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The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933


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#1 Rogerdodger

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Posted 15 November 2008 - 01:25 PM

I have often recommended buying gold in the form of wearable scrap jewelry at scrap metal prices.
I have scored some killer deals in the past.
IF gold "Hoarding" is banned again, probably jewelry would be exempt.
But what would gold be worth if was suddenly illegal to own it?

http://www.knology.n...scation1933.htm
The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933

From: President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To: The United States Congress
Dated: 5 April, 1933
Presidential Executive Order 6102

Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5( B) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, entitled

An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists,

I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section to do hereby prohibit the hoarding gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of the order:

Section 1. For the purpose of this regulation, the term 'hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade. The term "person" means any individual, partnership, association or corporation.

Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following:

(a) Such amount of gold as may be required for legitimate and customary use in industry, profession or art within a reasonable time, including gold prior to refining and stocks of gold in reasonable amounts for the usual trade requirements of owners mining and refining such gold.

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#2 Rogerdodger

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Posted 15 November 2008 - 01:27 PM

Prison for Gold Hoarders Edition of NY Times, March, 1933

#3 HOLYGRAIL

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Posted 15 November 2008 - 02:36 PM

"Prison for gold hoarders" How about Probation for us first time offenders? HOLYGRAIL

#4 Islander

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Posted 17 November 2008 - 02:59 PM

What is point of papering the board with scuttlebutt and cocktail party tales? FDR also, by executive order, invoked 99% tax rates on incomes over 25,000 dollars, and other onerous measures, in pursuit of an economic recovery. The gold ban and the confiscatory tax levels are now recognized as generally ineffective, and as major contributors to the delayed recovery from the depression. A stupid politician might do such things again, but most people who hold gold have already taken counters which are legal and do not involve wearable gold. Best, Islander