When I was in grade school I started collecting. I used to go to a couple neighborhood stores and one bar and they would let me go through their registers and I would replace what I took out. Later I asked if they would save the steel cents they got in. They were fairly common then. I ended up with about 200 of them. Here are my three picks of the litter.
Nice RDC-1c-1943-49. Not sure the cud. TOO MANY ON 1943!!! Listing is here: http://cuds-on-coins.com/lincoln-cent-retained-cuds-1940-1949/
I think maybe I posted this somewhere else already, but it's worth putting in a steelie Lincoln thread: