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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2067139, member: 66&quot;]The vast majority WAS melted.&nbsp; What exists today is just a small portion of what was issued in all the years before 1933.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No $100 total if it wasn&#039;t part of a &quot;collection&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sec 2(b) was not in the original draft of the executive order</p><p><br /></p><p>(b) Gold coin and gold certificates in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100 belonging to any one person; and gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors of rare and unusual coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later additions to the order defined any US coin issued before April 5th and being &quot;rare or unusual&quot;, but not until a lot of coins had been turned in.&nbsp; Another edit restricted quarter eagles to no more than four coins of any given date and mint.&nbsp; Other denominations you could keep an unlimited number as &quot;rare and unusual&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While he DID have a collection it was just a group of mixed coins given to him.&nbsp; He was NOT a coin collector, he was a stamp collector.&nbsp; But his good friend and Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin WAS a coin collector, and a collector of gold coins!&nbsp; It was through Woodin&#039;s influence that Sec 2(b) was added to the order.</p><p><br /></p><p>One reason for the order was that people were shipping large amounts of gold overseas for year before the the order was put in place.&nbsp; And that is also the reason why so much exists today.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You will find a lot of those propagandists pushing pre-1933 gold withthe argument that government can&#039;t confiscate collectible gold but they can bullion.&nbsp; What they ignore is that if any recall order was made today it would be covered by whatever is written into the new order and they wouldn&#039;t be bound by what was in the order in 1933.&nbsp; So they could order the pre-1933 gold turned in as well.&nbsp; (I do not believe they will do any such order though as there is no real purpose to do so as there was in 1933.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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