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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4283838, member: 101855&quot;]The Philadelphia Mint had a policy that they would exchange new coins for old ones over the counter. That was the claim that was made about the legality of the 1933 double eagles. It’s a guess, but I would say that Iggy Switt probably went to the mint every year with old double eagles and exchanged them for new ones. No one thought anything about it until 1933 with Franklin Roosevelt had his gold surrender order.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have to remember that nobody thought anything about the 1933 double eagles that were in numismatic circulation until the early 1940s when a Washington bureaucrat, whose name I will not allow with which to clutter my brain, found the he could make a career out of tracking down the people who had these coins. Since there was a small number of 1933 eagles that were released legally, this this desk jockey probably didn’t go after those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since you say that only four of those coins were issued legally, does that transaction make any sense to you? What were the circumstances? Why would the mint bother to issue only four pieces out of mintage of 312,500 coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of unanswered questions concerning this 1933 coins. I wouldn’t give the government any ideas because we could be wasting for taxpayer millions on more stupid court trials over them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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