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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BR549, post: 971733, member: 7110&quot;]To my knowledge nary a one has been authenticated, only speculated. The story is documented with Mint correspondence relating to a Mint employee at Philadelphia pilfering cents from the coining press. If true, there&#039;s a chance that 1 in 450 is possible. </p><p><br /></p><p>A raised mark had been found on the N of the reverse of the 1875, but if you ask me it&#039;s nothing more than a die chip.</p><p><br /></p><p>&lt;&lt;Finding a dot cent among the workers change would not legally prove anything unless they never allowed any of his production into circulation.&gt;&gt;</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the key element, the supposedly secretly marked cent had not yet been released into circulation, so if an employee of the Mint had one in his pocket, well then it was taken at some point after being struck and would have been impossible to get from outside sources, IE; bank, commerce transaction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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