What is the value of a 1963 Kennedy penny?

Answer 1

One cent. It's not a US Mint product. In the years following JFK's death a lot of companies took ordinary cents and used metal punches to stamp his image on the coins, then sell them as "commemoratives".

In reality they're considered to be altered coins and novelty items with no added value to a coin collector.

If you have a normal Lincoln cent with a small picture of JFK on it, it's a novelty item made by punching his picture onto a genuine coin. The date was obviously chosen because that was the year of his assassination.

Loads of these items were sold as keepsakes. If it's still attached to its original cardboard holder it might be worth a dollar or two, mostly for the holder and not the coin. If you got it in change it's considered to be an altered coin and has no extra value except as a curiosity.