What is the most valuable year for a US cent?

Good question, but the penny that has ever brought the most money was the 1943 bronze, wheat penny. Fewer than ten of these were struck by error.

MoreIn 2011 a top-quality 1943-D bronze cent was quoted at $1.75 million. That's more than twice as much as the next-rarest US cents which are various varieties of Large Cents minted in 1793.