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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 26811837, member: 73489&quot;]<b>You make some good points, the note is pretty clear.&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>A simple paying of a premium is enough for Treasury to tell Secret Service to not waste their time.&nbsp; Not only are the courts likely to use any premium payment as de facto evidence of numismatic and special value....but you may have the force of a fact-finding by a court, backed up by professional numismatists, that these coins are of &quot;special value&quot; and that you can&#039;t prove intent based on the <b><i>U.S. vs. 98 Double Eagles</i></b> case.</p><p><br /></p><p>The government may have won the battle (against Israel Switt) but lost the war (against legitimately licensed coin dealers and numismatists).</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt the government tries anything like the 1930&#039;s again because the numerical advantage it had then with minimal financial asset ownership, including gold, is today 10-20x as large.&nbsp; It would be like banning private home ownership.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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