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That tiny oversight created fewer than twenty known coins, scattered among the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco mints, each with distinct traits that specialists can trace and verify.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At first, officials dismissed the reports as trickery and counterfeits, but metallurgical testing ultimately confirmed what the rumors insisted: the coins were real, and they were extraordinary. As word spread, magnets appeared in kitchens and classrooms, separating common steel cents from non-magnetic bronze dreams. A teenager finding one in his lunch money and later selling it for over $200,000 only fueled the legend. 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