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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 98394, member: 669&quot;]Okay - I re-read the article, and it appears that the officer is definitely deceased, as the coin showed up in the possession of this family.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the story prototype coins were distributed to a &quot;small number of Congressmen&quot;.&nbsp; Logicly those would have been members of the House and/or Senate committees overseeing the Treasury.&nbsp; That limits the number of potentials to a couple of dozen at most.</p><p><br /></p><p>But consider this: <ul> <li>Most members of Congress serving in 1974 are not only out of office, but deceased.&nbsp; Finding the living ones (if any) may not be easy.</li> <li>Finding their surviving family members (most likely offspring, not spouses at this date) will definitely not be easy.</li> <li>After you find any of them, it isn&#039;t very likely that this man (or woman) went home and told any member of his family &quot;Hey, I dropped an aluminum cent today, and when a Capitol Police officer tried to return it to me, I told him to keep it.&quot;</li> </ul><p></p><p>Sometimes the unknowable is simply that. :smile[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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