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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 624319, member: 66&quot;]Well they didn&#039;t threaten us with death, but were you aware that during the coin shortages of the early 1960&#039;s a bill was submitted to Congress to outlaw coin collecting in the United States and to make it a criminal offense to sell any coin for a greater amount than its face value?</p><p><br /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I would say what they meant by that was that you could not buy and sell coins in bulk&nbsp; most likely for their metal value.&nbsp; Same reason we now have a law that forbids us to meld down cents or five cent pieces, and limits the amount of them we can export lest they be melted down elsewhere.&nbsp; It&#039;s a measure intended to try and keep the coins in circulation rather than having to be constantly replaced.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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