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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1554861, member: 66"]Of course since these coins are now all items of historical importance and of course our cultural heritage, the obvious next step is to require all coins issued before 1965 to be immediately surrendered to the new Dept of Cultural Heritage which will see to their distribution to museums.  Private ownership of all coins dated before 1965 will hereby be outlawed.  Anyone found to be holding pre-1965 after a date to be determined by June 1st 2013, will be fined an amount to be not less than three times it's FMV as determined by the 2013 Redbook. That may sounds silly but it is not that far off from some of the "Cultural Heritage" rules followed by other countries.  You get all the older coins declared "Historical", and a regulation such as I posted above does NOT become too far fetched.  They have tried to outlaw coin collecting before, don't give them another reason to try again.  After all, can't you see the government being happy to gather in all the old gold and silver coins, at little or no cost, distributing some to museums, and of course the no melting rule doesn't apply to THEM, so all that huge mass of gold and silver from the common coins can be sold off and the money spent.[/QUOTE]