US Government confiscates $80 million worth of gov issued gold.

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Still in love with government issued gold coins? ...American eagles, double eagles etc., etc.,?

You better think again. The ONLY gold worth having is privately issued gold which is not subject to recall or confiscation.

When you hold gold that is government issued, you do not own it, you are merely the bearer of that gold, and the government can and will recall or confiscate IT'S gold whenever it wishes, ...and pay you only the face value, ...or even worse, ...absolutely nothing ...as this family just found out.

They just had $80 Million Dollars worth of American double eagles confiscated, and they were left with ZIP!!!  


http://news.yahoo.com/judge-says-10-rare-gold-coins-worth-80-152750965--abc-news-topstories.html

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Judge Says 10 Rare Gold Coins Worth $80 Million Belong to Uncle Sam
By SUSANNA KIM | Good Morning America – Wed, Sep 5, 2012

Judge Says 10 Rare Gold Coins Worth $80 Million Belong to Uncle Sam

A judge ruled that 10 rare gold coins worth $80 million belonged to the U.S. government, not a family that had sued the U.S. Treasury, saying it had illegally seized them.

The 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle coin was originally valued at $20, but sold for as much as $7.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in 2002, according to Courthouse News.

After President Theodore Roosevelt had the U.S. abandon the gold standard, most of the 445,500 double eagles that the Philadelphia Mint had struck were melted into gold bars.

However, a Philadelphia Mint cashier had managed to give or sell some of them to a local coin dealer, Israel Switt.
In 2003, Switt's family, Joan Langbord, and her two grandsons, drilled opened a safety deposit box that had belonged to him and found the 10 coins.

When the Langbords gave the coins to the Philadelphia Mint for authentification, the government seized them without compensating the family.

The Langbords sued, saying the coins belonged to them.

In 2011, a jury decided that the coins belonged to the government, but the family appealed.

Last week, Judge Legrome Davis of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania, affirmed that decision, saying "the coins in question were not lawfully removed from the United States Mint."

Barry Berke, an attorney for the Langbords, told ABCNews.com, "This is a case that raises many novel legal questions, including the limits on the government's power to confiscate property. The Langbord family will be filing an appeal and looks forward to addressing these important issues before the 3rd Circuit."

The family said in its suit that in another seizure of the 1933 double eagle, the government split the proceeds with the owner after the coin sold for $7.59 million in 2002, according to Coinbooks.org.
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