Trivia
A 1955 doubled die Denver mint penny was a plot device in the American movie UHF when a rich man cruelly gives a penny to a beggar. The penny is valuable and the beggar ends up with wealth after the rich man's avarice has bankrupted him. The actual 1955 doubled die pennies were from the Philadelphia mint, not Denver.
The coin is mentioned in the 2010 Stephen King novella A Good Marriage.
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