[mvpel]

It ,on the surface, appears wrong for the Fed's to move in on this.

That's the nice thing about being a Fed - never having to say you're sorry. You can destroy a man financially with trumped-up charges - or murder his son and his wife - and get a promotion when all is said and done.

[kinoxi]

I cannot immediately relate prior actions to this one. Time constraints being the main issue. The correlation is impossible. They have jobs to do and generally I’m glad that they do it. When they don’t ram tanks into civilian compounds and burn alive women and children that is...

[Travis McGee]

Here are some representative "silver rounds" I just googled. There are literally dozens of private mints making them with thousands of designs, but the important points are that they all say "one ounce fine silver" and they don't say "TWENTY DOLLARS" along with $20 and USA, like the so-called Ron Paul silver dollars.

There is no problem with buying and selling these silver bullion coins, for that's all they are: bullion.

Interestingly, at the founding of our country, a "dollar" was meant specifically to denote an exact weight of silver, based on the most common silver coin circulating in the colonies, the Spanish "Piece of Eight." That is, a dollar just meant "a coin created by the U.S. mint containing as much silver as a Spanish piece of eight." IOW, a dollar was an amount of silver.

Over the past 200+ years, this understanding of the word "dollar" has been debased and bastardized until it has lost its original meaning, and a dollar is just a paper fiat bill, backed by nothing but the faith and credit (sic) of the U.S. govt.