Teenager Finds Strange Coin, 70 Years Later The Coin Is Worth A Fortune

While this might sound a little bit crazy at first, some old and rare pennies can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Finding one of these pennies is just like winning the lottery ticket and this is exactly what happened when a 16-year-old, Don Lutes Jr., found one of these rare coins.

20. Ancient Coins

There are lots of people who dedicate their lives to finding ancient coins and selling them for large sums of money.

However, the ones who usually find this type of coins are just lucky and most of the time, they have no idea how much these coins are worth.

19. Precious Coin

Our story begins when a 16-year-old Don Lutes Jr. is given the coin featured in the picture above as spare change after eating at a local cafeteria. This happened back in 1947 and the young man noticed that there was something strange about the coin right from the start.

18. Something Strange

The young man knew that this coin was special, he could feel it and since he was a coin collector himself, he decided to pocket the coin and place it in his collection.

17. Valuable Object

Don Lutes Jr. was a young man who was in possession of something really valuable. However, he had no idea about this and he would simply keep the coin in his home.