This listing is mostly from Heritage and Ron Guth with additions / corrections by me.
1) MS63 Brown PCGS. Wexler-Flynn #3 "Found in the year of issue in a Mint-sewn bag of 1943-S steel cents" by Merl D. Burcham, per its early appearances with Superior Galleries (the Superior lot description from February 1974 is reprinted in Dr. Sol Taylor's Standard Guide to the Lincoln Cent, fourth edition [1999], page 138); later to error coin dealer Frank Spadone; part of a $15,000 trade of "regular and pattern silver coins valued at that time [1965] between Spadone and Walter Farris of Bristol, Tennessee, per the Superior ads (and covered in a Coin World story on page 41, January 20, 1965); authenticated at some point by Walter Breen (before 1965, by which time Farris had obtained the certification); Dr. Charles L. Ruby Part I (Superior, 2/1974), lot 1991; Jan Bronson; Alan Van Vliet, in 1976; Margene Heathgate (Superior, 6/1997), lot 145, realized $49,500; Dr. Jon Kardatzke (Goldberg Auctions, 2/2000), lot 257, as MS61 Brown NGC, brought $115,000; Legend Numismatics to Bob Simpson as MS62 Brown PCGS for $1 million (9/2012); Bob R. Simpson (Heritage 11/2020) lot 3009, $504,000.
2) AU58 PCGS. Wexler-Flynn #1 Central States (Kurt Krueger, 4/1989), lot 979; Dave Berg in 1989; private collection; Haig Koshkarian (American Numismatic Rarities, 3/2004), lot 380; Simpson Long Beach Signature (Heritage, 2/2016), lot 3087, realized $282,000. Formerly graded AU58 NGC, still listed on the NGC Census Report. PCGS certification #18523980.
3) AU55 PCGS. Wexler-Flynn #2 Fred Weinberg in 1979; Dwight Berger in 1983; purchased from an unspecified auction "sometime during the 1980s" and newly certified at PCGS in autumn 2015. Previously authenticated by ANACS. Sorensen (Heritage, 1/2016 FUN Signature), lot 5267, brought $211,500. PCGS certification #25653505 & #35232166.
4) AU55 NGC. Wexler-Flynn #4 Saint Louis Signature (Heritage, 3/1989), lot 56; Saint Louis Signature (Heritage, 3/1989), lot 56; Dwight Berger; ANA Signature (Heritage, 7/1997), lot 5919.
5) AU53 NGC. Ex: Kenneth S. Wing Jr. "Discovered within a year of its issue, this attractive specimen remained in the same family for more than 60 years," according to its NGC Photo Proof certification and extensive documentation provided by its current owner. Found in circulation in 1944 by 14-year-old collector Kenneth S. Wing, Jr. in Long Beach, California; Kenneth S. Wing family; sold to Rare Coin Wholesalers for $72,500 (7/2008); purchased from Park Avenue Numismatics for $173,000 (8/2008); Kerry Rudin; FUN Signature (Heritage, 1/2018), lot 4764; realized $228,000; Poulos Family (Heritage 8/2019), lot 3703 realized $216,000.
6) VF35 PCGS. Dr. Carl A. Minning, Jr. (Bowers and Merena, 8/1999), lot 1122, brought $51,750; Pre-Long Beach Sale (Superior, 10/2000), lot 4147; Phillip Flannagan et al. (Bowers and Merena, 11/2001), lot 6076, realized $62,100; Alfred V. Melson Part Two / Long Beach (Heritage, 2/2010), lot 178, garnered $207,000; Geyer Family (Heritage, 11/2013), lot 3510, brought $141,000.
7) VF30 PCGS. Per Jeff Ambio. "The current owner, a California resident, found this in circulation decades ago. I recently got it certified for him at PCGS through Stack's Bowers and it has never been offered for sale. He is part of the generation that grew up with the Henry Ford story of the 1943 'copper penny' and was sharped-eye and (especially) lucky enough to find this one in circulation."
