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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theodosius, post: 2575106, member: 77077&quot;]Not to mention that without any collectors market giving things value beyond their metal content, antiquities and coins get melted and sold as scrap silver and gold.&nbsp; There are many cases of this happening.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t make something a criminal crime retroactively in the US, that just goes against all legal precedence in this country. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow">United States</a>, the Congress is prohibited from passing <i>ex post facto</i> laws by clause 3 of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">Article I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_9:_Limits_on_Congress" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_9:_Limits_on_Congress" rel="nofollow">Section 9</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">United States Constitution</a>. The states are prohibited from passing <i>ex post facto</i> laws by clause 1 of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">Article I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_10:_Limits_on_the_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_10:_Limits_on_the_States" rel="nofollow">Section 10</a>. This is one of the relatively few restrictions that the United States Constitution made to both the power of the federal and state governments before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">Fourteenth Amendment</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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