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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;H8_modern, post: 2718290, member: 28531&quot;]They were made, not officially released and then all were supposed to have been melted. There is a possibility that the cashier traded some damaged coins for good coins and could have taken 1933s and issued them. The Langbord relative, I want to say Ira Switt,&nbsp; was a coin dealer and could have had an &quot;arrangement&quot; with a mint employee to get newly minted coins each year. Either way, he still would have paid for the coins with gold or paper money rather than stolen them. I&#039;m not convinced one way or the other whether they were obtained legally or illegally which is why I don&#039;t think it&#039;s right that the family isn&#039;t compensated in some way. That said, they were idiots for turning over all of them to the government and asking what they thought should be done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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