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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 654451, member: 66&quot;]The existance of the 1964-D Peace dollars is still undetermined but there is no question about the existance of the 1974 aluminum cents.&nbsp; There is one in the Smithsonian, and another has bee authenticated by two of the major TPG&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At the time they made the 1964-D Peace dollars it was a legally authorized production coin.&nbsp; In the case of the 1974 aluminum cents they were a test run for a coin which they expected authorization to be passed for shortly.&nbsp; (At the time it looked very strongly that the authorization would be passed and the cents in 1974 would be made of aluminum.&nbsp; So even though it was still 1973 the test run coins were dated 1974.&nbsp; It was planned that after the authorization was passed the test coins could simply be put into circulation with the rest of the regular 1974 cents.)&nbsp; But then the price of copper plummeted and pressure to pass the authorization evaporated.&nbsp; (We came very close to having 2009 copper plated steel cents, and then avoided them for the same reason.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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