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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 734454, member: 66&quot;]This fits what I recall as well.&nbsp; Back in the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s it was seemingly &quot;understood&quot; in the hobby that Swit had oiginally had 25 coins.&nbsp; When the investigations began in 1944 and Swit was named as the source of the 33 double eagles he admitted to the Feds that he had sold nine coins and who he had sold them to.&nbsp; The Feds went about rounding them up and in due time announced that they had now accounted for all nine of the 1933 double eagles and tht all of the coins were accounted for.&nbsp; (Of course they had said that back in the mid 1930&#039;s when they melted ALL of them down as well.)&nbsp; They had recovered eight coins and Farouk had the ninth and last piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then Eliasberg asked if that meant he could keep his.&nbsp; No he couldn&#039;t and the Feds confiscated it announcing that they had now accounted for all ten of the nine coins.&nbsp; (Keep score boys and girls, this means they have now &quot;accounted&quot; for more coins than were struck).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the 10 Langbord coins turned up, and in the creation of the two recent books on the subject a 1980 dated photo of one turned up as well.&nbsp; The coin in the photo is not one of the two in the Smithsonian, it is not one of the ten Langbord coins, and it is not the Fenton/Farouk coin.&nbsp; It can&#039;t be one of the other nine confiscated pieces because they were all destroyed before 1980.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that is nine destroyed, the Fenton/Farouk coin, the ten Langbord coins, and one photograph.&nbsp; That accounts for 21 coins.&nbsp; If the speculation from the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s is correct that means there could be four more of them still out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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