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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2484388, member: 80121&quot;]I&#039;m coming into this thread late, but from what I understand a final judgment was made that went against the Langborg Family. I&#039;ve always looked at this case as not so much the 10 the Langborg family turned over to the Treasury Department for verification (not the best move to make), but what the government decided to do with the Siam specimen. The decision, briefly, was to auction off the coin and split the proceeds with the person who possessed the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not an attorney and do not pretend to know or understand the laws that caused this final decision, but I do understand precedence. I feel that the Siam coin set a precedence that has been ignored and that is not fair.</p><p><br /></p><p>I live in New Mexico where it is very common to give light sentences or just probation to people in government who break the law. As a result most people look at local, county and state government with a very weary eye here. I am not going to go off of the topic by listing the government people, both elected or appointed who have broken the law and gotten ridiculously low or non existent punishment, but because of this people who live here tend to favor the little guy in a dispute with government. Right now we have the Senate majority leader being accused of kickbacks in a government building project and no judge will hear the cage. I believe at last count six judges have recused themselves from hearing the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure New Mexico is not the only state that has corruption in government (boy I&#039;ll bet Homeland Security is having fits over this post) so that might explain why the average person tends to question any decision that comes out with the government prevailing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have any of you had to deal with the IRS lately? There was a minor mistake on my 2013 tax return and it took the IRS until June of 2015 to send me a letter telling me of my problem. It just seems, IMHO, that there is one set of rules for your average citizen and another if you are a government employee.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was I rooting for the Langborgs? Yes, in a sense, the fact that they sent the 10 coins to the Treasury shows that they weren&#039;t trying to hide anything. Did I think they should get to keep the coins? I don&#039;t really know, but I do know they should have received some king of compensation, even if it was just the bullion value of the coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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