[Pontiac]

The government will claim they are from a robbery and rob this couple of their gold.

Uh oh. I can just see the feds coming on over and confiscating the lot because they are government proprty.

so cometh the federal government to claim THEIR gold.

The US Government will claim that these gold coins should have been redeemed at the US Federal Reserve because Executive Order 6102 required all persons to deliver on or before May 1, 1933 as so they must be redeemed to the government at face value.

[drypowder]

That's my point. Remember the guy, I think he was in Nevada, a year or so ago who discovered a stash of un-circulated silver dollars minted in the 1800’s that belonged to one of his deceased family member? If I recall correctly, it was worth $400,000 to $500,000 and the government took it all and paid the man ZERO!

[21twelve]

Yep - I was going to post similar. That happened to some poor SOB that found a stash in his house. Found the example below. HOWEVER, in that instance they were uncirculated coins (of a pattern that had not been released), so the gov’t figured they must have been stolen from the mint. The gov’t ended up with them. I hope that this recent couple get to keep them. After taxes of course.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/update-on-80-million-in-seized-gold-coins-judge-rules-they-belong-to-the-u-s-government_09072012