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Feds Seize Gold Coins Worth $80 Million from Pennsylvania Family...

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    Feds Seize Gold Coins Worth $80 Million from Pennsylvania Family

    A federal judge has upheld a verdict that strips a Pennsylvania family of their grandfather’s gold coins — worth an estimated $80 million — and has ordered ownership transferred to the US government.

    Judge Legrome Davis of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a 2011 jury decision that a box of 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle coins discovered by the family of Israel Switt, a deceased dealer and collector, is the property of the United States.

    In the midst of the Great Depression, then-President Franklin Roosevelt ordered that America’s supply of double eagles manufactured at the Philadelphia Mint be destroyed and melted into gold bars. Of the 445,500 or so coins created, though, some managed to escape the kiln and ended up into the hands of collectors. In 2003, Switt’s family opened a safe deposit back that their grandfather kept, revealing 10 coins that turned out to be among the world’s most valuable collectables in the currency realm today....

    http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/07/feds-seize-gold-coins-worth-80-million.html

    The moral of the story, Never Ever tell the government you have something of value if they do not know about it already.
 
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