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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2136623, member: 73489&quot;]But the Treasury Export letter was the Smoking Gun that it may NOT have been unlawfully smuggled out.&nbsp; We just don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conder, the Treasury Dept. and Secret Service were not obsessed with illegal currency in the 1930&#039;s and certainly not the 1940&#039;s (something more important was going on over in Europe then<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ). So it wasn&#039;t until they became aware that there might be a few dozen 1933 DEs that they started to pursue it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ads for a 1933 DE were 1-time things.&nbsp; It may have escaped scrutiny from the Treasury/SS but I can tell you 1933 DEs were NOT showing up at coin shows and were NOT widely traded except in secret.&nbsp; Everyone knew all the 1933&#039;s were supposed to have been melted down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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