What are all the rarest pennies?

Answer 1

No. They were minted in the hundreds of millions.

You may be confusing those dates with 1943 copper cents, which were struck in error and ARE rare. Copper was a strategic war metal needed for ammunition, so in 1943 the Mint struck cents out of zinc-coated steel. A few copper blanks left over from 1942 accidentally got mixed in with the steel blanks and were struck with the 1943 date.

Genuine 1943 cents sell for tens of thousands of dollars. All known coins have been accounted for, so don't expect to find a real one in change. There are lots of counterfeits though, either steel cents that were copper-plated or 1948 cents where the 8 was altered into a 3.

Answer 2

No.

All 1983 cents were minted on zinc planchets coated with a thin layer of copper. The last solid copper cents were minted in mid-1982, and there are no reports of any copper blanks accidentally being mixed with the zinc ones in later years.

Bottom line: as far as anyone knows, there was no repetition of the accident that allowed some copper cents to be minted back in 1943.

Answer 3

To the best of my knowledge, the only valuable 1983 cents are those with a small overdate in the "83", but generally only if the coin is uncirculated or almost uncirculated.

Answer 4

That sort of information could fill a book of hundreds of pages.

Please be a bit more specific.

Pennies are coins.

Answer 5

A 1930 penny.