Different case, but yes that does make a twisted sort of sense. Silver "coins" as a novelty / collector item are fine, but if people use them as "money" then it is a threat to the Treasury Dept.
It also explains the timing. The Fed had to move to stop the $1 copper coins from hitting the street. Norfed rounds aren't any better than the silver coins created by a dozen other companies, and those other companies would have followed suit over time. (Companies like to copy profitable business models.)
A $1 coin might have more takers than a $20 (silver) or $1000 (gold) coin.
It was almost the beginning of an underground economy (undeclared, untaxed). It's not about Ron Paul. Same thing could have happened with coins showing Hilary or Jesus,or whoever. Didn't even have to be coins, people could have paid for haircuts and car repairs using Beanie Babies or Pokemon cards. Anything other than FRNs being circulated as money is a problem.
That does basically say the Fed figures that barter is illegal.
I think that it is vital that the American People take back their prerogative to coin money. If we are able to establish a sound money system in time to replace the collapsing FRNs, we the people may have a chance to deal with our other problems, and persist as a first world nation into the future. If we continue to tolerate the yoke of the thuggish, worthless, lying scum in DC, with their phony laws, phony money, phony patriotism, and phony lives, we will sink forever into the muck of bankrupt despotism.
Please describe how that could be. If anything, it would be a boon to have money circulating that they didn't have to honor. Your statement is poorly thought out.