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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 226090, member: 6036"]But not this particular piece, which is a fantasy by the seller. It's just a standard '44, which for some reason he thinks is special. I was just saying that there's no way for a real steel / zinc planchet to ever be RED, regardless of date.  According to NGC and PCGS census, there are no steel planchet cent slabs graded as red  - either '43 or '44.  On steel, ferrous oxide = not good (and definitely not RD). That was the play on words with Roy - they're "red" of sorts, but not the good kind. The note from Heritage describing the three 1944s as "1944 1C, RD" is either <ul> <li>erroneous (if these are steel planchets - no NGC / PCGS slab says RD for a steel planchet)</li> <li>it's describing a regular 1944, which are sometimes red. This isn't likely, since you found the extra three '44s in the "high price bin" ! So they're certainly steel planchets, and thus not RD.</li> </ul>[/QUOTE]