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This is weird.

Okay so check a penny. any penny. there is a certain type of space between the A and M in america on the reverse. In certain years in the 90s, most notably 1992 the mint minted most pennies with regular spacing. on 1992 and 1992D there are certain coins where the A and M almost touch. You need a magnifying glass to see it because even to the naked eye they look close.

With coins, anything outside the norm is generally collectible. Nobody wants a baseball card with an off center photo(unless its an already rare card, but generally that makes a bad card), but when the mint does something different, by error or design(such as the close AM variety), people want it.

The 1992 close AM from Philadelphia sold for 24 thousand bucks. There are only a handful(i think three) known examples, no clue how many were actually minted.

the 1992 D examples are also valuable too.

What makes this fantastic is, they werent set aside for collectors or anything. they're out there hidden in change somewhere.