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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2376382, member: 76863&quot;]One in particular that comes to mind is a 1906 Indian Cent struck on a gold planchet which is not the only example of the completely wrong metal for a coin series.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinlink.com/News/us-coins/unusual-items-1906-indian-cent-struck-in-gold/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinlink.com/News/us-coins/unusual-items-1906-indian-cent-struck-in-gold/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinlink.com/News/us-coins/unusual-items-1906-indian-cent-struck-in-gold/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They did in fact have aluminum planchets they were using as test strikes.&nbsp; Over a million were produced at Philly and some were then handed out as gifts to congressmen.&nbsp; Denver also produced some and given the necessary adjustments as you mentioned they very likely were told to give a quick trial of it even if no official document exists.&nbsp; Here is where the massive inconsistency occurs with their prosecution of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The missing aluminum cents gained national attention on April 21, 1975 when syndicated &quot;Washington Merry-Go-Round&quot; newspaper columnist Jack Anderson reported that &quot;some distinguished members of Congress may have sticky fingers.&quot; He wrote that 14 of the 1974-P aluminum cents were missing from Congressional committee members who received them in March 1974 but did not return them to the Treasury Department.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>Los Angeles Times</i> and other newspapers later reported that 13 coins were missing and that only four of the coins had been returned by Congressmen and other government officials who had received them. Weinberg says the estimate today on the number of missing coins ranges from five to 13.</p><p><br /></p><p>The United States government closed its investigation of any missing 1974 aluminum cents by February 1976 having found, in the government&#039;s own words &quot;no evidence of criminal intent&quot; by anyone possessing any of the coins, according to a February 21, 1976 story in <i>Numismatic News</i>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>They were perfectly happy letting some missing ones go because congressmen didn&#039;t want to return them but somehow the D version needs to be recalled.&nbsp; They set the precident allowing those missing pieces to go quietly into the night and now because the owner of the D version was not connected enough he gets targeted. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to continiously quote the entire article but it is certainly worth a read before forming an opinion on the D version.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-certifies-first-confirmed-1974d-aluminum-cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-certifies-first-confirmed-1974d-aluminum-cent" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-certifies-first-confirmed-1974d-aluminum-cent</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Further down in the article from the quote they reference a letter that occured from an employee at the time who said all the Denver trial strikes were returned to Washington and had passed through several mint foreman&#039;s hands while at Denver.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t a fly by night operation of one person making a random one and pocketing it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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