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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 60944, member: 708&quot;]You know for a country based supposedly on freedom and tolerance, your government is a complete control freak. (Our&#039;s is trying to be one).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gold was never confiscated by our government, we left the gold standard twice once in 1914 and the last time in 1932. Gold coins remained legal tender (they still are) but paper money was now non-exchangable for gold. There was no demands that everyone hand in their gold though. I seriously doubt the British government even dared to demand it because they knew they&#039;d look stupid if they did because we wouldn&#039;t hand it in, we&#039;d just hide it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same with escaped rarities from the mint that were stolen or smuggled out. They are now in the hands of rich collectors, auction houses have had them too. The mint at the time wasn&#039;t bothered it was one less to melt down and therefore it saved them money, or maybe they didn&#039;t notice or really just didn&#039;t care... hence why Edward VIII coins survive today albeit in single figures. And we&#039;ve never really been a big one on the idea of &#039;freedom&#039; or &#039;liberty&#039;, we are afterall subjects of her Majesty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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