This piggy bank was found in the drawer of that desk. At that time, Yang Jing opened the drawer to see if there was anything left in the drawer. It turned out that besides some handwritten information, it was in the drawer. There is even a palm-sized piggy bank in the deepest part.

　　 The piggy bank is made of porcelain, and the style is also very simple and simple Huaxia Fuwa. Although there are many piggy banks of 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, or even a gift that Alfred received during Christmas as a child.

　　 Anyway, this piggy bank should have a certain status when Alfred was a teenager, otherwise such a piggy bank would not appear in the desk drawer.

　　 picked up the piggy bank and shook it, Yang Jing found that there were still a lot of coins in the piggy bank.

　　 This kind of old-fashioned piggy bank belongs to "Pixiu", which can only be entered but not out. If you want to take out the coins in the piggy bank, there is no way to memorize it except to break the piggy bank.

Although this piggy bank has at least a hundred years of history, it is not a precious porcelain, and this piggy bank may be a very important thing for Alfred, who has passed away for a long time. For Yang Jing, there is no psychological burden to break this piggy bank.

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

　　 There are about fifty coins of various sizes in this piggy bank, mostly silver coins, but also some gold and copper coins.

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

　　 If this piggy bank really belonged to Alfred, then it would be no surprise that gold and silver coins appeared in the piggy bank at that time in his life.

　　 Now the gold and silver coins issued in the early days of the United States have a high collection value, so although the number of these gold and silver coins is not large, the value is actually not low.

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

　　 These two gold coins are high-value gold coins-twenty dollars in face value. On the front of the gold coin is an image of the Statue of Liberty holding a torch and an olive branch, and on the north is an image of an eagle that has been flying.

　　 The face value of twenty dollars, coupled with these two images, immediately made Yang Jing realize that he seemed to have accidentally picked up another big leak!

　　 If the magazines, books and even the teak furniture found earlier are a small leak, then the two golden coins that suddenly appeared are definitely a super leak!

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

　　 There is no other reason, because these two gold coins turned out to be the legendary "Double Eagle Coins".

In the era when the United States implemented the gold standard, a gold coin with a face value of ten dollars was once issued. This gold coin had a statue of Liberty holding a torch and an olive branch on the front, and a flying eagle on the back. This ten-dollar gold coin was Americans call it "Eagle Coin."

In 1933, the United States issued a coin with a face value of twenty dollars. Because the pattern of the coin is the same as that of the eagle coin, but the face value has doubled. Therefore, in order to distinguish it, this eagle coin was used by the United States. It is called "Double Eagle Coin".

　　 This "double eagle coin" was forged in 1933. At that time, a total of 500,000 coins were minted, which is not rare. But soon 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 4.45 million of the "Double Eagle Coins" that had just been minted not long ago were finally cast back into gold bars in 1937, and the molds used to cast the gold coins were also destroyed.

　　 Therefore, these 1933 editions of the "Double Eagle Coins" became the last batch of gold coins in the United States. Only a few "Double Eagle Coins" survived the folks, so they are extremely precious and are known as the "Mona Lisa of Coins."

This kind of gold coin is extremely precious. In 2002, a "Double Eagle Coin" was sold for 7.59 million US dollars, setting a record for the highest auction of a single currency. It is also the most valuable coin in the current coin collection industry, ranking top in the world. The top of the list.

　　 Things are rare and expensive. This old Chinese saying is also vividly reflected in Double Eagle Coins.

Because these gold coins were recovered by Roosevelt through administrative means, in a strict sense, these gold coins belonged to uncirculated currency. It is said that Roosevelt even dispatched to recover some of the Double Eagle coins that were already in circulation on the market at that time. Secret agents and national security services. Moreover, the United States publicly announced at the time that these gold coins should not be left in the world, even if they are left in the world, they belong to the US government.

In later generations, there are only a dozen Double Eagle coins that were not destroyed that year. Among them, only one gold coin was collected by a private collector. The reason why this collector was able to publicly collect this Double Eagle coin was also because of the legacy of history. The problems that have been preserved, the other surviving Double Eagle coins, are either collectors who dare not publicly publicize it, or they have long been recycled by the U.S. government.

The reason why the U.S. government is so tough on such a dozen gold coins is mainly because the U.S. "Gold Savings Act" prohibited private ownership of uncirculated gold currency. Although this bill was abolished in 1974, both Eagle coins appeared before this bill was repealed. Therefore, if the gold currency is held privately, it will be illegally obtained. Double Eagle coins are a currency that has never been listed and circulated at all. Therefore, if privately held, It is illegal.

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

　　 For this reason, there has also been a case concerning the ownership of Double Eagle coins in the United States, which ultimately ended in the victory of the US government.

Joan Braunthwaite, who lives in Philadelphia, and her two sons. In 2003, Joan Braunthwaite’s father Israelswaite found ten "Double Eagle Coins" in a safe in Wachovia Bank. This family is so happy. After all, if calculated according to the auction price in 2001, the value of these ten Double Eagle coins is as high as more than 70 million U.S. dollars.

Joan Braun immediately found experts from the United States Mint to help identify these ten double eagle coins. However, although the results of the identification can confirm that these ten double eagle coins were the fish that slipped through the net of the year, these ten double eagle coins were by the United States. The government directly deducted it, and the answer given by the U.S. government is quite imposing-these ten double eagle coins are not yours!

　　 Such an accusation is enough? The most important thing is that this is a Double Eagle coin worth more than 70 million U.S. dollars. Why does the US government deduct it? No, old lady, I have to have a relationship with the government!

　　 So the old lady and her family filed a lawsuit against the American Mint in Philadelphia, or you would have to pay me 40 million U.S. dollars.

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

br/>　　U.S. government attorney Joel Witt pointed out sharply, "Your family (Joan Braun) has never legally owned these ten Double Eagle coins. Why did you detain this?"

　　 The evidence presented by Joel is very sufficient. There are two main points to prove that the Jongbolang family has never legally owned these ten Double Eagle coins.

The first evidence is that the person who kept the gold coins in the safe of Midland Bank was not Joan Braun’s father Svet, because Svet had passed away for six years when the safe was leased by Midland Bank in 1996. How could it be possible to put these ten pairs of coins? Deposit the Eagle Coin in the bank safe?

　　 Moreover, after Sweet’s will came into effect, his family did not include the gold coins in the estate list or pay the estate tax for him. Why do you say you, the old lady, say this is the relic left to you by your father?

　　 is just this evidence, and there is nothing to refute the old lady's family.

　　 Afterwards, Joel showed a second piece of evidence, which was derived from the "Gold Savings Act" that has been repealed.

When this decree was promulgated that year, the United States still implemented the gold standard, so this decree is absolutely no problem, and the "Gold Savings Act" was still being implemented when the Double Eagle coin was minted, and the Double Eagle coin was not in circulation. Therefore, it is illegal to hold this kind of gold coins privately~lightnovelpub.net~ That is to say, even if these ten double eagle coins are left to you by your father, your father is getting these ten double eagle coins. The Eagle Coin itself is illegal, so these ten Double Eagle Coins are "stolen goods"!

　　 These two extremely powerful pieces of evidence made the Jongbo Lang family lose the lawsuit, and the U.S. government took back the ten Double Eagle coins in a fair manner. It is said that these ten double eagle coins are still kept in the underground vault in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

　　 In fact, this case can also explain an important reason why Double Eagle Coin is so precious. We must know that although the double eagle coins burned in the past accounted for the vast majority, there was still a small part of them circulated. Later, although Roosevelt used agents to recover the circulated Double Eagle coins, a very small part of it remained.

　　 What happened to the Qiong Braun family, Yang Jing is helpless, but how to deal with the two double eagle coins in his hand?

　　 Actually, Yang Jing was thinking about this since the discovery of these two Double Eagle coins.

In terms of 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, it means that Roosevelt knew about this. Yes.

　　 But the problem is that these things are my own guesses. If it is impossible to prove that the two Double Eagle coins were actually gifted to the DuPont family by Roosevelt, then the two Double Eagle coins are supposedly stolen.

　　 This is really an annoying thing