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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dbblsanta, post: 321294, member: 9189&quot;]It was my understanding that a face value was stamped on bullion so that it could be considered a legal tender coin for coin collectors. I thought it was purely a symbolic measure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, if the government ever had to take a 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent for public use (not that they would, this is just speaking hypothetically), &quot;just compensation&quot; would surely not be the one-cent face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the government has never confiscated gold since the 1930s, so we have no idea just what &quot;just compensation&quot; would mean. However, if gold were to be confiscated, it would be done so by an Act of Congress (Legislative Branch) or by an Executive Order (Executive Branch), while the &quot;just compensation&quot; clause would be interpreted by the Judicial Branch. Therefore, the same branch of the government that would be confiscating the gold would not be the same branch that would have the final say on what &quot;just compensation&quot; means.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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