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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Porsche2007, post: 65234, member: 3757&quot;]<b>...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1,579,324 1974 One Cent pieces were struck in Aluminum, a handful going to members of Congress and staff members. The entire mintage was destroyed except for an estimated dozen examples that were never recovered from the Congressmen and their staffs.</p><p><br /></p><p>One example resides in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, having been turned over to the museum by Charles Holstein, staff director for the House Banking Subcommittee at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>In early 2001, a report surfaced that an unnamed grading service had examined a 1974 Aluminum Cent, but had not authenticated or encapsulated the coin.&nbsp; The coin was reportedly in the hands of the family of a deceased Capitol Hill police officer who found the piece in 1973 &quot;on the pavement while on duty in the basement of the House Office Building&quot; where the officer believed it had been dropped by a Congressman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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