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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;softmentor, post: 2484163, member: 10469&quot;]Kurt first I want to say thank you for your integrity in serving us, the people of the United States, in your capacity in government. and for the record I think it was a great decision. </p><p>I do wonder, now, what will the gov. do with the coins? will they melt them as per the law that ordered all of them melted? Is there some provision of subsequent law re gold and coin that would allow them to not destroy them?</p><p>I think most of us coin lovers would like to see them preserved in some way. Even put up for auction which would recoup (for us tax payers) some significant part of the cost of making and trying the case. I will point out that selling seized property is common place. Not sure if that can apply here. </p><p>I don&#039;t know the particulars of the people who had the coins and what their motive was in letting the gov see them (authenticate them) but if their intent was not criminal (unlike the family member who stole them) and they were in fact trying to do the right thing in handing them over to the gov, I would let them bid at auction too, along with all the rest of us. Perhaps then they could have a fair shot an owning them legally and all the coin collectors who are secretly (or not so secretly) wishing they could have one, could have their shot too.</p><p>Not asking a binding legal opinion or a position statement from the gov, but do you think there is a chance that there could be a legal bridge that could reach the shore of not melting them? What are some of the things the gov will have to consider re the outcome of these coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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