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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 879477, member: 4703&quot;]&quot;Penny&quot; is a British denomination.&nbsp; 1/100 of dollar is a &quot;cent&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;D/S&quot; mintmark results from a Denver mark being punched over a pre-existing San Francisco mark.&nbsp; These are quite rare.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Standard Catalog does not explain what it is referring to as &quot;Type I&quot; and &quot;Type II&quot;.&nbsp; Only the Type I coins are listed at more than $1,000, and my assumption has always been that they are the extremely rare - virtually never seen - steel cents with the 1944 date and the repunched mintmark, but as I am not a collector of US coins, I can give no assurance about the accuracy of that assumption.&nbsp; There is no reference to such a valuable coin in my old edition of the US Redbook.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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