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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2193093, member: 15929&quot;]He was a cashier.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1933 Saints DID Make it to the Cashiers Office.</p><p><br /></p><p>At that point in time and for some time later, ANYBODY could go to the Cashier and exchange old gold for new gold. It was a small window of opportunity but it DID exist and Roger Burnetts research PROVED that it existed via US Mint documents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at it like the 15 minute sellout of the Truman Dollars.</p><p>Those that new the window was opening were poised and waiting to take advantage of the &quot;opportunity&quot;. Collectors and Dealers had their fingers on the pulse of the US Mint back then, just like they do today and this gold confiscation order didn&#039;t just materialize in one night. It was rationalized, thought about, discussed, mulled over and every other descriptive term you can think of. Why do you suppose Roosevelt issued the order? Was it possibly that he knew it didn&#039;t have an Ice Cubes chance of passing by Congress? I&#039;m sure that it had been floated around and that folks new about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Izzy Switt did exactly what collectors and dealers do today. He was right there at the window, except that it wasn&#039;t just the 10 gold pieces. Records show that Switt had sold at least 10 others which ultimately were confiscated or surrendered by the folks that bought them. All in all, I expect that at least 50 of these coins left the US Mint which would have been a $1,000 bag as old gold exchanges.</p><p><br /></p><p>Theft? The government never proved a theft. They discredited Roger Burnette&#039;s testimony due to comments he&#039;d mad on the CU Forums and disqualified him as a witness.</p><p><br /></p><p>What the government DID do, was convince the &quot;Jury&quot; that there had been a theft through the implications of circumstantial evidence. In other words, as some poster already stated, we never issued them so they &quot;must&quot; have been stolen.</p><p>Of course, the &quot;theft&quot; is now being put onto the US Mint Cashier and not on IZZY Switt.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really hope the coins get returned to the Langbord&#039;s since this entire episode has been nothing more than a waste of government expenditures from the very beginning and for what reason, I just do not know.</p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly could NOT be for the reason that they represent stolen property because the 1913 nickels represent actual stolen property. So do the multitude of &quot;manufactured&quot; error coins that would have been physically impossible to fit within the plastic proof lens of the time!</p><p>There&#039;s even a 1974 Aluminum Cent floating around that the government KNOWS about yet, nothing is being done. Nobody is being prosecuted.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a waste of resources that could be used on some other prosecution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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