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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 659264, member: 66&quot;]Do you know how many times they have &quot;all been accounted for&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>After the gld recall and melt there were two in the Smitsonial and all the rest had been destroyed and they were &quot;all accounted for&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From the mid thirties to 1944 the coins are openly bought and sold and even advertised for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then Farouk gets an export license for one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then one cin is placed in a Stacks auction, the first time one was to be auctioned (the rest had all been private sales)&nbsp; A reporter asks questions of the government as to why such a recent coin would be so valuable.&nbsp; The government investigates decides they are illegal and traces nine coins&nbsp; They confiscate eight and Farouk has the ninth.&nbsp; They announce that &quot;all the coins have now been accounted for&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple years later Eliasburg asks if since all nine &quot;stolen&quot; coins have been accounted for, can he keep his tenth one?&nbsp; No,&nbsp; OK NOW they are all accounted for!</p><p><br /></p><p>Then Izzy&#039;s family turns up ten MORE coins.&nbsp; The government now has those and they say they have all been accounted for.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is a picture fro 1980 out there of yet another specimen that doesn&#039;t match any of the known coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So that is two in the Smithsonian, nine confiscated and destroyed in the forties, the Fenton/Farouk coin, the ten Izzy coins, and the one photographed coin.&nbsp; That two that have been in the governments hands all along and 20, possibly 21 that trace to Izzy.</p><p>(There were also some claims from people who were at the 1954 Farouk sale that the coin in that auction is NOT the same coin as the Fenton/Farouk coin.&nbsp; So it could still be outthere or it could be the one in the 1980 photo.)&nbsp; There were stories long ago that Izzy at one time had 25 coins.&nbsp; If that was true, we&#039;ve now seen 21 of them meaning there COULD be as many as four more of them out there.&nbsp; But of course , THEY&#039;VE ALL ALREADY BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR.&nbsp; The government says so.........again[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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