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

For this reason, a case regarding the ownership of the double eagle coin broke out in the United States, and the US government ultimately won the case.

In 2003, Joan Braun Sweet and her two sons who lived in Philadelphia found ten "Double Eagle" coins in a safe deposit box of Joan Braun's father Israel Sweet at Wachovia Bank. The family was overjoyed at the time. 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 Brown immediately sought help from experts at the United States Mint to identify the ten double eagle coins. Although the results of the identification confirmed that these ten double eagle coins were the ones that slipped through the net that year, these ten double eagle coins were directly confiscated by the U.S. government, and the answer given by the U.S. government was quite impressive - these ten double eagle coins do not belong to you!

How can such an accusation be tolerated? The most important thing is that these are double eagle coins worth more than 70 million US dollars. Why can the US government deduct them just like that? No, I have to deal with the government!

So the old lady and her family filed a lawsuit against the United States Mint in Philadelphia, demanding that either the Mint return the ten double eagle coins to them, or they would have to pay them $40 million.

Of course, the US government would not agree to this, so it sent a powerful team of lawyers to fight this lawsuit.

Joel Sweet, a U.S. government lawyer, pointed out that "your family (Joan Braun) never legally owned these ten double eagle coins, so how could they be withheld?"

The evidence Joel presented was very sufficient, with two main points proving that Joan Brown and her family had never legally owned the ten double eagle coins.

The first piece of evidence is that the person who deposited the gold coins in the safe deposit box at Wachovia Bank was not Joan Brown's father Sweet, because when Wachovia Bank rented out the safe deposit box in 1996, Sweet had been dead for six years. How could he have stored these ten double eagle coins in the bank safe?

Moreover, after Sweet's will came into effect, his family did not include the gold coins in the estate or pay inheritance tax for them. What basis do you, an old lady, have to say that this is the legacy your father left you?

This one piece of evidence alone was enough to refute the old lady's family and leave them speechless.

Joel then presented a second piece of evidence, which came from the repealed Gold Savings Act.

When this decree was promulgated, the United States was still on the gold standard, so there was absolutely no problem with this decree. However, when the double eagle was minted, the Gold Reserves Act was still in effect. In addition, the double eagle was not put on the market for circulation, so it was illegal for private individuals to hold this kind of gold coin.

In other words, even if these ten double eagle coins are the inheritance left to you by your grandfather, your grandfather was breaking the law when he obtained these ten double eagle coins, so these ten double eagle coins are "stolen goods"!

These two extremely powerful pieces of evidence made Joan Brown and her family lose the lawsuit, and the US government took back the ten double eagle coins in broad daylight. It is said that the ten double eagle coins are still kept in the underground vault of Fort Knox in Kentucky.

In fact, this case can also explain an important reason why the double eagle is so precious. You should know that although the double eagles that were destroyed accounted for the vast majority, a small number of them were still circulated. Although Roosevelt later used agents to recover the double eagles that were circulated, there were still a very small number left.

Yang Jing was helpless about what happened to Joan Brown's family, but what should he do with the two double eagle coins in his hand?

In fact, Yang Jing had been thinking about this matter since he discovered these two double eagle coins.

Considering the status of the DuPont family at the time, it is very likely that the two double eagle coins were presented to Alfred by Roosevelt, because the two double eagle coins were not taken back by Roosevelt, which means that Roosevelt knew about it.

But the problem is that these things are all my own speculations. If it cannot be proved that these two double eagle coins were indeed given by Roosevelt to the DuPont family, then these two double eagle coins can be regarded as stolen goods.

This is really a distressing thing...