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Toven Specimen by on Jul 25, 2009Toven Specimen, The Toven Specimen, or coin as some people refer to it as, is a independently held aluminum 1974 Lincoln cent pattern, one of the 1974 aluminum cents. Thus, the Mint issued the manufacturing of an aluminum penny as a prototype to dis...

Toven Specimen by MeiYah | Miah Laborte on Jul 24, 2009What is a Toven Specimen? A Toven Specimen is a one cent coint made of aluminum, proposed by the United States Mint in 1973. Over a million of these coin were minted but only two coins were reamined and found. The first coin is now owned by the Smith...