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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1978366, member: 15929"]Since Lawrence was the Assistant Superintendent, what if the US Mint Superintendent gave him the coin as a retirement gift? Would that "superintendant" not represent the "US Government"? Here, let's look at a precedent set by the US Government: "The Toven centThe Toven aluminum cent, which surfaced in 2005, was graded and encapsulated About Uncirculated 58 by Independent Coin Grading. The cent was subsequently graded MS-62 by PCGS.Toven was a U.S. Capitol police officer who reportedly picked up the 1974 aluminum cent in the basement of the Rayburn Office Building, after a congressman dropped the coin. Toven tried to return the piece, thinking it was a dime, but he was told to keep it. Upon closer examination, Toven realized it was not a dime, but one of the experimental cents. Toven kept the piece until he died, in 1999. The Toven 1974 aluminum cent is still owned by the Toven family.The U.S. Mint has never made any effort to seek the return of the Toven coin." And. as Armen Vartian argues, folks had better PRAY that the government doesn't get this one back or else, by legal precedent, they could come after EVERYTHING including "error coins" which, technically, should have never left the US Mint.[/QUOTE]