Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I hokona tētahi tauira onge o te pene tuatahi o Amerika mō te $1.175 miriona i tētahi hokonga i Baltimore, Maryland. Ko te pene utu nui, i ahu mai i te tau 1792, ko tetahi o nga pene Birch e whitu anake e mohiotia ana kei te noho. I tū te kirimana i te ahiahi o te Rāpare, ā, koia tētahi o ngā mea tino nui o te hokonga e rua rā o ngā moni iti o Amerika, ngā mētara me ngā moni pepa. Ko te 1792 Birch Cents - tētahi o te whitu anake e mōhiotia ana - i hokona mō te $ 1.175 miriona i tētahi hokonga i Baltimore. I kati te kirimana i te Rāhoroi i te Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo i te Baltimore Convention Center. Ko te Stack's Bowers Galleries o Irvine, California, i whakarite i te hokomaha i te wa o te Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo i te Baltimore Convention Center. Ko te tapanga utu $1.175 miriona kei roto ko te utu a te kaihoko. I pānuihia i roto i te pukapuka hoko: 'Ko te pene Birch, ko te tuatahi o te ahurea e mohiotia ana puta noa i te ao - koinei te pene tuatahi o Amerika.' I kii a Vicken Yegparian o Stack's Bowers i koa ia ki te utu hoko, i kii te Baltimore Sun. Ka mea a Yegparian: 'Ehara i te rā katoa e hokona ai e koe he taonga kotahi miriona tāra te utu. Ko te kaupapa matua ko te aroha ki te hītori, he aroha ki te ataahua me te tikanga o te moni. 'I roto i nga waahanga taumata-nui, ko etahi o nga mea e whakamanamana ana: '"Kei a au tetahi mea kaore koe. '" I pānuihia i roto i te pukapuka hoko: 'Ko te pene Birch, ko te tuatahi o te ahurea e mohiotia ana puta noa i te ao - koinei te pene tuatahi o Amerika.' Ko Stack's Bowers Galleries o Irvine, California, i whakarite i te hokomaha, ā, i hari rātau ki te utu hoko. Kaore i mohiotia te kaihoko, engari ko te moni - i tuhia i te tau i hangaia ai e te Kaunihera te US Mint, e iwa tau i muri i te Pakanga American Revolutionary - ko te tuarua o te Birch Penny i hokona i tenei tau. Ko te tangata i whiwhi i te moni i kī mai nō Texas ia. Ko te tuatahi i hokona e tētahi kaihoko moni onge o Beverly Hills i te marama o Hanuere mō te $2.585 miriona i tētahi hokonga i Florida. Ko Kevin Lipton, 55, te kaituku i toa i taua pene. Ka mea ia: 'Kei te rite ki to tatou pene tuatahi rawa. 'He moni tino whakamiharo tēnei....
I hokona e te tangata kore ingoa mai i Texas he moni utu nui i Maryland i te Rāpare. I hokona te Birch Penny i te Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo i Baltimore. Ko te moni onge tētahi o ngā pene Birch e whitu anake e mōhiotia ana e tīari ana. Ko te tuarua o te 1792 Birch Penny i hokona i te tīmatanga o tēnei tau i te marama o Hanuere mō te $ 2.585 miriona.