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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1184209, member: 22143&quot;]In the United States putting a trivial legal tender amount on the coin, puts the coin in a nebulous legal state that prevents people from using these US issued gold and silver coins in any transactions.&nbsp; They want to keep you on the Federal Reserve (fiat) Dollar.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For example we have this:</p><ul> <li>If you take a $250 silver ATB coin to the IRS to pay your taxes, they will gladly take it and credit you with $0.25.</li> <li>If you take a $1500 gold Eagle to a Federal Reserve bank and deposit it, they will credit your account $50.&nbsp; </li> <li>However if you receive one of these coins as a payment, the IRS will consider that you got paid $250 for the purposes of taxation. (whatever the real value of the coin)</li> <li>They originally placed legal tender status on the American Silver and Gold Eagles back in 1986 for this reason.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This little distinction makes these coins useless for any kind of real transactions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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