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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 653

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:32:21 PM


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The piggy bank was found in the drawer of the desk. At that time, Yang Jing opened the drawer to see if there was anything left in the drawer. As a result, in addition to some handwritten materials, there was a palm sized piggy bank in the deepest part of the drawer.

The piggy bank is made of porcelain, and the style is also a very simple Huaxia Fuwa shape. Although there are many piggy banks with this shape in China, they are rare in the United States on the other side of the Pacific, especially in the United States more than 100 years ago. Obviously, this piggy bank should have been bought by Alfred a long time ago, even a gift Alfred received when he was a child for Christmas.

Anyway, this piggy bank should have a certain position in Alfred's youth, otherwise such a piggy bank would not appear in the drawer of his desk.

He picked up the piggy bank and shook it. Yang Jing found that there were many coins in the piggy bank.

This kind of old-fashioned piggy bank is a kind of "piggy bank", which can only be put in but not out. If you want to take out the coins in the piggy bank, there is no way to carry them out except breaking the piggy bank.

However, although this piggy bank has a history of at least 100 years, it is not a precious porcelain, and this piggy bank may be a very important thing for Alfred who has died for a long time, but for Yang Jing, breaking this piggy bank has no psychological burden.

So Yang Jing smashed the piggy bank with a small hammer. Not to mention, there are really good things in it.

There are about 50 coins of different sizes in this piggy bank, most of which are silver coins, as well as some gold and copper coins.

Among the early coins issued in the United States, the larger denominations were mostly gold and silver, and the lower denominations were mostly copper. Unlike modern coins, most of them are made of alloy.

If the piggy bank really belonged to Alfred, it would not be surprising that gold and silver coins appeared in the piggy bank in his time.

At present, the gold and silver coins issued in the early United States have high collection value, so although these gold and silver coins are small in quantity, their value is not low.

After carefully distinguishing these gold and silver coins, Yang Jing found two unusual gold coins.

These two gold coins are of high denomination - twenty dollars. On the obverse is an image of a statue of liberty holding a torch and an olive branch, and on the north is an image of an eagle flying all the time.

The face value of $20, plus these two images, immediately made Yang Jing realize that he seemed to have picked up another big leak inadvertently!

If the magazines, books and even teak furniture found in front were a small leak, the two golden gold coins suddenly appeared is definitely a super leak!

This big leak is so big that you don't have to spend money to buy this manor, and there is a lot of surplus!

There is no other reason, because these two gold coins are actually the legendary "Double Eagle Coins".

In the years when the United States implemented the gold standard, it once issued a gold coin with a face value of ten dollars. On the front of this gold coin is a goddess of liberty holding a torch and an olive branch, and on the back is a flying eagle. This ten dollar gold coin is called "Eagle coin" by the United States.

In 1933, the United States issued another coin with a face value of $20. Because the pattern of the coin was the same as that of the Eagle Coin, but the face value doubled. Therefore, in order to distinguish, this eagle coin was called "Double Eagle Coin" by Americans.

This "Double Eagle Coin" was cast in 1933. At that time, 500000 pieces were cast, which is not rare. However, shortly after the casting, Roosevelt implemented the new deal and ordered the abolition of the gold standard, so he also had to stop using gold coins. As a result, more than 445000 "Double Eagle Coins" that had just been cast were finally returned to the furnace in 1937 to be cast into gold bars, and the molds for casting gold coins were also destroyed.

Therefore, this batch of 1933 "Double Eagle Coins" became the last batch of gold coins in the United States. Only a few "Double Eagle Coins" survived among the people, so they are particularly precious and are known as "Mona Lisa in coins".

This kind of gold coin is extremely precious. In 2002, a "Double Eagle Coin" sold at a sky high price of US $7.59 million, setting the highest auction record for a single currency. It is also the most valuable coin in today's coin collection industry, ranking first in the world coin collection list.

Rare things are precious. This old Chinese saying is also reflected incisively and vividly in the double eagle coin.

Because this batch of gold coins was recovered by Roosevelt through administrative means, strictly speaking, this batch of gold coins belongs to the currency that is not in circulation. It is said that Roosevelt even sent agents and the national security department to recover some double eagle coins that have been circulating in the market at that time. Moreover, the United States publicly announced at that time that this batch of gold coins should not be retained in the world. Even those retained in the world belong to the property of the United States government.

In later generations, only a dozen Twin Eagle Coins that were not destroyed remained, of which only one gold coin was collected by a private collector. The collector was able to collect this Twin Eagle Coin publicly because of the problems left over by history. Other surviving twin Eagle Coins, or collectors did not dare to publicize it publicly, Or it has long been recycled by the U.S. government.

The reason why the U.S. government is so tough on so many gold coins is mainly because the U.S. gold savings act prohibited private ownership of illiquid gold currency. Although this act was repealed in 1974, the Double Eagle Coin appeared before the repeal of this act. Therefore, if private ownership of this gold currency, It is illegal income at all. Shuangying coin itself is a kind of currency that has not really been listed and circulated. Therefore, if it is privately held, it is illegal.

In other words, if anyone holds this currency, he is actually holding "stolen goods".

Therefore, a case about the ownership of Double Eagle Coins broke out in the United States, which finally ended in the victory of the U.S. government.

Joan Bolang swift, who lives in Philadelphia, and her two sons found ten "Double Eagle Coins" in a safe deposit box of Wachovia bank in 2003. At that time, the family was very happy. After all, according to the auction price in 2001, the value of these ten Double Eagle Coins was as high as more than 70 million US dollars.

Joan Bolang immediately found the experts of the American mint to help identify the ten Double Eagle Coins. Although the identification results can confirm that the ten double eagle coins were the fish that escaped the net in those years, the ten double eagle coins were directly deducted by the U.S. government, and the answer given by the U.S. government is quite powerful - the ten Double Eagle Coins don't belong to you!

How good is such a accusation? The most important thing is that this is a double eagle coin worth more than $70 million. Why do you think the U.S. government can deduct it? No, old lady, I have to talk to the government!

So the old lady and her family filed a lawsuit against the American Mint in Philadelphia. Either your mint will return my ten Double Eagle Coins, or you will have to pay me $40 million.

Of course, the US government could not agree, so it sent a strong team of lawyers to fight the lawsuit.

Joel sweet, a US government lawyer, pointed out pointedly that "your family (Joan Bolang) has never legally owned these ten Double Eagle Coins, so why did you detain them?"

Joel's evidence is very sufficient. There are two main points to prove that Joan Bolang's family never legally owned the ten Double Eagle Coins.

The first evidence is that the person who deposited the gold coins in the safe of Wachovia bank was not Joan Bolang's father, svette, because it had been six years since svette died when Wachovia bank rented the safe in 1996. How could it be possible to deposit the ten Double Eagle Coins in the bank safe?

Moreover, after the effective date of svette's will, his family did not include the gold coins in the inheritance list or pay inheritance tax for it. Why do you say that this is the legacy left by your father?

Just this evidence has nothing to say to refute the old lady's family.

Later, Joel presented a second evidence, which came from the repealed gold Savings Act.

When this law was promulgated, the United States still implemented the gold standard, so this law was absolutely no problem. When the double eagle coin was minted, the gold Savings Act was still in force. In addition, the double eagle coin was not listed and circulated, so it was illegal for private people to hold this kind of gold coin.

In other words, even if the ten double eagle coins are your father's legacy, your father is illegal when he gets the ten Double Eagle Coins, so the ten Double Eagle Coins belong to "stolen goods"!

These two extremely powerful evidences defeated the Joan Bolang family, and the U.S. government took back the ten Double Eagle Coins in a fair manner. It is said that the ten double eagle coins are still kept in the underground vault of Fort Knox, Kentucky.

In fact, this case can also explain an important reason why the double eagle coin is so precious. You should know that although the destroyed Double Eagle Coins accounted for the vast majority, a small part of them still spread. Later, although Roosevelt used special agents to recover the circulating double eagle coins, there was still a small part left.

What happened to Joan Bolang's family, Yang Jing was helpless, but how to deal with the two Double Eagle Coins in her hand?

In fact, since the discovery of the two double eagle coins, Yang Jing has been thinking about it.

In terms of the status of the DuPont family at that time, the two Eagle coins were most likely given to Alfred by Roosevelt, because the two Eagle coins were not recovered by Roosevelt, which means Roosevelt knew about it.

But the problem is that these things are their own guesses. If it can not be proved that the two Eagle coins were indeed given by Roosevelt to the DuPont family, then the two Eagle Coins are supposedly stolen goods.

This is really a distressing thing





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