Thanatos Report This Comment Date: February 18, 2008 01:16AM
This image provided by Heritage Auction Galleries shows a 1794 large cent.
About the size of a modern quarter-dollar, this 1794-dated penny with tiny stars
engraved around the back rim was sold for
$632,500 by Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas,
Texas Friday Feb. 15, 2008. Owned by Burbank, California aerospace industry
executive, Walter J. Husak, it was part of a $10.7 million auction of 300 of his
early American pennies