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<p>[QUOTE="Cascade, post: 2504151, member: 75984"]Has anybody suggested the 1933 double eagles yet. From minting to melting to the King Farouk gift specimen to it being the only "legal" one now due to the Langboard case that was just adjudicated granting the US government to seize them. Now that's one of the king of numismatic stories</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1974 aluminum Lincoln cent prototypes struck due to the copper shortage and price increase and given out to senators and congressmen to try and get them on board and when they were asked to return them some didn't making the ones known today very valuable including the one in 2014 that PCGS graded and was going to heritage auctions which put it on the government's radar and was quickly siezed[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cascade, post: 2504151, member: 75984"]Has anybody suggested the 1933 double eagles yet. From minting to melting to the King Farouk gift specimen to it being the only "legal" one now due to the Langboard case that was just adjudicated granting the US government to seize them. Now that's one of the king of numismatic stories Or The 1974 aluminum Lincoln cent prototypes struck due to the copper shortage and price increase and given out to senators and congressmen to try and get them on board and when they were asked to return them some didn't making the ones known today very valuable including the one in 2014 that PCGS graded and was going to heritage auctions which put it on the government's radar and was quickly siezed[/QUOTE]
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