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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2025765, member: 66&quot;]The two coins in Washington DID exist.&nbsp; they were die trial pieces made at the Philadelphia mint.. They were found in files in the office safe of the Mint Headquarters technologist in 1970 and were destroyed.&nbsp; The documents relating to their destruction still exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are no records of any of the coins being sent to President Johnson.&nbsp; This was probably a confusion over the two trial pieces sent to Washington to the technologist Johnson, Howard Johnson.&nbsp; ie: two coins sent to Johnson in Washington.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What do you say so called? It existed. (1965 appropriations bill passed July 28th 1964, contained an appropriation of $600,000 for the production of 45 million standard silver dollars.) And the creation of the 90% silver dollars was a political trade with powerful western Senators in order to get their support to get the coppernickel clad coinage approved.&nbsp; We&#039;ll authorize these if you&#039;ll vote to remove silver from the other coins.&nbsp; They agreed and voted for the clad coins but eventually lost out on the silver dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will agree though that it was stupid.&nbsp; But it was Washington.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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