US Mint confiscates gold coins that never officially existed

Yahoo ^ | 08/26/05

[Publius]

Already posted here.

[linkinpunk]

Lesson: Don't ask, don't tell.

[printhead]

Private property rights went out the window last month anyways.

[Prime Choice]

Possession is 9/10ths of the law. This person was a chump to give them to the U.S. Mint.

Never forget the Golden Rule. Those with the gold make the rules.

[Termite_Commander]

=/

That's gotta give you an aneurysm.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Bottom line: stolen property doesn't become legitimate through inheritance.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Private property rights went out the window last month anyways.

They were not private property, they were stolen property.

[RoyalsFan]

It's a different article, read it.

[mtbopfuyn]

a small number of specimens were known to have "escaped" into private hands.

Escaped = stolen. If she's so stupid as to show them to the Mint, from where they were originally stolen, she deserves to have them taken.

[Sender]

If only she had known what would happen, she could have melted them down or simply hammered them flat. IMHO, the government should at least compensate her for the amount of the gold.

[slyfoxvirden]

So true. An elementary lesson in Property 101 in Law School. That's also why descendants of Holocaust victims are suing to get back artwork the Nazis stole from them that then ended up in the hands of questionable art dealers and wealthy collectors.

[GhostofWCooper]

She should have taken them out of the country for resale, where the mint couldn't snatch them so easily.

[WKB]

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[madison10]

She should have just shown the Mint ONE coin to see what would happen. Ten surely required action by the Feds...they couldn't have someone who was gonna drain the nation's bank account asking for her $$$$.

[TexasTransplant]

Statute of Limitations?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"She should have taken them out of the country for resale, where the mint couldn't snatch them so easily."

Are you a fence?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"Statute of Limitations?"

Doesn't change the fact that the property is stolen.

[Fee]

Good PR for government if they let her keep one of the coins as a reward for returning the other stolen/lost coins. That way both parties can leave happy.

[1rudeboy]

Possession is 9/10ths of the law.

LOL
With the exception of hundreds of years of American common law, and more than a thousand years of English common law before that.