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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1855526, member: 66&quot;]The missing pattern aluminum cents that are considered to be government property are 1974 PLAIN cents.&nbsp; They never struck any Denver pattern aluminum cents.&nbsp; At least not officially.&nbsp; the Lantz letter mentioned in the link is not an official record, just one workers story.&nbsp; (I have heard Mr Lants relate stories about the mint on several occasions, and often retellings of the same stories.&nbsp; Unfortunately the details of the stories change from one time to the next and I now think that details related by Mr Lantz should be viewed with some skepticism.)&nbsp; This coin is most likely an off-metal piece struck on a foreign planchet in error.&nbsp; The mint was striking aluminum coins for Nepal that year, 18.5 mm in diameter (a cent is 19mm).&nbsp; Problem is those were being struck in San Francisco.&nbsp; They were striking 5 Sentimos pieces in brass for the Phillipines in Denver, also 18.5 mm.&nbsp; Now the planchets for both of those probably came from an outside supplier.&nbsp; So it could be possible that a Nepal planchet got mixed in with the Phillipines planchets and sent to Denver. If there are a moderate number of 1974 D cents struck on Phillipines 5 Sentimos planchets it would lend credence to the idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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