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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4635719, member: 66&quot;]It wasn&#039;t a political favor, it was just business as usual.&nbsp; An export license was requested and it was granted as standard operating procedure.&nbsp; The license was granted before they began paying any attention to the 1933 double eagles and they weren&#039;t considered to be &quot;stolen&quot; coins at the time.&nbsp; Later at the time of the 1954 sale of the palace collection the US Government DID ask the Egyptian government for the return of the coin.&nbsp; The Egyptian government declined, and the US government let it be known that if the coin was purchased and the buyer tried to bring it back to the US it would be confiscated.&nbsp; So it was withdrawn from the sale and disappeared until the Fenton coin showed up claiming to be the Farouk coin. (There is no proof that it was the Farouk coin and at least one of the people who was at the sale and who saw the coin said it wasn&#039;t the Farouk coin.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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