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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 692955, member: 3011&quot;]I once asked my grandfather about how the gold confiscation affected him.&nbsp; He said it didn&#039;t affect him at all because he never owned a gold coin in his life.&nbsp; Two other things to keep in mind are that [1] nobody went door to door confiscating gold.&nbsp; The government made banks turn over any gold coins they held and any that were deposited and demonitized the rest.&nbsp; And [2] there was an exemption of five $20 gold pieces per family member.&nbsp; So a family of four could keep $400 in face value of gold, which was a substantial amount of money back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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