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<p>[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 1856619, member: 28550"]There's at least one that's in private hands (with a clean provenance - I pulled up the Wiki article to double check my memory):</p><p><br /></p><p>"In the February 20, 2001, edition of <i>Numismatic News</i>, Alan Herbert reported the existence of an aluminum cent. It was attributed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Capitol_Police" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Capitol_Police" rel="nofollow">US Capitol Police</a> Officer Albert Toven, who had found the coin dropped by an unnamed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Congressman" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Congressman" rel="nofollow">US Congressman</a> on the floor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Office_Building" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Office_Building" rel="nofollow">Rayburn Office Building</a>. When the officer attempted to return the coin to the congressman, thinking it was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28United_States_coin%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28United_States_coin%29" rel="nofollow">dime</a>, the congressman told him to keep it. This example was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_grading" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_grading" rel="nofollow">graded</a> and certified by the Independent Coin Grading Company as “About Uncirculated-58” in 2005, but later certified as Mint State 62 two months later by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Coin_Grading_Service" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Coin_Grading_Service" rel="nofollow">Professional Coin Grading Service</a>."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 1856619, member: 28550"]There's at least one that's in private hands (with a clean provenance - I pulled up the Wiki article to double check my memory): "In the February 20, 2001, edition of [I]Numismatic News[/I], Alan Herbert reported the existence of an aluminum cent. It was attributed to [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Capitol_Police']US Capitol Police[/URL] Officer Albert Toven, who had found the coin dropped by an unnamed [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Congressman']US Congressman[/URL] on the floor of the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayburn_Office_Building']Rayburn Office Building[/URL]. When the officer attempted to return the coin to the congressman, thinking it was a [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28United_States_coin%29']dime[/URL], the congressman told him to keep it. This example was [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_grading']graded[/URL] and certified by the Independent Coin Grading Company as “About Uncirculated-58” in 2005, but later certified as Mint State 62 two months later by the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Coin_Grading_Service']Professional Coin Grading Service[/URL]."[/QUOTE]
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