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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4115041, member: 73489"]I think you're probably right but this possibility has gone from Kookyville to merely Highly Unlikely. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> With the internet and global gold ownership, I don't think you could have a U.S. ban or restriction on gold. Little-known fact:  most of the gold owners in the 1930's who turned in their gold were 1st or 2nd generation immigrants, many of whom didn't speak English.  They were wary of doing something illegal and so handed in their gold coins. I believe my grandfather alone had several Double Eagle gold coins he had accumulated in his time in the merchant marines.  In fact, believe it or not, I believe he may have had a 1927-D Saint. My mother swears that in the 1950's or 1960's (she can't remember when) my grandfather (who used to read The NY Times every day for 80 years) he read that a coin he once had was sold for like $2,000 or something like that.  100x what he paid for it or what it was given to him as money.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I believe 1927-D's sold for a few thousand dollars in the 1950's or early-1960's.[/QUOTE]