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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 1968335, member: 6763&quot;]Doug:</p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed, this is beating a dead horse. And the Swifts have gotten a raw deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I recall, from somewhere, the mint needed some particular coin(s) for their cabinet, I think it was the gold Union patterns, and they traded &#039;boxes&#039; of patterns for the coins.</p><p>There was never an official &#039;pronouncement&#039; that the patterns were legal to own, but just a generally accepted practice.</p><p>That said, then why are the 1974 aluminum cents illegal to own/possess/hold?</p><p>They were given out to members of congress with no comment about returning them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In retrospect, the mint demanded their return, but an unknown number of them (estimated at 12) were not returned.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint (like the government in general) just makes up their rules as they go along.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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