"Miracle penny" to go up for auction

[MiddenMonster]

Did anyone ever hear how this turned out? I did a Google News search, but didn't find anything recent.

Never mind. I added "penny" to the existing search criteria "Trickett" on my Google search and found this, and the news is actually pretty good:

A penny that saved a British soldier’s life in the First World War has just been bought by his grandson for £5,445

Turns out that this story turned out alright after all. His granddaughter auctioned the penny for charity, and it was bought by his grandson, Nigel Trickett, who is a cousin of the granddaughter. The granddaughter, Maureen Coulson was "shocked" to find that her cousin bought it. From the article:

Mr Trickett, 55, who runs a carpet business in Owston Ferry, near Doncaster, said: ‘Private Trickett was my granddad and we wanted to keep the medals and penny in the family.

‘It will be handed down. It’s where it belongs and we’ll take a lot of pride in showing it to the family members.

‘When the story went viral it brought 50 members of the family together – we all got in touch with each other.

‘My granddad’s story is very interesting and true. Everything wouldn’t have happened in our family the way it has without that penny.

I still think there was something shifty about his granddaughter selling it in the first place, but it all worked out in the end; the penny is still in the family, and the money supposedly went to charity. And after all this I suspect that it will now always remain in the family, even if the granddaughter is never invited to Boxing Day celebrations ever again...

 

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[A2coins]

My Mom had a half dollar that was in the shirt pocket of one of her relatives that looked just like that

 

[MiddenMonster]

My Mom had a half dollar that was in the shirt pocket of one of her relatives that looked just like that

What was the date on the coin?