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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4617067, member: 73489&quot;]Except it wasn&#039;t stolen, the government never was missing 10 ounces of gold.&nbsp; It was clearly exchanged.</p><p><br /></p><p>They WERE missing 250 1928 Double Eagles....but they didn&#039;t expend 1/10th the effort to track down an entire bag of missing Saints.&nbsp; Most of their efforts went into passing legislation to get the Mint Superintendent off the hook for personal liability for the missing $5,000 in gold coins -- he WAS innocent, he signed that the books were in order upon assuming command, but there was an inherited shortfall.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not his fault, but instructive how they treated one of their own (Dressel) and Switt (confiscated 78 coins he had when his gold license lapsed).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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