Lawrence

ORDER

The matter before the Court is the Motion to Dismiss the Complaint for Failure to State a Claim (“Motion to Dismiss”), filed by Defendants United States Department of the Treasury, United States Bureau of the Mint, and the United States of America. (ECF No. 3)'.

I. Background

On March 14, 2014, Plaintiffs Randall Lawrence and Michael McConnell initiated this action by filing a Complaint for Declaratory Judgment (“Complaint”) in this Court. (ECF No. 1).

A. Allegations of the Complaint

Plaintiffs are “the owners of a unique United States coin, a 1974-D Aluminum Cent.” Id. at 1. Hundreds of thousands of 1974 Aluminum Cents were minted, and at least dozens of these coins were handed out by the United States Mint to U.S. Government officials while attempting to persuade Congress to proceed with their use to replace copper pennies in 1974. Congress ultimately decided to not adopt aluminum cents, and the U.S. Mint melted down most of the specimens that were still at the Philadelphia Mint facility, and collected a majority of those that had been distributed in Washington, D.C. to also be destroyed. The Government’s records show that no one knows exactly how many aluminum cents…