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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1693200, member: 66&quot;]Actually I am not wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>73d Congress Sess I Chs 48, 49 June 5,6 1933&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; pg 133</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>All coins and currencies of the United States</b> (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations)<b> heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues,</b> except that gold coins, when below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion to their actual weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Approved, June 5, 1933, 4:40 PM</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This would have restored the legal tender status to the trade dollars (and given it to the half cents as well)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe that Mehl had the coins.&nbsp; They all came out of the mint through William Idler and then passed on to his dealer son in law Capt John Haseltine and were not revealed to the collecting world until around 1910.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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