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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1471575, member: 37498&quot;]Would this law apply to bullion coins too?</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO - If you want to preserve history, then buy what you want to preserve.</p><p><br /></p><p>We just happen to have an interest in coins, so many of us hate to see them melted down.&nbsp; Not that we really need more laws, but if congress does this for coins, what&#039;s to stop them from doing the same for virtually everything else?&nbsp; All buildings are a part of history.&nbsp; So are cars, computers, clothes, comics, stamps, toys, bodies, and well, everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a process to protect a historical building: Have it declared a historical building.&nbsp; Then it becomes much more difficult to destroy.&nbsp; Maybe we could make a similiar process for coins.&nbsp; If you have a coin that you want preserved for eternity, then have it slabbed in a special historical slab.&nbsp; But, seeing as coins are much different than structures, what would stop a person from breaking the coin out of the slab?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I think economics is doing a good job at preserving the best specimens of history.&nbsp; For the most part, the only coins that are in danger of being melted down are those that are only worth their bullion value.&nbsp; If society placed a higher value on these coins, then they would be worth more than their melt value.&nbsp; In a way, the people are already voting on it, with their dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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