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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 2484994, member: 12789"]With regards to the other coins brought up, I have heard apocryphal stories of the 64-D Peace dollars, have never seen an authentic one though. But the Martha Washington trial pieces trade from time to time in published auctions. I am not saying they are legal per say to own, but maybe the Mint figures they would prefer to go after higher profile coinage like the 1933 Saint and the '74-D aluminum cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another questionable coin that exists is the '59 Wheat back cent, one of these was sold ca. 2012 on Goldberg Auctions for approx $40K - the Secret Service authenticated the coin, the mint claims not possible and a well known forger claims to have counterfeited it. Mark Hoffman, the alleged counterfeiter is sitting in prison in Utah, but not for that, but for selling fake Mormon documents from the 19th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 2484994, member: 12789"]With regards to the other coins brought up, I have heard apocryphal stories of the 64-D Peace dollars, have never seen an authentic one though. But the Martha Washington trial pieces trade from time to time in published auctions. I am not saying they are legal per say to own, but maybe the Mint figures they would prefer to go after higher profile coinage like the 1933 Saint and the '74-D aluminum cent. Another questionable coin that exists is the '59 Wheat back cent, one of these was sold ca. 2012 on Goldberg Auctions for approx $40K - the Secret Service authenticated the coin, the mint claims not possible and a well known forger claims to have counterfeited it. Mark Hoffman, the alleged counterfeiter is sitting in prison in Utah, but not for that, but for selling fake Mormon documents from the 19th century.[/QUOTE]
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