[DogByte6RER]

[ClearCase_guy]

In for a penny, in for a pound.

[MeshugeMikey]

if it was never issued as legal tender than it does not have a one penny value.

if the feds then claim its a stolen item ...offer em a modern copper penny.

[goldstategop]

Feds claim it was never issued as legal tender and want it back.

$250,000 is worth a penny. Ka-ching!

[mylife]

Fantastic numismatic! I hope he wins.

[P-Marlowe]

Lawrence, a real-estate agent, said he doesn’t know exactly how his father, who worked at the U.S. Mint in Denver for years, ended up with one of the aluminum pennies.

But I'm sure he could make an intelligent guess as to how it ended up in his possession.

Unfortunately for Mr. Lawrence, the government is going to end up with the penny and Mr. Lawrence is going to end up penniless (so to speak)

[KoRn]

Wow....

Once again, an example of people not keeping their mouths shut. Unfortunately, I expect the government will prevail in this case.

[DogByte6RER]

Just watch this case; the U.S. Government will spend lots of taxpayer dollars to get back a single penny made out of aluminum. Our National Debt is over $17 Trillion ... and counting.

[G Larry]

Say, what is happening with those cans of Gold Coins that somebody found buried in California?

Folks dumb enough to reveal the entire find at one time, thereby hinting the coins were stolen from the mint in the early 1900’s......

[G Larry]

HEY!

>http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/california-gold-discovery/<

Looks like the Cali Gold Coin couple have a great case for keeping them!

Dates too early to be from the mint heist.

Now they just have to fight with the IRS and Guv Brown to see if they can keep more than half the sale price.

[RobinOfKingston]

Does anyone think the feral gubmint is above “seizing” this coin, then turning around and auctioning it themselves?

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

was never issued as legal currency and therefore it is government property.

So it is govt owned if it's issued as legal currency and it is govt owned if it WASN'T issued as legal tender.

Bureaucrat thinking at it's stupidest.

[Jet Jaguar]

Goldbug ping.

[LouAvul]

he doesn’t know exactly how his father, who worked at the U.S. Mint in Denver for years, ended up with one of the aluminum pennies

He'll be lucky if he's not indicted for receiving stolen property. And, no way he's ever going to be able to keep it, much less profit from it.

[luvbach1]

Was there another penny made form a whiteish or gray metal? I could swear I had one once.

[ExSoldier]

That's funny, I just got a bill from the University of Miami for exactly .01 (cost more than that to generate the bill) and I don't even know what it was for. I took some courses there a few years ago to be able to update and extend my teaching certificate. Being a good citizen, I'll go and pay but I'm going to demand a receipt. Altogether, it will cost them several or many times the charge to get it resolved.