Return Of 1974-D Aluminum Cent To US Mint Makes News

CoinWorld - A modern U.S. Mint rarity re­turned to federal custody and was put on public view during 2016.



The only known example of the 1974-D Lincoln aluminum cent was returned to the U.S. Mint, settling a dispute between two men and the Mint. The U.S. Mint then placed the coin on display during the American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Anaheim, Calif., in August.

Tom Jurkowsky, the U.S. Mint's director of corporate communications, told Coin World March 18 that Bill Bailey, assistant chief of police of the U.S. Mint, and U.S. Mint Chief Counsel Jean Gentry, took possession of the 1974-D aluminum cent on March 17 in San Diego.

Before being taken into custody by U.S. Mint officials, the 1974-D aluminum cent was cracked out of its Professional Coin Grading Service Secure holder, where it bore a grade of Mint State 63.

Michael McConnell, owner of La Jolla Coin Shop in La Jolla, Calif., one of the two private claimants to the coin, carefully removed the coin from its grading service holder and placed the coin into another plastic capsule in preparation for the coin's surrender to authorities at a federal building in San Diego.

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