I have gold plated replicas of this coin. One has the date in Roman numerals and the other is in Arabic. Also, one of them is missing "In God We Trust" that's between the sun and its rays on the back. These 2 gold plated replicas as well as a few others that I have are stamped with COPY on the backs in various locations.
This just proves how stupid our Government is. All they have done in the long run is spend hundreds of thousands of dollars dealing with a matter that could be rectified almost immediately at little to no cost. JUST LEAVE IT ALONE. The government accomplished one thing in the long run, they made someone a multi-millionaire. This is a good video. Thanks for doing it!
Excellent video, a ton of great information here. I heard something, it was probably on another channel, that a letter was written acknowledging possession of a 1933 double eagle that was overseas. The US government then provided permission to bring the coin over. Then, when the coin was brought over, the coin was seized. The coin owner won a lawsuit given the written permission provided by the government, and it turned out the coin owner had like 9 more of them, which also became legal. These are all just stories I’ve heard, so idk, but it’s a very interesting topic. 🔥🦈🌊
I have a pretty good dealer that consistenly has double eagles. Doesnt mean i'll buy one. They're beautiful, but pricy. The half eagles are more my jam.
It is interesting that FDR's executive order is mentioned, but also mentioned is the fact that those coins are illegal to own because they were not monetized and therefore are considered stolen property. FDR's executive order was technically illegal. Executives whether they be the President of the United States governors of individual states or mayors of cities may issue orders that are binding on those people reporting to them. In the case of the president those orders are binding on his staff and on the employees of the various cabinets and departments that report to the executive branch. They are not binding on individual citizens.
Very interesting information. I’ve not heard this detailed information before about the 1933 St Gaudens Double Eagle. I appreciate you sharing this background story with us. 👊🏽
This is such an interesting/crazy story. The fake buyer @ 6:08 pissed me off. They STOLE from him!! His family was dumb to report it too. The Chappelle skit was perfect though hahaha. I love this channel!!
I had a opportunity to pick up one of these Pre-33 recently from local LCS for $1875 I came back the following morning and it was gone 🤦I gotta get this coin in my stack 🥺
Never understood this. Coin was made by the mint, and you could obtain one for a brief time at the Philly mint. 1913 Liberty nickel, made surreptitiously by a rogue mint employee, and is legal to own. Not to mention countless patterns.
According to the Red book, 1964 Peace dollars are also illegal to own(They were all destroyed allegedly), I believe the 1933 $10 Eagle is legal to own but its absurdly expensive. Are there any more illegal US coins?
I haven't looked into the number of illegal coins but I think there might be 3-4. The 64 Peace dollar is interesting. I don't know enough about that topic yet. The $10 Indian would be a grail coin. So rare and expensive.
Such a wonderful Gold Coin. This is one of my most favorite Gold coins given their history as Real money and Roosevelt's Executive order 6102. Which is why I had to get my own Saint Gaudens Gold Double Eagle from 1915 ( Philadelphia ) from my local coin shop. Unfortunately I had to use one of my Gold Certificates ( not really ) to get my Gold Double Eagle coin. Great video as always Campbell's Coins.
Your video is the most complete narration of what happens to those fabulous 1933 Saint Gaudens coins. Obviously we don't have all the facts about every one of them.
What would happen if you kept your mouth shut to the government, or didn't know it was illegal to own, and submitted a 1933 to PCGS for grading? Would PCGS rat you out?
The half ounce, First lady or spouse 2007 to 2008 gives you a great price .9999 fine gold is a really go to gold coin for a little over $1000. Do you get four nines fine gold coin
In this case the $20 Eagles are stolen property never monitized except for 1 coin on a technicality U.S. Treasury has its own enforcement branch that deals with stolen non monetized money, plates,ink,paper,and organized counterfeiting....... its not like the whole Feds are involved
This history was well worth my time, thank you for your time to put it together. Incredible! Yes.... if one of these shows up in my life I will be very quiet. 😂
Damn! I have one of these under the leg of my wobbly kitchen table! Works great. Been there since I was a kid in 1970's. I suppose I should replace it with an old folded up baseball card or something. Thanks for the heads up.
Very true! Just like what's happened with Bitcoin in Canada and China, they can make anything illegal if they choose. But I'd rather have some, than not, illegal or not.
@@CampbellsCoins The value of coins made of precious metal has never been the fact they were legal tender. It's that the metal itself has real world value because it's very useful. Which means, even illegal gold can be made into something legal, so it's always in demand. That's why they have to confiscate all the gold coins.........the value of the gold was farm more than the face value of the coins which presented a problem. So they stole it all back from the people. The only sad part about it was, apparently almost everyone complied. Typical.
Good telling of the story. I hadn't heard it before but it was presented well. I like the couple of current day references as well. Thanks for the video. Got to go check a date on a coin now. Shhh.
Hello, I’m a new subscriber to your channel. I found this story about the 1933 gold double eagle fascinating Thank you for sharing. I’m looking forward to hearing about different coins.🥰
That's actually a topic I'm working on. If they do control the gold price, why do we see different spot prices at the same time on different dealers websites? I'm not entirely sure. Thanks for stopping by!
Goobermint should just get the others slabbed, sell all but one at auction, and give the descendant the last one as a “finders fee” that he could either keep or then sell. Of course, logic vs. Uncle Sam might be a stretch…
Actually, that was for the 90% silver coins. The mints continued to strike Kennedy halves in 40% silver for circulation up until 1969, and the 1970's all went into sets.
A guy I know had a $10 gold certificate in his paper currency collection. He also had various denominations with different colored ink serial numbers. I sold him my $2 note that did not have the signing of the Declaration on the back. He gave me a fair price for it. Sure wish I had kept it now. Thanks for sharing this video, fascinating history.
If the mint employee who originally took them did replace them with other $20 gold coins there was plainly no theft. They were exchanged value for value, the mint paid in full thus suffering no loss in the exchange. I could understand the mint issuing a reprimand, or even dismissal, of the employee if the substitution had been discovered sooner. But how is it a crime when no party suffered any loss or damage? And as the mint suffered no loss how can they claim ownership of a coin when the only thing that differentiated the coins exchanged is the design and date stamped on them, the die for which they still own? That would give them grounds for claiming ownership of even photographs of that coin. .
If I had kept one in 1933 and the government tried to take it from me, they would have to pry it from my cold dead hands! And I would take a few of them with me. But who could afford to keep a $20.00 gold coin in the middle of a depression.
That is what I love a good mystery of if the 1933 St.Gaudens coins actually are still around.also if Swit did get away with 10+ extra coins the government didn't know about and confiscate then his Grandson is likely sitting on a kings ransom,as they said one coin ended up being auctioned off at like 7 million dollars,and if he has 10 of them they should be worth 10x that. But strictly speaking if the Grandson does have them he should hold onto them and pass them on to family members as a final payback to the government that they shouldn't screw with people and their money.Kinda like an ultimate insult to politicians and bigwigs that they got shafted royally. But as for the coins it seems fitting if they still exist and are considered the greatest coin conspiracy of all time and the Swit Family pulled a fast one on the crooked government.
Just bought a 3oz St. Gaudens silver reproduction last year that used the same plates as these coins. This story is really neat. It's my favorite in my collection so far.
MY, GRANDFATHER NEVER TURNED HIS GOLD BACK IN TO THE US GOVERNMENT THIS TOOK PLACE IN THE 1900s. TODAY HE LEFT 2 5 GAL BUCKETS FULL BEHIND TODAY MY FIRST COUSIN HOLDS IT.
Gotta love the ole " do it for your country" only for said country to screw you, name one time in history being loyal to a country vs a people turned out well for said people
If the President basically ripped off Americans, there should be no law against owning a piece of gold currency! What a joke! There could have been a case to sue the Federal government to declare the Law against these coins as unjust and simply because the coins were Obviously issued at one point and to the coins being declared no longer lawful tender, so what is the issue if they are not longer legal tender, then they shouldn't be excepted at any place as legal tender, and since it was a case of voluntarily handing over the coins, you simply cannot confiscate them as this goes against a person's constitutional rights. I'm not even remotely surprised that there were people who didn't hand their coins over, they could have melted them down and the government wouldn't have been the wiser, but since the coin remains in coin form, it suddenly belongs to the government? SOmetimes US law makes me shake my head, with the Constitution being the backbone of American society and how law functions in the US, this particular example makes me blink and stare in confusion. If I had gold and the government said they wanted it back I would have basically told them to stick sideways! It's my gold and you can't have it! especially after he increased the value of gold after he had all of the coins back in the bank!!! WHat crook! Now I understand why he did it, with the War going on and needed to bring in as much money into the federal coffers as possible, but this reeks of corruption. that kind of thing would get a president impeached under any other circumstances.
Who is more obsessed, those who endeavor to own a rare coin, or the ridiculous elected government agents who will waste our money looking for a single gold coin?
Dont report it. Dont grade it. Dont mention it in any docs. Pass it on to the head of the family to watch over till the regime falls. No matter how many generations.
Thanks for watching! I truly appreciate you all!
It's a good video! Thanks to you!
I have gold plated replicas of this coin. One has the date in Roman numerals and the other is in Arabic. Also, one of them is missing "In God We Trust" that's between the sun and its rays on the back. These 2 gold plated replicas as well as a few others that I have are stamped with COPY on the backs in various locations.
@@cvmaniac7286 x
The other gold plated replicas i have are the 1795 $1 coin, 1870 $3 coin, 1879 $4 Stella coin, 1929 $5 Indian coin and the 1849 $20 coin.
DA VA ROG SA DAYI POZELE MELE ACOLO SA VADA DIFERENTELÈ NIMENI NU P9ATE FURA DREPTURILE MELE REGINA MARIA .
It's only illegal to own something deemed illegal if you rat yourself out or get caught. Silence is golden.
And the 'moral' of the story is: Tell the Gov NOTHING!
Couldn’t agree more.
It's completely insane what our government deems worthy of wasting our tax payer money over 😳
Definitely.
It's about control . . .
Our votes never count for the people that control the dollar
Well white Americans are a minority very soon so who care
@@thesilverreich3947 racist.
Lesson learned. Don't tell the government anything.
This just proves how stupid our Government is. All they have done in the long run is spend hundreds of thousands of dollars dealing with a matter that could be rectified almost immediately at little to no cost. JUST LEAVE IT ALONE. The government accomplished one thing in the long run, they made someone a multi-millionaire. This is a good video. Thanks for doing it!
Excellent video, a ton of great information here. I heard something, it was probably on another channel, that a letter was written acknowledging possession of a 1933 double eagle that was overseas. The US government then provided permission to bring the coin over. Then, when the coin was brought over, the coin was seized. The coin owner won a lawsuit given the written permission provided by the government, and it turned out the coin owner had like 9 more of them, which also became legal. These are all just stories I’ve heard, so idk, but it’s a very interesting topic.
🔥🦈🌊
I found something like this once and I've kept it to myself for 53 years for every reason you speak of.
It always amazes me how few Americans will ever hold or own a US Double Eagle. I always thought it was a bucket list coin!
I have a pretty good dealer that consistenly has double eagles.
Doesnt mean i'll buy one. They're beautiful, but pricy. The half eagles are more my jam.
They’re pricey yes. Work harder and get one in your collection. Probably not a 1933. Damn Rosevellt
@@EricBodenstab oh believe me, i will. After i get my fill of half eagles that is 😂
Gold is only valued if two people agree to it
@@thesilverreich3947
That premise is the same to anything having a perceived value.
It is interesting that FDR's executive order is mentioned, but also mentioned is the fact that those coins are illegal to own because they were not monetized and therefore are considered stolen property. FDR's executive order was technically illegal. Executives whether they be the President of the United States governors of individual states or mayors of cities may issue orders that are binding on those people reporting to them. In the case of the president those orders are binding on his staff and on the employees of the various cabinets and departments that report to the executive branch. They are not binding on individual citizens.
Interesting
Very interesting information. I’ve not heard this detailed information before about the 1933 St Gaudens Double Eagle.
I appreciate you sharing this background story with us. 👊🏽
Excellent point about our government and ridiculous spending.
This is such an interesting/crazy story. The fake buyer @ 6:08 pissed me off. They STOLE from him!! His family was dumb to report it too. The Chappelle skit was perfect though hahaha. I love this channel!!
Thanks man! Yeah it's pretty insane. Gotta love Chappelle. Thanks for stopping by!
I've researched this myself, and I'm good with there only being 13 total coins in existence. Great job with the information! ✌🇺🇸
It's an interesting topic. Thanks JKP!
You hit the nail on the head! A lot of people don’t know this!
Thanks P Stacker! Nope it's relatively unknown and (at least to me) pretty interesting.
@@CampbellsCoins yes it is! Definitely interesting, I wish I had one 🤫 lol
This is very well done and I really hope there are five more coins out there.
Very interesting. Thank you for the history lesson. Remember the "Three S" rule of treasure hunting. Shovel, Smelt, Shut up"
Haha indeed.
Amazing Coin collection..good to see you my friend..thank you
I had a opportunity to pick up one of these Pre-33 recently from local LCS for $1875 I came back the following morning and it was gone 🤦I gotta get this coin in my stack 🥺
The St. Gaudens are a must for any collection. A lot of them out there, so you'll have another opportunity. Thanks T&M!
@@CampbellsCoins I'm on it like Hornet 🐝
Best of Luck 🙏🏼
Wow! What an amazing story. Totally agree with your statements on the U.S. government at the end. Great video bud.
I have two of them 1931 and 1932
Never understood this. Coin was made by the mint, and you could obtain one for a brief time at the Philly mint. 1913 Liberty nickel, made surreptitiously by a rogue mint employee, and is legal to own. Not to mention countless patterns.
Yeah. The declaration of legality by folks who are far from experts or understand what they are doing plagues us in many facets of our lives.
Why do they call it double eagle
I don’t see the second one
I found one that has no year and has "copy" stamped on it, what does it mean?
It's a replica.
@@CampbellsCoins any value?
@@Allups50 You'd have to check with your LCS. I can't tell without images.
@@CampbellsCoins got it, thank you for your time.
According to the Red book, 1964 Peace dollars are also illegal to own(They were all destroyed allegedly), I believe the 1933 $10 Eagle is legal to own but its absurdly expensive. Are there any more illegal US coins?
I haven't looked into the number of illegal coins but I think there might be 3-4. The 64 Peace dollar is interesting. I don't know enough about that topic yet. The $10 Indian would be a grail coin. So rare and expensive.
Them:"Turn in your gold!" me:"KISS MY A$$!"
Fascinating story. King Farouk was probably granted a dispensation due to his country's importance to the U.S. during WWII.
Such a wonderful Gold Coin. This is one of my most favorite Gold coins given their history as Real money and Roosevelt's Executive order 6102. Which is why I had to get my own Saint Gaudens Gold Double Eagle from 1915 ( Philadelphia ) from my local coin shop. Unfortunately I had to use one of my Gold Certificates ( not really ) to get my Gold Double Eagle coin.
Great video as always Campbell's Coins.
Authorized by Theodore Roosevelt, confiscated by Franklin Roosevelt. A Roosevelt giveth, a Roosevelt taketh away.
Good stuff. I had only heard parts of the story before; this is the first I have been able to hear the whole story, ty.
Great video I was hooked from start to finish, I’ve always wanted one of these coins. Maybe some day. Thanks for sharing
Thanks J Parker! I know right?! Lots of people chomping at the bit for this one. Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you for sharing this fascinating story.
Thanks for listening
Really interesting story. Certainly a bit of mystery around it. I'll check my stack just incase I've picked a few of these up and forgot about them 🤔
Your video is the most complete narration of what happens to those fabulous 1933 Saint Gaudens coins. Obviously we don't have all the facts about every one of them.
Unfortunately, some speculation is necessary as not a lot is known. Appreciate you watching!
What would happen if you kept your mouth shut to the government, or didn't know it was illegal to own, and submitted a 1933 to PCGS for grading? Would PCGS rat you out?
Great question!
The half ounce, First lady or spouse 2007 to 2008 gives you a great price .9999 fine gold is a really go to gold coin for a little over $1000. Do you get four nines fine gold coin
Yes, the gold buffalo is four 9s fine and is one I stack consistently.
"All your gold are belong to us."
Governments have been doing this since day one.
In this case the $20 Eagles are stolen property never monitized except for 1 coin on a technicality
U.S. Treasury has its own enforcement branch that deals with stolen non monetized money, plates,ink,paper,and organized counterfeiting....... its not like the whole Feds are involved
It's only illegal to own in this country
That was real interesting Keep up the good work I sure do enjoy your video
Fascinating story. Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dang! you did do a lot of research huh. I like the design so i had to get one...got a 1927 MS65. Great Vid
Nice! Can't go wrong with a St. Gaudens. Thanks for watching!
@@CampbellsCoins it's worth getting an ms-66 if you can afford it. Awesome smooth surfaces and great eye appeal
I enjoyed your telling of the story, thank you for sharing ( Watching from Australia )
This history was well worth my time, thank you for your time to put it together. Incredible! Yes.... if one of these shows up in my life I will be very quiet. 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love hearing the history of coins, thank you!
I wonder how many people were actually jailed for not turning in their gold.
I think it was one. But it's the threat they can do it.
Cool. I'm interesting in stories about stolen loot that was hidden and never recovered.
The playboy article goes into way more detail, and talks about how they had a sting operation for its return if you can find it it's way more detailed
Awesome video! Great education! 👍
Damn! I have one of these under the leg of my wobbly kitchen table! Works great. Been there since I was a kid in 1970's. I suppose I should replace it with an old folded up baseball card or something.
Thanks for the heads up.
Awesome two cents!! Love your channel
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks for the informative video!
You bet!
The fact that such illegal to own coins exist tells you all whether gold bullion ownership can be banned in the future.
Very true! Just like what's happened with Bitcoin in Canada and China, they can make anything illegal if they choose. But I'd rather have some, than not, illegal or not.
@@CampbellsCoins The value of coins made of precious metal has never been the fact they were legal tender. It's that the metal itself has real world value because it's very useful. Which means, even illegal gold can be made into something legal, so it's always in demand. That's why they have to confiscate all the gold coins.........the value of the gold was farm more than the face value of the coins which presented a problem. So they stole it all back from the people. The only sad part about it was, apparently almost everyone complied. Typical.
Good telling of the story. I hadn't heard it before but it was presented well. I like the couple of current day references as well. Thanks for the video. Got to go check a date on a coin now. Shhh.
weird I have one of these 1910 double eagles my grandfather gave me, never told me where he got them.
Nice!
I have a 1920 $20 st gaudens and a 1927 $20 gold coin note and a 1920 $10 gold coin note I’m just waiting to find $10 gold coin to have the full set
Very interesting. Thanks for the info.
Thanks so much!
Sir I have an one mexican coin. 50 Pesos 37.5gr ORO PURO 1821 -1947. I found this coin in kuwait. Would you please tell me is my coin are valuable.
Well how do you sell it then?
Its insane!
I have a coin kind of like that but I think its call a golden eagle coin?
Is that worth anything? (Just wondering!)
Kind of hard to say without seeing it. Best to take it to your LCS
@@CampbellsCoins Thanks!
Awesome!!! I heard this story something close to this!!
Very cool! Lots of variations out there
Hello, I’m a new subscriber to your channel. I found this story about the 1933 gold double eagle fascinating Thank you for sharing. I’m looking forward to hearing about different coins.🥰
Now if i have 10 of these i would just keep quiet and leave them for my future generations 😊
Coin is Sweet piece of history.
I had thought London (The LBMA) controls the gold price ?
Thx for the informative video!!
That's actually a topic I'm working on. If they do control the gold price, why do we see different spot prices at the same time on different dealers websites? I'm not entirely sure. Thanks for stopping by!
Goobermint should just get the others slabbed, sell all but one at auction, and give the descendant the last one as a “finders fee” that he could either keep or then sell.
Of course, logic vs. Uncle Sam might be a stretch…
Good story I enjoyed it and it was funny. 👍🏽
Thank you 😁
Our government is getting to involved with America citizens, our government should follow citizens rules
1964 was the last year of the silver coin but is very awesome watching your videos
What did I say? Thanks for watching Charles!
I caught that, too. In the video, you said 1965.
@@lkilkenny9426 pre 65 is everything before it, not including it.
In the video, the narrator didn't say "...pre 1965..."
Actually, that was for the 90% silver coins. The mints continued to strike Kennedy halves in 40% silver for circulation up until 1969, and the 1970's all went into sets.
So cool man. Thanks for the story.
Interesting bit of history thanks
Fascinating story!👍🏻
I liked the Afghanistan reference best
A guy I know had a $10 gold certificate in his paper currency collection. He also had various denominations with different colored ink serial numbers. I sold him my $2 note that did not have the signing of the Declaration on the back. He gave me a fair price for it. Sure wish I had kept it now. Thanks for sharing this video, fascinating history.
Very nice Tony! Gold certificates are really cool but unfortunately we don't see many anymore.
If the mint employee who originally took them did replace them with other $20 gold coins there was plainly no theft.
They were exchanged value for value, the mint paid in full thus suffering no loss in the exchange.
I could understand the mint issuing a reprimand, or even dismissal, of the employee if the substitution had been discovered sooner.
But how is it a crime when no party suffered any loss or damage?
And as the mint suffered no loss how can they claim ownership of a coin when the only thing that differentiated the coins exchanged is the design and date stamped on them, the die for which they still own?
That would give them grounds for claiming ownership of even photographs of that coin.
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Totally agree.
If I had kept one in 1933 and the government tried to take it from me, they would have to pry it from my cold dead hands! And I would take a few of them with me. But who could afford to keep a $20.00 gold coin in the middle of a depression.
That is what I love a good mystery of if the 1933 St.Gaudens coins actually are still around.also if Swit did get away with 10+ extra coins the government didn't know about and confiscate then his Grandson is likely sitting on a kings ransom,as they said one coin ended up being auctioned off at like 7 million dollars,and if he has 10 of them they should be worth 10x that.
But strictly speaking if the Grandson does have them he should hold onto them and pass them on to family members as a final payback to the government that they shouldn't screw with people and their money.Kinda like an ultimate insult to politicians and bigwigs that they got shafted royally.
But as for the coins it seems fitting if they still exist and are considered the greatest coin conspiracy of all time and the Swit Family pulled a fast one on the crooked government.
they may say it's not robbery if its legal
What about the copy/proof
Just bought a 3oz St. Gaudens silver reproduction last year that used the same plates as these coins. This story is really neat. It's my favorite in my collection so far.
Like you said, it's a "reproduction" nothing more, millions can be reproduce.
@@wolfyklip but there weren’t millions made genius. Move on.
I'm checking under my sofa cushions right now!
MY, GRANDFATHER NEVER TURNED HIS GOLD BACK IN TO THE US GOVERNMENT THIS TOOK PLACE IN THE 1900s. TODAY HE LEFT 2 5 GAL BUCKETS FULL BEHIND TODAY MY FIRST COUSIN HOLDS IT.
Good for him! And your family!
I spit out mu coffee..... great video!
I have two of these coins 1931 and 1932
Nice!
Illegal to own IN America. But completely legal everywhere else.
Great video!
Very very interesting
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching!
Beautiful coin. They should reissue it.
I think so too!
Awesome story!
I have 2 and I'm keeping them
Of course you do
Gotta love the ole " do it for your country" only for said country to screw you, name one time in history being loyal to a country vs a people turned out well for said people
In God we trust.....forget about anyone else including all governments.
Ha ha, that was right at the tail end of prohibition, the government should have looked at that example and known it was a fool’s errand
Why should any precious metal be illegal to own
It shouldn't.
Goes to show that we must never sell a 33 to an American.
HAHA
Wish I had one of those coins.
You and me both!
A kite stole 10
I guess I can scratch this off my List.
They want them back so bad so people don't counterfeit them I guess. Still they are messed up though
Isn't that coin the die was stolen too?
Unsure.
If the President basically ripped off Americans, there should be no law against owning a piece of gold currency! What a joke! There could have been a case to sue the Federal government to declare the Law against these coins as unjust and simply because the coins were Obviously issued at one point and to the coins being declared no longer lawful tender, so what is the issue if they are not longer legal tender, then they shouldn't be excepted at any place as legal tender, and since it was a case of voluntarily handing over the coins, you simply cannot confiscate them as this goes against a person's constitutional rights. I'm not even remotely surprised that there were people who didn't hand their coins over, they could have melted them down and the government wouldn't have been the wiser, but since the coin remains in coin form, it suddenly belongs to the government? SOmetimes US law makes me shake my head, with the Constitution being the backbone of American society and how law functions in the US, this particular example makes me blink and stare in confusion. If I had gold and the government said they wanted it back I would have basically told them to stick sideways! It's my gold and you can't have it! especially after he increased the value of gold after he had all of the coins back in the bank!!! WHat crook! Now I understand why he did it, with the War going on and needed to bring in as much money into the federal coffers as possible, but this reeks of corruption. that kind of thing would get a president impeached under any other circumstances.
What the government doesn't know won't hurt them
Who is more obsessed, those who endeavor to own a rare coin, or the ridiculous elected government agents who will waste our money looking for a single gold coin?
The question really answers itself.
Dont report it. Dont grade it. Dont mention it in any docs. Pass it on to the head of the family to watch over till the regime falls. No matter how many generations.