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Vintner pays pretty penny for rare coin - Napa Valley Register

The old adage goes, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” For vintner Steven Contursi, a penny saved is more than $72,000 burned. The Napa Valley vineyard owner and California coin dealer’s boyhood quest for a rare find recently ended with the purchase of a 1943 bronze penny to the tune of $72,500.

Contursi, new owner of Little Creek Vineyard in the Coombsville area and president of Dana Point’s Rare Coin Wholesalers, bought the coveted coin from the family of its longtime owner.

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