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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1527029, member: 66&quot;]They did.&nbsp; They couldn&#039;t do anything about it as long as Farouk had the coin because he had been given an export license for it by the government.&nbsp; After he was ousted and the Egyptian government was selling the coins our government requested its return.&nbsp; The Egyptians declined.&nbsp; At the sale it was bulk lotted with a lot of other double eagles and the attendees requested it be withdrawn since it could not be brought back to the US.&nbsp; It was withdrawn and disappeared until it surfaced in England with someone who claimed he had gotten it from and Egyptian Colonel.&nbsp; Coin dealer Stephen Fenton brought it to New York and the Feds went after it and confiscated it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There was going to be a court case over it as well but the governments case was weak because of the export license so before it came to trial they reached a deal to auction the coin and split the proceeds.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A 1980 dated photo of one exists that does not match any of the eleven known coins, and the photo date proves it can&#039;t be one of the other nine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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