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Message:: [QUOTE="Caleb, post: 1686107, member: 32795"]A little history lesson: Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution gives the power to Congress to among other things:“To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.” With the passage of the “Coinage Act of 1965” in September 1965, Congress who has the constitution authority to coin money and regulate it’s value, basically monetized all coins that the United States ever minted before it’s enactment under Section 102: “All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private.....” By Congress adding the verbiage “regardless of when coined or issued” (notice that they used the word “or”, not “and”) meant that Congress was going to finial recognize (monetize) the half cent, trade dollars and any other planchets that the US mint struck over the years that has a face value including Patterns. Why the Langbords’ attorney didn’t use the “Coinage Act of 1965” when the Government claimed that the coins in question were never monetized is anyone’s guess. I guess there is a reason why attorneys are not “rocket scientist” or “brain surgeons”. [/QUOTE]