Steel Cent Sunday! Post yours as well....

Hello everyone! Here's a simple coin-themed thread for the day. It's simply called, "Steel Cent Sunday!". Please post your Steel cents, raw or graded. Natural or plated.
Here are just two of mine. One plated and one not.....

 

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Here are two of my mint error Steel Cents..





This third example was determined to be a mistake on NGC part.



It is not a steel planchet and it was proven to me by mint error specialist Joseph Cronin. He told me to put a strong magnet on the slab to see if it would attract the steel Cent. It did not.

It seems that NGC attributed a bunch of these not realizing they were not actually steel blanks!

 

1943 is my birth year. I always watched my change for coins I needed and paid special attention to getting the best Steel Cents. These are the best I ever found in circulation.

 

It is getting harder to find nice uncirulated examples of this one year only coin.

 

In Dec 1944 my father was in Belgium for a brief visit with the 9th Armored Division, 4th Army. Seems the German Army wanted the same little piece of land. Result was the Battle of the Bulge.
After that was dealt with, the 9th Armored rolled on toward Germany itself, liberating towns along the way.
At the Rhine River they captured the Remagen Bridge. My father was almost the first across the bridge but the machine gun he carried slowed him down. The Lieutenant carrying a 45 got across first but the men all told the story.
This steel Belgian coin was brought back by my father. US mint from leftover 1943 steel US cents.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-9th-armored-division

 

The blank version.



The Begium version. Minted in Philadelphia mint.


The colorized version.

 

What the heck is that?

 

Thats a DC overstrike, Struck on a genuine steel cent.

 

Kinda what I figured. I guess he added the VDB too. Love it or hate it I guess.

 

How do you get those motion pics / gifs?

 

Sorry about the glare. I'm still awful at coin photography, but this is the best looking steelie I've got. It came out of that liberty bell jar from a few months back and is in fantastic condition. My pictures simply don't do it justice.