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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 188506, member: 66&quot;]Anyone with knowledge of the history of the original seizure knew.&nbsp; And yes there is at least one more, probably 5 more, still out there.&nbsp; It was fairly well known years ago that Izzy had at least 25 of the coins.&nbsp; (Issy told the SS that he only had 9 and told them who they had been sold to.&nbsp; The SS eventually confiscated all 8 coins and announced that they had accounted for all of &quot;stolen coins&quot;.&nbsp; Their 8 and the Farouk coin.&nbsp; A year or so later Eliasberg acquired his coin, and requested that he be allowed to keep it so as to keep his collection complete.&nbsp; The government refused and confiscated the tenth of the nine coins. Any guesses where the Eliasberg coin probably came from?&nbsp; My bet is Izzy sold it.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So far they have accounted for 20 of them and there is a photograph of a 21st specimen that hasn&#039;t been &quot;rounded up yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1931 Standing Liberty Quarter and the 1933 Washington have been long time myths with no really credible sightings.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the 1964 Franklin COULD have been struck since the dies probably existed in late November of 1963, I don&#039;t believe they were ever struck.&nbsp; (Although it is possible they did strike some to ave a stokepile on hand once the year changed.&nbsp; The country was in the midst of a coin shortage and they would not want to have had any delays in shipments while they waited for 1964 coins to be struck.&nbsp; I know they do this today but I don&#039;t know if they did back then.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not believe the 1895 dollars were ever struck.&nbsp; The original mint records do show 12,000 dollars being struck in 1895, but the entry is flagged with a note stating that they were dated 1894.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1964-D dollars were struck, and that mint employees were allowed to acquire examples.&nbsp; I also believe that a few coins do still exist.&nbsp; At least two recognized dollar specialists have said to me that they have seen examples that they believe were genuine unaltered coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 1999 non-state quarters, but they are counterfeits.&nbsp; In very early 1999 there were reports of a couple traveling up the east coast&nbsp; paying for their meals with rolls of quarters.&nbsp; Nice new 1999 eagle reverse quarters.&nbsp; The state quarters were just coming out and no one knew the 1999&#039;s didn&#039;t have eagle reverses.&nbsp; (I have to admit this is from news reports, I&#039;ve never actually seen one.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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