There’s pretty much a consensus that those coins were illegally removed from the US Mint though. So they are technically stolen property. So I would not lump this case in with other government seizures. These coins never did belong to the people who were in possession of them, imo. They remained the property of the US Mint.
Consensus? Thats the level of proof we expect from our Gov't?
Balderdash. The US Mint has records of what was struck and what left. If, then those records do not fulfill the question of where did these ten come from, then there is no stolen property.
No complaint. No deficient inventory. Nothing.
While I understand your argument, the simple fact remains...The United States Government is trying to cover up a mistake it made, by taking property without just compensation. (and by smearing these peoples ancestors to do so, (and yes, I know the backstory, that is not the point))