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Posted on 08/25/2005 9:52:28 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Sticky fingers government douchebags at it again.
Ditto
More government help?
They could at least offer them $20 each for them.
Bastards!
I'll take those. Thank you very much. Our government at work.
But Berke said Mint officials couldn't prove the coins had been stolen, or were subject to forfeiture.
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Well, the first problem was the gentlemen took the coins to the mint. Mistake one.
The second was trusting them -- and you see what happened. This guy has been robbed by persons seeking now to posess very high value marketable collectibles, and the government is going to try and get away with ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY in robbing this man who had possession of these coins. I am a collector and there have been many instances of government employees deliberately committing fraud and theft of rare and special specimens for monetary gain.
I hope this man fights these crooks and gets HIS coins back.
I would have never ever notified the mint or any other agency of this. I would have obtained the services of an attorney first.
"Mint officials asked to authenticate the coins, then confiscated them after doing so, Berke said."
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There are highly-reputable professional coin grading services that could have graded and authenticated the coins and the coins would have been returned to the owner. The big mistake was in allowing a government agency to this.
The value of gold is a myth.
Doesn't matter the Supreme Court rule the gov't can seize anything, whenever it wants, for any reason.
You can also bet that at least some of those 10 coins will get lost again.
The Mint should give him at least a $1 million dollar settlement. Fricking bureaucrats....as if they needed the coins anyway. Produce some replicas if they're that valuable. Sheesh.
The government hates competition.
Their is some value to gold, just not the magical value some people attribute to it.
Shucks, guess that means I'll have to keepem locked up and just enjoy them in private now.......;>)
Yep - this is one case where I hope a good shyster lawyer squeezes every last buck from those thieves.
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