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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2135851, member: 73489&quot;]Joan Langbord worked for her father Izzy Switt for years....I&#039;m sure she knew about the coins.&nbsp; Her sons, I&#039;m not sure.&nbsp; I&#039;ve met one of them, he&#039;s an entertainment lawyer.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure about that. </p><p><br /></p><p>The government may not have been pursuing them, but I wouldn&#039;t say they were bought and sold like a 1932 or 1924 Saint.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But the coin itself was illegal if not properly monetized.&nbsp; NONE of the 445,000 DEs were ever OFFICIALLY released.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the rub, Conder.&nbsp; If the government has to prove the coins are stolen, it&#039;s game-set-match Langbords.&nbsp; If the Langbord&#039;s have to prove they were NOT stolen, game-set-match government.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the government is the sole possessor/minter of coins...and since the coins were never OFFICIALLY released...and since the exchange policy is mostly hearsay (it&#039;s not &quot;beyond a reasonable doubt&quot; certified).....the Langbord&#039;s were at a disadvantage.&nbsp; Because the judges/courts had established that if you had possession of such a coin, it was ASSUMED to be stolen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which I think is wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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