Nobody thought the coins would be destroyed at the time otherwise they would have asked higher-ups why spend $$$ minting coins that will be melted...
Actually, the 1933 Saints started to be struck on March 2nd, 1933 -- during the Hoover Administration. The governments records on 1933 Saints...
Oh, they were never MONETIZED !! Like every other coin other than the "Farouk" coin: :D [ATTACH] The government came up with the monetization...
Source ? They were never circulated, so how could they be pulled ? :D
The Mint and Treasury say otherwise. Actually, he never mentioned it. Had he run on a policy of taking American's gold holdings, he might not...
Even the Mint/Treasury said the public could exchange coins up to April 12th, 1933.
But not those with numismatic or sentimental value. That wasn't clear at the time -- in fact, the Mint struck 1933 Saints up to May because the...
If the Cashier had the coins, they were available to the public.
It's not clear it was prohibited from being exchanged, that's the point. And we don't know WHEN the exchange took place, since it could have...
What is an "inferior" coin ? They are both 1 ounce gold coins with a face value of $20. Just because the coin had great value in the numismatic...
Nope, Mint officials often were allowed to swap older Saints for newer ones to sell to Philly or NYC collectors. Had been going on for a decade...
It's not so much a question of who is worth watching, it's whether that information will be the SOLE input into one's collecting or investing...
One more thing.....Mint and Treasury officials were certainly aware that 1933 Saints were sold in the 1930's. They saw the advertisements in...
Exchanges of older dates and mintmarks for new releases was common practice at the Philly Mint. If the market value for 1933 Saints wasn't ~ $800...
The Treasury Export License was granted because they had ASSUMED -- incorrectly -- that 1933 Saints had been released. Therefore, the only...
If 10 coins were taken from the Philly Mint, I'd expect there to be a shortfall of 10 ounces of gold. The gold books balanced. The coins were...
That's the same coin as the current one (as it should be -- Stacks/Bowers is behind both coins)....you said that there are pics of a "Farouk" coin...
Well, we have different definitions of the word "stolen." :D
If the CoinWEEK article is correct, it's likely the Kodak-Browning 1933 which was kept from the government after Stack lost his court case in 1950.
Those coins were graded, though they are sitting in Fort Knox, waiting for my associates Pussy Galore and Odd Job to liberate them. :D FWIW, the...
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