A Heist Movie in the Making

What makes a coin more valuable than its face value? Rarity. And you can't get much rarer than the 1933 British penny, of which there are only seven. The mint wasn't going to make any at all, but they were needed for a royal tradition. Five of those coins are accounted for, and one is missing. The seventh is ...somewhere in that area over there, but good luck getting to it.

The very idea of finding that one penny, which would be worth somewhere around £100,000, brings up the notion of a crime or crime movie, but Tom Scott nervously goes out of his way to discourage the former and encourage the latter.