The REAL Story of the Langbord 1933’s

Why destroy them? They are historical and in the proper hands: the government’s. And the government should let the rest of us get a look.

 

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Hope he was working on contingency. 40 percent of nothing. That’s a good fee for an attorney who cut class the day they talked about possession of stolen property.

 

Doesn't offend me - it doesn't affect me. It's not really about coins, it's about thieves & the government (I know, that may be redundant), and it is what it is.

I find it useless & a waste of energy to be that concerned over something we cannot influence & which resolve itself (probably to no ones total satisfaction).

That's only my feelings on the subject, & like my wife is so fond of exclaiming "Don't tell me how to feel." As I've aged, I have developed a much better distinction between what's important & what I can let go:

"my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect.........
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." - My Back Pages, apologies to Bob Dylan.

 

Not the government, Izzy Switt.

 

Okay, but please feel assured that the whole case WAS resolved to MY total satisfaction. The Langbord family lost and Midge Rendell (original 3rd circuit decision) revealed herself to be the legal lightweight she always has been.

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I challenge ANYBODY here to imagine themselves in the position of the Mint, and tell me they'd act any differently. A couple of generations ago you feel you were robbed, and you're the only people who the thieves' family trusts to authenticate your stolen goods. They send it to you to authenticate it, and then THEY EXPECT YOU TO SEND IT BACK TO THEM!!!! What kind of idiot would do that???

Stealing from an ongoing entity is even stupider than stealing from an ephemeral human person.

 

When this all started, I wanted the family to win. The more I learned, I changed my opinion. Now I just hope that folks will be able to see the coins.

 

I have seen 4 total, and by the time I assume ambient temperature, I fully expect to see at least 13. The nicest one I've seen is the Farouk specimen.

 

You must've missed the winky.

 

And what sort of label is deserved by he who might make up fanciful stories about how a known crook might have "legally" (air quotes again) obtained them? Gimme a "B", gimme a "U", gimme an "R", gimme a "D"...

 

Excellent Kurt! And I agree, the result is satisfying. And it may be a great case study for a law student. And I understand peoples interest in it just because it is/was a compelling event....

....however, I'm still not interested in seeing those coins or hearing about it further (although I now expect multiple dissections, of a story essentially about criminal activity, from renown publications, in lieu of other numismatic matters).

So, we're good!

 

Yes, true. This is the gift that keeps on giving.

 

On THIS issue? Particularly difficult, don't you think? Nearly EVERY commentary on the Langbord case rather DIRECTLY flows from, or immediately veers into, politics.

 

Okay. Now... let's see that applied universally, okay? That's my repeated complaint: lack of consistency in application.

 

Ah well then there’s the rub, isn’t it? Some people whine at the drop of a hat, and others don’t. Some people are scrutinized more than others sua sponte by mods without needing a report. To use your word, "awareness" is not evenly distributed.

Now, could I make an effort to be more "outgoing" in reporting things to mods? Yes, I suppose I could, but in my estimation, that would make me part of the problem.

 

Kurt , you will never be happy until you are on an "everything goes" forum. I keep mentioning the alternate one, partisanlines.com, but they will scream back at you there, so you stay here, which is fine. It is interesting you think you are so interesting, that I can't turn on the computer without saying , I had better check Kurt before I read the rest. Dream on. I read the reported first, and yes you are occasionally on there, but otherwise you have to wait until I get to a thread that you have posted on. Sometimes I agree with your political rants, and sometimes not, but neither are allowed. You are also unaware of the number of reports from others, that I and others deny due to not crossing the line yet. They probably think you are getting a sweetheart deal from the moderators. Your buddy Jim