So.. Has anyone seen one of the 1974 W Lincoln Cent? In Aluminum? I was reading that they made 1.5M.. Do They have a "W" MM? How many still exist? I think I saw it on CopperCoins Any details on the story..
Ah.. I see.. "Nobody" (wink) has one.. Wow... Thanks so much for the link.. I hope that someday the SS will let some of these get out.. Like that Gold Coin... confiscated after Auction.. Then released. [FONT=arial, helvetica] "It is unclear whether any of these latter pieces still exist. The Secret Service has said that it will confiscate any of these pieces should they turn up in the market place."[/FONT]
They have no mint mark. In fact, the west point mint produced normal copper cents for circulation during the 1970s and 1980s but they lacked a mint mark as well so they are indistinguishable from normal Philadelphia cents. Our local trivia master Clinker had a great post about it a few months ago. If you want to read more about it, look here: http://www.cointalk.com/t42402/
The aluminum 1974 cents were struck in Philadelphia in 1973. West Point did not start striking cents until 1975 and they were all in copper with no mintmark.
I checked out the Clinker link. My records do not show any cent coinage at West Point until 1975, and the 10 million 1 centisimo coins they made for Panama were dated 1975 not 1974.
