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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5319698, member: 27832"]And all he had to do to get that price was wait... a hundred years or so. The coins were worth ten cents each when they were minted. It was early in the year; according to some accounts I've read, the assumption was that more would be struck before the end of the year. And what else would you have Mint employees do "at taxpayer expense" besides striking legal-tender coins, and issuing them at face value? In what possible sense was this "basically stealing from American citizens"? IMHO, these coins are in no way equivalent to the "1913 Liberty Head nickels", or the 1804 dollar restrikes, or even the 1933 double eagles. At least two of these dimes have circulated, to the point where they're in G4 or AG3 condition. Then again, maybe you're right, and we should go after the descendants of those nefarious Mint workers who issued the 40,000 1913-S quarters at face value, or the 264,000 1916-D dimes. After all, think of all the millions of dollars that could have flowed into the treasury if those had been saved and sold directly to collectors! And since every one of them came out of the Mint at face value, everyone who currently owns one should be required to surrender it at face value. Or was that "forfeit it with no compensation at all"?[/QUOTE]