If you're walking through the grocery store and see a penny lying on the floor, do you pick it up? What if it's a quarter? How much money has to be there for it to be worth bending over and picking it up?

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Well, even if it's only a penny, you better go ahead and pick it up because if it's one of these collectible coins it could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Little Pieces of Copper Worth $100,000 to $3 Million

There are a handful of pennies that are worth way more than just a few cents, but they have to be the correct year and in pristine condition.

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According to the Spruce Crafts website, there are more than a dozen pennies that are extremely rare and can bring in an insane amount of money if sold to the right collector.

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Since the Lincoln penny is what most collectors started with, the pennies hold a "special place in almost every coin collector's heart, demand for high-quality coins can drive the value through the roof."

Check Your Coins for These Extremely Valuable Pennies

A penny that sold at a Chicago auction in 2014 went for $258,000 and is 1 of only 1,194 that were ever minted. According to Spruce Crafts, the 1909 VDB Matte Proof Lincoln Penny is coveted because it has "all three of the coin designer's initials: VDB."

The 1958 Double Die Obverse Cent is known as "the most exceedingly rare and intriguing Lincoln cents" with only 3 of these pennies in existence. In March of 2018, one of these pennies sold at auction for $336,000.

The holy grail of pennies is the 1943-D Lincoln Bronze Cent which reportedly had fewer than 20 in circulation from the Philadelphia and San Francisco mints. In 2010, the penny sold in a private sale for $1,700,000.

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