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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1624099, member: 66&quot;]You are wrong, vnickels had it right, Congress ordered them made, Johnson ordered them destroyed.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I talked to Michael Lantz a few years back at Central States he said he didn&#039;t have first hand knowledge about them because he didn&#039;t work in that building.&nbsp; (The dollars were struck in a building separate from the rest of the Denver Mint complex.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was well documented that the coin existed, but there was no documentation about an unknown number leaving the mint.&nbsp; In fact the mint always insisted that they had accounted for every single one of them and kept maintaining that even as more of them kept showing up.&nbsp; Back in the 40&#039;s when the government decided to go after them Izzy admitted to having handled nine of them.&nbsp; The government recovered eight and the Farouk coin was number nine.&nbsp; Again the government claimed to have accounted for all of them.&nbsp; then the Eliasberg coin turned up and they took it.&nbsp; Now they said they had all of them.&nbsp; In the early seventies it was commonly believe among dealers that Izzy actually had 25 of them and only admitted to nine.&nbsp; Then the Langboard coins turned up.&nbsp; That made twenty, and there is a photo from 1980 of one that does not match any of the known pieces.&nbsp; That makes 21.&nbsp; I seriously believe the 25 figure so I think there are probably at least 5 more out there, the one from the photo and four more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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