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2dimes wrote:Look up the 1933 double eagle $20 coin.
Because of a law prohibiting gold being used as currency in the US passed that year, the mint tried to destroy all of them except 2.
Later it was discovered some that had been stolen by a mint employee then sold to a coin dealer were going up for auction. The stolen coins were seized and melted.
The dealer's great grand children still had more of them only a few years ago, when the government found out they seized those coins, the family went to court to try to keep them.
Can you imagine getting caught with something your family had, that was publicly well known to be stolen, yet trying to get the Supreme Court to allow you to keep it?
"But my dad gave it to me."
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
2dimes wrote:I want one of those 50th anniversary Apollo 11 coins I can't decide if I should cough the extra to buy a perfect one.
https://catalog.usmint.gov/apollo-11-50 ... 27&start=1
KoolBak wrote:On the coin theme, after I had to have my nice platinum wedding ring cut off, I opted for a ring made of a silver proof quater from my wedding year. I think theyre really cool and all sorts of options available.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coin-ring-handmade-from-US-SILVER-QUARTER-1940-1964-SIZES-4-8-5-pick-year-size/172348292275?var=&hash=item2820c23cb3
I've always collected coins unofficially. Have about a 10 lb bag of silver dimes / quarters from when I was controller of a company that had payphones and counted about a quarter mill of coins a year. You could always see the silver when it came thru and I'd exchange it for a regular coin. Yes, the owner was cool with it....lol.
Have several years worth of the platinum eagle series that the mint makes every year....I like platinum.
mookiemcgee wrote:
This is kind of cool, Kool. Do they make them in Yuan, I was thinking of proposing to Mrswdk
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
KoolBak wrote:Only platinum I know of are the platinum eagles....
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