Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — A Penny Sold for $ 1,000. [ARTICLE]

A Penny Sold for $ 1,000.

A penny was recently sold at auction in England for SI,OOO. It was of gold, worth twenty pence (40 cents), and was coined in 1257 by order of Henry HI. But two other specimens are known to be in existence. They are In the British Museum. St. Louis is acknowledged to be the largest mule market in the world.