Steve Contursi, President of Rare Coin Wholesalers, paid $2.76 million Friday for a 1907 gold coin that experts have called the most beautiful in U.S. currency.

A 1943-S bronze Lincoln cent. What does $72,500 get you these days? If coin collecting is your thing, it gets you a penny.

Contursi, who owns east Napa vineyard, lucks into find from 1943

A nonprofit group paid $1.5 million for a coin that was only worth five cents when it was produced more than 200 years ago.

Steven L. Contursi dropped the $8.5 million check onto the counter Tuesday before handing it over - just to make sure it wouldn't bounce.