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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C Jay, post: 1229212, member: 13184&quot;]This has been an interesting trial.&nbsp; For the most part, I agree with the verdict.&nbsp; Under the heading of &quot;crime doesn&#039;t pay&quot;&nbsp; Izzy Swift never made much money off these coins and had 8 of the illeged 20 coins seized as part of the 1933 gold confiscation law.&nbsp; The remaining 10 were found by his heirs in his safety deposit box wrapped up in a sandwich wrapper.&nbsp; It was property he couldn&#039;t sell.&nbsp; What I don&#039;t like about the trial is the demonization of the heirs on behalf of the government.&nbsp; They are the ones who sent them to the Treasury Department, who swore at that time that these coins did not exist, and had accounted for all 1933 Saint Gaudens.&nbsp; Apparently they were wrong.&nbsp; I would awarded a recovery fee to the family, even though their grandfather may have been a crook.&nbsp; The kids did the right thing, and unable to prove that a theft occured after two Secret Service investigations, the government did not.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinworld.com/search/?q=10+1933+Trial&amp;models=articles.article" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinworld.com/search/?q=10+1933+Trial&amp;models=articles.article" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinworld.com/search/?q=10+1933+Trial&amp;models=articles.article</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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