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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 12668, member: 1113&quot;]I do believe you&#039;re right, and I was disgusted with the way the &#039;33 Saint legal battle ended up.&nbsp; The government extorted out a cut of the action, and the plaintiff received a &quot;legally unique&quot; status for the coin (thus making even half the auction value likely more than ALL of the value had the government lost its case in the courts and the &#039;33 Saints were freed).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s disappointing because I believe the plaintiffs had a very strong case to beat the government&#039;s claim and in so doing, eliminating the &quot;contraband&quot; status for the coin.&nbsp; Circumstantially, they could have added that the government hasn&#039;t tried to seize other &quot;unauthorized&quot; pieces (such as the 1913 Liberty nickel), and in so doing, isn&#039;t consistently enforcing the law (which sometimes causes courts to dismiss those selective enforcements).</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, of course, it was all about the Benjamins, both from the government and the plaintiff.&nbsp; Film at 11; there&#039;s some real shocking stuff there.&nbsp; Both parties in that legal battle won; the hobby and the numismatic community lost big.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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