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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sundance79, post: 2828732, member: 84413&quot;]Wow - very interesting views and what &quot;We the People...&quot; really means. The government consists of our elected representatives who pass laws on our behalf and then hire people to enforce, administer and so forth on our behalf.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, like the 1933 gold double eagle, the government (or We the People) own the national parks and the gov&#039;t takes care of them on our behalf. While the parks belong to the people, you can&#039;t build your home on &#039;your&#039; land. Just like that 1933 gold double eagle or the 1974 D aluminum cent, you can&#039;t pick it up and drop it into your collection just because it belongs to the &#039;people.&#039; Like the national parks, the government becomes the caretaker for those items on our behalf. And rather than lock them away in a vault, as a collector might do, they put them on display so that &quot;We the People&quot; the real owners, can enjoy them from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just try to imagine 250 million people trying to lay claim to a single item, or if we all wanted a summer cabin in Yellowstone. And if the gov&#039;t did put some of the the rare coins mentioned here up for auction, the money would just disappear into the general fund while the coin(s) would disappear in to the vault of some collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>So as far as I&#039;m concerned, &quot;We the People&quot; can/should keep them so from time to time I can go and visit/see/enjoy some of our coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it makes you feel any better add a 1933 gold double eagle and a 1974 D aluminum cent to the list of coins in your collection, since after all we are all part owners to such coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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