{"id":39312,"date":"2026-02-19T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39312"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:31:10","slug":"check-your-change-a-lincoln-penny-worth-336000-might-be-sitting-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39312","title":{"rendered":"Check Your Change \u2014 A Lincoln Penny Worth $336,000 Might Be Sitting There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 1943 Bronze Lincoln Cent remains one of the most fascinating error coins in American history, a product of chance during the chaos of World War II. In 1943, the U.S. Mint switched from bronze to zinc-coated steel cents to save copper for the war effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the transition, a few leftover bronze planchets from 1942 were mistakenly left in the minting machinery. These planchets were struck with 1943 dies, creating a handful of bronze cents that should never have existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the first examples appeared in circulation in 1947, they immediately caught the public\u2019s attention. People<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1943 Bronze Lincoln Cent remains one of the most fascinating error coins in American history, a product of chance during the chaos of World War II&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39314,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions\/39314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}