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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 282999, member: 66"]Wouldn't faze the government at all. I've known than since I once attended an IRS tax sale where they were selling counterfeit bust dollars as genuine, including a reeded edge 1804 that they were representing as one of the restrikes listed in the Redbook (Yes they made specific reference to the redbook listing). And they continued to do so even after it was brought to their attention that they were fakes and not legal to own. </p><p><br /></p><p>The IRS one arm of the Treasury Dept, fraudulently selling items liable for confiscation by the Secret Service, another arm of the Treasury Dept.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also doubt you would get any gold eagles from the mint for your gold bar. I don't know if the government still buys gold that way (and if they did you might only get the official government price of $41.25 per oz.). The mint doesn't sell the unc to the public so you probably could get those. I believe about the only thing the mint could do with your gold deposit would be to assay it and return it to you in the form of gold bars with a government assay stamp.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 282999, member: 66"]Wouldn't faze the government at all. I've known than since I once attended an IRS tax sale where they were selling counterfeit bust dollars as genuine, including a reeded edge 1804 that they were representing as one of the restrikes listed in the Redbook (Yes they made specific reference to the redbook listing). And they continued to do so even after it was brought to their attention that they were fakes and not legal to own. The IRS one arm of the Treasury Dept, fraudulently selling items liable for confiscation by the Secret Service, another arm of the Treasury Dept. I also doubt you would get any gold eagles from the mint for your gold bar. I don't know if the government still buys gold that way (and if they did you might only get the official government price of $41.25 per oz.). The mint doesn't sell the unc to the public so you probably could get those. I believe about the only thing the mint could do with your gold deposit would be to assay it and return it to you in the form of gold bars with a government assay stamp.[/QUOTE]
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