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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 61018, member: 708&quot;]But as far as i am aware we didn&#039;t have the gold confiscated. Couldn&#039;t the US Government have just axed any ties between gold and paper money and just left the gold be?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know one reason for coming off the gold standard was because foreign governments were getting the US Government to exchange the dollars they held for gold. But then again the British government had been forced to ship over millions of gold soveeigns to pay off their war debt to the US so it went both ways. Most of which were 1917 London mint sovereign which the US government then melted down, making that coin a problem one for the collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>Couldn&#039;t the government have done what it did in 1968 with the silver Certificates. Left the silver out there but just refused to hand it out anymore?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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