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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 3972754, member: 106826&quot;]My 2 cents: Like my avatar (1882 V Nickel), some coinage is produced and given to Congressmen/Senators for evaluation.&nbsp; They are supposed to find their way back to the mint, but some are retained and put into private collections (that&#039;s what happened to this coin, so I&#039;m told).&nbsp; Such coinage is not produced under an Act, so it&#039;s not legal tender, so-to-speak.&nbsp; That&#039;s why it&#039;s illegal to own...but folks do.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure why the Fed&#039;s got so upset about the 1974 Aluminum Cents, but perhaps it&#039;s because they are fairly valuable to a collector so to discourage other honest Congresspeople from turning a side profit (I mean, how could that happen?), this case was made in to the Poster Child of Coinage and what not to do.&nbsp; Plenty of evaluation pieces have been slabbed over the years...so they are out there to be had.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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