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This image provided by Heritage Auction Galleries shows a 1794 large cent. About the size of a modern quarter-dollar, this 1794-dated large cent 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. (AP Photo/Heritage Auction Galleries)