Rare 1943 copper coin fetches a pretty penny in auction: $204,000
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Don Lutes Jr. kept the 1943 copper penny he stumbled upon in his high school cafeteria seven decades ago in a safe behind a wall in his Massachusetts home.
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Rare 1943 copper coin fetches a pretty penny in auction: $204,000