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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2484542, member: 12789&quot;]Inasmuch as this thread has taken an unfortunate political bend, I only hope that the coins will be preserved.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, Izzy Switt was obviously even less than shady in his dealings, all the while assisted by a corrupt mint employee who had the fortune of not being found out beyond a reasonable doubt withing his lifetime.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the family came forward with the coins, I believe it was more for personal gain - greed and the hopes of somehow 80+ years after their less than savory departure from the mint, that they would somehow find that time had erased the crime of their predecessor so that the coins could have mystically been legal to sell at a usurious profit.&nbsp; There are times whence one is perhaps better to keep mum about such matters and quietly stash something away.&nbsp; Now the Langbord family is less the coins, and more importantly less the egregious and untoward legal fees.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is whispering of an appeal to the SCOTUS - but I cannot imagine a precedent which would permit the court even hearing this case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then another thought, what if in some wild thought, the US mint decided to recover the 1913 Liberty nickels - made illegally by an employee in the mint and illegally removed and quietly hidden until the 1920s?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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