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US Mint confiscates gold coins that never officially existed
	Posted by RoyalsFan On News/Activism 08/26/2005 4:50:46 PM CDT · 98 replies · 1,615+ views Yahoo ^ | 08/26/05 NEW YORK (AFP) - The American 20-dollar 1933 "double eagle" is one of the rarest and most valuable coins in the world. JoanLangbord of Philadelphia found 10 of them, and now the US government has taken them away. Compounding Langbord's sense of loss -- a double eagle auctioned in 2002 sold for a world-record 7.6 million dollars -- is the fact that it was her own decision to inform the government of her discovery that led to their confiscation. The 10 coins were hidden for decades in the possessions of Langbord's father, Israel Switt, who ran an antique jewelry...
U.S. Mint Confiscates 10 Rare Gold Coins
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 08/25/2005 11:52:28 AM CDT · 208 replies · 4,541+ views Yahoo | AP ^ | 8/25/05 PHILADELPHIA - The U.S. Mint seized 10 Double Eagle gold coins from 1933, among the rarest and most valuable coins in the world, that were turned in by a jeweler seeking to determine their authenticity. Joan S. Langbord plans a federal court lawsuit to try to recover them, her attorney, Barry H. Berke, said Wednesday. Langbord found the coins among the possessions of her father, longtime Philadelphia jeweler Israel Switt, who had acknowledged having sold some of the coins decades ago. She now operates her father's business. David Lebryk, acting director of the Mint, had announced in a news release..

[staytrue]

This is really bad news for anyone living on illegally obtained Indian land.

This is really bad news for anyone who "owns" anything.

[dead]

For some reason, this reminded me of the plot of "Elmo in Grouchland."

My country has become Grouchland.

[Logical me]

Maybe we haven't figured it out yet, but Big Daddy owns everything. Everything we have is temporary possession, and on some, we have to pay a fee to keep it.

[Columbus Dawg]

Were these coins by any chance investments by the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation?

[GladesGuru]

The bureaucratic bachelor's children are letting their kleptocratic propensities show.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Franklin Roosevelet confiscated all privately held gold and issued fiat money. so the Double eagles belonged to the federal government. I know its wrong but its the law. And the law must be obeyed even if it is unconstitutional.

Of course if you believe that the above statement is wrong then the only recourse is resistance. Or else they can take your money whenever they want.

[chuckles]

OK the gubmint can have the coins, just give them the $10 mil as a finders fee.

[Tax Government]

Confiscations of this kind should occur only by court order.

[krb]

Hmmm...they should have given the gov't only 1 of the coins to evaluate...

[robertpaulsen]

"After a family asks U.S. Mint to authenticate 10 old coins ..."

Well, that answers the question -- yes, they were authentic.

[SkyPilot]

"Seize that antique dealer's store and build a hotel on it! You'll get more taxes."

[redgolum]

Technically, the mint doesn't have to give them a dime. Which is sad.

[innocent-one]

To all you scholarly people that belive the coins are the ownership of the govt. I seem to remember that if a crime was commited you are entitled to due process and innocent until proven guilty.

It's seem the govt. likes to twist and bend the laws to their liking. Was there a crime as the US Mint says. Well let them prove it.