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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The steel pennies tell a sad story, huh?
Apparently I have a 1904 dawn. & 2 years of steel pennies? 
Those are keepers, even if just for the history.
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/
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.