Taking the coins to the government was a foolish act.
Well well well, if there was not a sign of inflation, here is one for you.
Soon the government will acknowledge the worthlessness of paper money and require like in Rome of old or the Middle Ages to be paid in gold for taxes.
Meanwhile Bernanke insists gold is not money...
Next is the guns, I suppose. What was that? OH, that gun buy back program, yeaaaaah!?....