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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2134031, member: 66&quot;]No because there was an exception in the order.&nbsp; They could hold gold coins considered to be &quot;rare or unusual&quot;.&nbsp; And what did that mean?&nbsp; Rare and unusual was defined to mean any gold coin made before I believe April 5, 1933.&nbsp; (Except you couldn&#039;t have more that four quarter eagles of the same date and mint.&nbsp; Don&#039;t ask me why that weird restriction was in there.)&nbsp; Which actually meant that the people could have actually held onto just about all of their gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The exception was not in the original draft of the order.&nbsp; it was added through the influence of the Sec of the Treasury, William Woodin.&nbsp; He was a good friend of Roosevelt, and a coin collector who happened to collect gold coins.&nbsp; The exception was put in so his buddy could keep his collection and add to it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know no assets were ever seized from any safe deposit boxes.&nbsp; People could not access them during the bank holiday, but even for those banks that closed the people got their box contents back.&nbsp; (The contents were not assets of the bank.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He obtained at least 20&nbsp; (General consensus among collectors and dealers in the early 1970&#039;s was that he had 25.)&nbsp; The nine coins the government rounded up in the mid 1940&#039;s and the Farouk coin all traced back to Izzy as well.&nbsp; So there are those ten, and the ten Lanbord coins.&nbsp; Plus it is a picture from 1980 of one that does not match any of the previous ones.&nbsp; Also there is some question as to whether the Fenton coin really is the Farouk coin.&nbsp; A couple people who were at the 1954 Farouk sale have said it is not the same coin that was in the sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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