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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2325621, member: 66&quot;]They did experiment with glass cents as a possible replacement for copper on the 1943 cents.&nbsp; They were made in 1942 using the Sinnock experimental design with the first reverse.&nbsp; They were made by the Corning Glass Works.&nbsp; Only a single example is known today.&nbsp; Catalog # RB 42-70&nbsp; United States Patterns and Experimental Pieces of WW-II&nbsp; by Roger Burdette.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No the 1974 Philadelphia aluminum cents were given out to the Senators.&nbsp; The Mint has no record of ever making ANY 1974 D aluminum cents.&nbsp; (But they still want that one known piece back.&nbsp; Oddly they have never made any attempt to recover the one known 1974 P aluminum cent that is in private hands.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The did make copper clad steel 1974 P cents as well.&nbsp; Several of those are in private hands and the government says they belong to them as well, but once again they have made no attempt to recover those either.&nbsp; I would imagine they will not try to recover either the aluminum or copper clad steel 1974 cents unless they are put up for public auction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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