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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1229191, member: 26302"]TYVM for posting the article. I enjoyed it. I still defend the governments position and say his argument is tenuous at best. On a jury I would have voted the way the jury did. EVEN assuming that the 43 pieces were doubles, (it never says what they were), AND assuming that somehow in that huge pile they managed to pick out the 1933's, then what about the $10 in circulation today? It just stretches the bounds of possibility, and I would judge the government has a stronger case than the heirs, which is all that is required in a civil case. This is not "beyond a benefit of the doubt" like a criminal case, in which case that argument would make me vote no, but in a civil case its just who do you think has a stronger case for legal ownership, which I think the government has. The problem, really, to me is why they hid them for so long. If they REALLY thought they had the right to own them, why wait until all potential witnesses are dead? Waiting so long to me is them simply wishing that all witnesses are dead to make their case easier, so to me this wait also strengthens the governments case that they are the true owners and the plaintiffs by hiding the coins are showing their guilt.[/QUOTE]