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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1223549, member: 66&quot;]But Burdette turned up paperwork that show that some of them WERE transferred to the Cash window.&nbsp; We aren&#039;t talking an assay box or something like that.&nbsp; We are talking about a window office at the Mint where the general public could walk up and ask for new coins (or at least recent coins) and exchange for them at face value.&nbsp; In the case of gold at that time it had to be a gold for gold exchange.&nbsp; They couldn&#039;t pay out gold but they could exchange it.&nbsp; Shortly thereafter that was changed to no paying out of gold at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think what it will hinge on is how complete the cash window records are, and how they were kept.&nbsp; If they routinely recorded what denominations and dates were exchanged and no 33 double eagles are recorded then it will strengthen the governments case.&nbsp; If they just record amounts then it opens up the possibility that legal exchanges may have occurred.&nbsp; And if legal exchanges may have occurred then they would have to prove that those specific coins were not involved in any such exchange, and that they can not do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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