[hanamizu]

So were coin collections.

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They kept that bit in the very fine print. The extra large print read something like $10,00in 0 FINE/10 YEARS IN PRISON. So most people, who weren’t coin collectors, turned their quite-collectable coins. Word in my family was that gold coins were often gifts on special occasions which were kept and cherished like jewelry, only to be spent in a time of crisis. So grandma took her double eagle and got a nice, crisp $20 Federal Reserve Note in exchange.

And if you had a roll or two of quarter eagles ($2.50) and dates matched, that was viewed as evidence of hoarding as opposed to collecting.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yeah, a lot of collectible coins that were perfectly legal went into the pot.

FDR just wanted to change the down turn to a full on depression so he could seize more power for the Alphabets.

[Freedom4US]

$10,000 fine is equivalent to $625,000 at today’s gold price.

Guess they were serious about “gold hoarding”! So serious, they confiscated 20,000 tons of it from the American people, and then put it all inside a vault at Ft. Knox.

Presumably, that’s not “hoarding”.