1792 Penny Worth $2.5 Million

Published at 9:10 am, January 13, 2015

swisshippo/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — You may want to pinch those pennies — literally.

You never know when you might get lucky and land a 1792 Birch penny, valued at a whopping $2.5 million.

A California-based coin collector reportedly spent the paltry sum on the celebrated coin, of which only 10 are known to exist.

The collector reportedly had attempted to buy the coin in 1981, where it sold for a fraction of its current value — just $200,000 at the time.