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  1. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Oh, I agree, the repeal of the Gold Reserve Act by President Gerald Ford in 1974 is the current law and what is now binding. But I think...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:56 AM

  2. GoldFinger1969 replied to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Gold was the means -- or was BELIEVED to be the means -- by which you increase the money supply. If people hoarded gold...the money...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:55 AM

  3. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Yes, I see the government picked on the Quarter Eagle fans! As always, the government can get clumsy, and yes, there were ginormous...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:13 AM

  4. GoldFinger1969 replied to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Yes, there you had the equivalent of the numismatic exemption at play....family heirlooms and sentimental gifts. I don't recall...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:13 AM

  5. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Upon skimming the memo (need more time to review it - OK, just finished it), it offers an interpretation of the Gold Reserve Act of...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:12 AM

  6. GoldFinger1969 replied to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Different time, different era. We were ON a gold standard then....whereas today we are not. :p Gold holdings by most Americans were...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:11 AM

  7. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Admittedly, I have yet to read the memo at the top of the thread - I will have to analyze it. But I was able to dig up - this is for...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM

  8. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    I'm busy doing some personal errands, but preliminarily I am not too convinced by a Treasury Department memo from many decades ago,...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM

  9. GoldFinger1969 replied to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    This Treasury Memorandum is only of interest in the context of the gold prohibitions by FDR a decade earlier. For now.....gold's...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 9:45 AM

  10. GoldFinger1969 replied to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    When you read the history books, it seems like Bretton Woods was on autopilot from 1944 to 1971. In fact, there were speedbumps in...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM

  11. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    So as late as 1961 there were concerns about gold competing against the U.S. dollar by government officials, even though we have been...

    Mar 17, 2026 at 12:48 AM

  12. GoldFinger1969 liked jolumoga's post in the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    I believe you can post snippets under the fair use doctrine. Just take the most pertinent sections and feel free to post them. I suggest...

    Mar 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM

  13. GoldFinger1969 liked mpcusa's post in the thread They're Coming After Everything BUT Gold This Time.

    The answer is simple give everything to your kids before you die !

    Mar 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM

  14. GoldFinger1969 attached a file to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    These are NY Times articles. Like this one from 65 years ago, January 14, 1961: [ATTACH]

    NYT 01-15-61 Ike vs. Gold.jpg Mar 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM

  15. GoldFinger1969 replied to the thread 1944 Gold Coin Treasury Memorandum (& other cool stuff).

    Louis Eliasberg was quoted by friends and those in the busness as saying he got into numismatic gold as a way to hold gold coins above...

    Mar 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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