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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 2701242, member: 86305&quot;]The gold was recalled at something like $32 an ounce and as soon as that was done I believe they changed the valuation ratio on the dollar so that the currency was devalued by around 10%, but I am going on memory.&nbsp; And then you could declare some gold coins as collectible and keep them, but those declaration rules escape me.&nbsp; So if you were just a common guy and played by the rules, turned in your gold to help old Uncle Sam, then Uncle Sam was the winner.&nbsp; Fortunately for collectors a lot of people did not play by the rules and kept their gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then good old FDR was a stamp collector.&nbsp; He had the postmaster create stamps just for him and some of his buddies that he planned to autograph and sell years later.&nbsp; He gave them out to friends and family.&nbsp; Congress caught him and had the postmaster print millions of them to devalue what he was doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Died in Warm Springs, Georgia with his girlfriend.&nbsp; Unfortunately some things just don&#039;t change.&nbsp; My parents thought he hung the moon and saved us all.&nbsp; I see him as an elitist crook.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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