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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 7791503, member: 66"]Ozone was confusing 1964 with 1974, and aluminum for steel. Plus the fact that there WERE pattern bronze clad steel 1974 cents made as well. Those weren't known about until years later. When they went to destroy the 1974 steel cents at a steel foundry several were dropped and an employee picked several of them up. Then years later, in 1994, he sent them to Coin World for examination. (There was a more recent article about them in Coin World May 19, 2012 <a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/1974-bronze-clad-steel-cent.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/1974-bronze-clad-steel-cent.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/1974-bronze-clad-steel-cent.html</a>) The government said those were government property as well but never took any steps to recover them. I don't know where they are now.</p><p><br /></p><p>So there were steel cents in 1974 not 64.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 7791503, member: 66"]Ozone was confusing 1964 with 1974, and aluminum for steel. Plus the fact that there WERE pattern bronze clad steel 1974 cents made as well. Those weren't known about until years later. When they went to destroy the 1974 steel cents at a steel foundry several were dropped and an employee picked several of them up. Then years later, in 1994, he sent them to Coin World for examination. (There was a more recent article about them in Coin World May 19, 2012 [URL]https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/1974-bronze-clad-steel-cent.html[/URL]) The government said those were government property as well but never took any steps to recover them. I don't know where they are now. So there were steel cents in 1974 not 64.[/QUOTE]
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