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treas.gov\/education\/faq\/coins\/sales.shtml#q3\" title=\"Coin Value Appraisal\">does not provide coin appraisal services<\/a>. The government does allow you to <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6541\" title=\"Redeeming Old Coins FAQ\">redeem old coins<\/a> that are damaged, but only for face value. <\/p>\n<p>I will have to go to private coin evaluators to find the value of the coin. The Department of the Treasury suggests that you go to a couple of different evaluators because coin appraisals can vary between evaluators due to various factors like what they already have in stock. What I&#8217;ve discovered on my own is that my penny is a <a title=\"Wheat Penny\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheat_cent\">&quot;wheat penny&quot;<\/a> and it may or may not be worth more than a penny. <\/p>\n<p>Have you ever discovered a valuable coin? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fiance and I generally put our excess coins in a big jar and dump them into a change counter once a year. One day I noticed that a penny in my pocket felt different. When I took a closer look, I noticed that the back or reverse side didn&#8217;t have the Lincoln Memorial on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}