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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 1555585, member: 2098"]I support Detecto's proposed Historical Coin Protection Act. The production of hobo nickels and coin carvings, etc. on pre-1965 coinage also needs to be outlawed. What needs to be added to this section is the exportation of these historical coins to other countries. The exportation of a small amount for collecting purposes should be allowed but exporting bulk amounts of pre-1965 coins needs to be made illegal as well. This will help prevent people from circumventing the prohibition against the destruction of these historic coins by sending them out to be melted abroad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in 2005, I had firsthand conversations with a coin smelter and let me tell you that coin smelters don't have a conscience. They are evil, they have a heart of charcoal. This coin smelter used to bring trays full of perfectly good half dollars dating as far back as 1917 to a local coin club that I used to belong to. These trays also had a lot of Mint Beautiful Uncirculated 1964 Kennedy halves. This coin smelter would often tell me that whatever doesn't sell tonight was going to be refined in the coming week. One time his wife saw how I was turning pale at what this man was telling me so she tried to justify her husband's actions by saying how much money he made by doing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin smelter, his wife (if they are still alive, they were kind of old back then) and all other coin smelters belong in prison. Once a coin has been melted, it is gone forever and there is no bringing it back. This destruction is inexcusable. I propose that the HCPA be further amended to allow for the retroactive prosecution of anyone who has smelted any pre-1965 United States silver coinage. This may be prohibited by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution but I don't care. I say amend the Constitution. The Constitution can use some modernization, anyway, and what better way to do it than by passing the HCPA with an ex post facto law.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 1555585, member: 2098"]I support Detecto's proposed Historical Coin Protection Act. The production of hobo nickels and coin carvings, etc. on pre-1965 coinage also needs to be outlawed. What needs to be added to this section is the exportation of these historical coins to other countries. The exportation of a small amount for collecting purposes should be allowed but exporting bulk amounts of pre-1965 coins needs to be made illegal as well. This will help prevent people from circumventing the prohibition against the destruction of these historic coins by sending them out to be melted abroad. Back in 2005, I had firsthand conversations with a coin smelter and let me tell you that coin smelters don't have a conscience. They are evil, they have a heart of charcoal. This coin smelter used to bring trays full of perfectly good half dollars dating as far back as 1917 to a local coin club that I used to belong to. These trays also had a lot of Mint Beautiful Uncirculated 1964 Kennedy halves. This coin smelter would often tell me that whatever doesn't sell tonight was going to be refined in the coming week. One time his wife saw how I was turning pale at what this man was telling me so she tried to justify her husband's actions by saying how much money he made by doing it. This coin smelter, his wife (if they are still alive, they were kind of old back then) and all other coin smelters belong in prison. Once a coin has been melted, it is gone forever and there is no bringing it back. This destruction is inexcusable. I propose that the HCPA be further amended to allow for the retroactive prosecution of anyone who has smelted any pre-1965 United States silver coinage. This may be prohibited by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution but I don't care. I say amend the Constitution. The Constitution can use some modernization, anyway, and what better way to do it than by passing the HCPA with an ex post facto law.[/QUOTE]
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