Well, you have my apologies. I read the article, saw that the phrase was used and so I thought I would link it in. If it was inappropriate to the thread then by all means, delete the posting.
Again, my sincere apologies for posting something that obviously had nothing to do with " Roosevelt as a Dictator". I clearly misunderstood.
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Nope. *E.g., *
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000489----000-.html
Apparently people do it though. http://varietynickels.com/articles/1944no-p.htm
I wasn’t responding as a mod. I make it know if I am. And I wasn’t mad.
I just wondered if I had missed a cite.
This is true. Her father admitting to selling 9 of them. 9 was a big number considering how few apparantly escaped, probably enough for the gov’t to figure that was all he had. Now we find out thats he had a whole 10 extra in his private collection (thats about $66 million). The daughter probably wasn’t ignorant to their value andt he fact that 10 being confiscated by the feds makes them all the rarer. She might just be looking to get people interesting in the coins again so she can sell her other 15 overseas.
Just as an aside, if anyone is interested in the story of the 1933 Double Eagle, the book Illegal Tender is a great read. It is a history book that reads like a mystery.
Another neat coin story is the one about how the Denver Mint struck over 300,000 1964 silver dollars in 1965. None are said to exist today, but rumors abound. I’ve never seen one, myself, but I’d very much like to. (Of course, if I actually had seen one, I wouldn’t admit it!)
A U.S. district court jury decided the coins are Uncle Sam’s; the trial judge has let that ruling stand:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/09/04/49923.htm
When an SDSAB does it, that means it isn’t a zombie.
(Ten quatloos to whoever gets the reference.)
Ten solid gold Double Eagle quatloos, to be exact. Which will be immediately confiscated by the secret agents of the SDSAB. Of course, everyone who reads SDMB knows and fears the SDSAB! And everyone knows that Elendil’s Heir is one of them (shudder)!
He’s talking about the original confiscation of gold in the 30s.
If the government had brains and compassion, what it would do is auction these off and split the proceeds 50/50 with the family. Something to pay down the deficit after all.
Funny you should say that. I’ve heard quite a number of things about FDR that make him sound rather, um, “heavy handed.” I was actually thinking of starting a thread in GD about whether he qualifies as a dictator, but this would probably break down along predictable party lines.
Why the hell did she give the gov’ment all the friggin coins?
I would have taken those suckers to collectors in Europe and made a mint.
I think she wanted to verify that they were the real deal, and not some fakes–which, unfortunately for her, is exactly what happened.
Paraphrasing Nixon in his (in)famous interview with David Frost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYdJqSG3K6c
And quatloos are the currency from the original Star Trek episode “The Gamesters of Triskelion.”
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couldn’t she just had one of them checked? A couple? It’s unlikely that two random coins would be real but the rest fakes.
If you found original works by Shakespear in your grandmother’s attic, and you found out they were stolen in 1912 from the Library of Congress, would you suggest that the government sell them off and split the proceeds with you?
…if the government’s *other *plan was to burn the copies…
I’d talk to a lawyer and work out a way of keeping all the proceeds. But that may just be me, and my answer would be different if it were the British Library. I owe the US government nothing, if anything it owes me for the misery it causes me by the oppressive laws it promulgates world wide.
The coin thing is completely different anyway because it’s to do with property seized under pathetic reasons, not stolen goods (at least in the moral sense - there hasn’t been a loss - except from those who had all their stuff nicked by uncy sam)