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goldfishthumb1 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 My dad gave me one as a little kid. Steel pennies are a neat find too - not really worth a whole lot, but it’s wild to run across one. No one even knows they existed for one year way back when copper was used for bullets.
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Dawn | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The steel pennies tell a sad story, huh?
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WedgeSocial | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Apparently I have a 1904 dawn. & 2 years of steel pennies? https://i.nostr.build/1toLnLiv3s5CNlg3.jpg
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Dawn | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Those are keepers, even if just for the history.
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goldfishthumb1 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Take those 1944 steel Pennie’s to a coin dealer and see what they’re worth. Might be winner


https://www.coinvaluechecker.com/how-much-is-a-1944-steel-penny-worth/
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goldfishthumb1 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah, just minted in 1943 to save copper for ammunition. I found one while making change for a customer a couple years ago and explained it to him and you would have thought I was interpreting a Sanskrit poem. He was floored when I said it wasn’t worth more than a couple cents.