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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2041410, member: 66&quot;]Yes they were asked to return them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Normally the Secretary makes the final decision on designs, but it is still a good idea to run them by the Congress (Keeps them from getting their panties in a wad).&nbsp; But for a composition change typically they DO have to have Congressional approval.&nbsp; So you show them patterns so they can see what the new coin/composition will look like.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was the case with the Sac mules.&nbsp; Mint employees were convicted of having produced them and smuggled them out of the mint.&nbsp; the government declared them to be government property.&nbsp; They did allow the one or two pieces that were recovered from circulation to be retained but they requested the return of the rest of the known specimens.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if the collector who had managed to acquire most of the known specimens ever surrendered them or not (He had/has I believe 10 of the 12 known pieces).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There isn&#039;t as long as you surrender anything they maintain is stolen government property.&nbsp; Refuse and you can/will be charged with being in possession of stolen property.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s because if it was stolen it wasn&#039;t stolen from the Mint.&nbsp; All different dates, if stolen they must have come from some accumulation after they left the mint and had mixed with other coins.&nbsp; And there has been no real evidence that the coins came from a theft.[/quote][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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