Spikes High
Posted on 03/02/2016 4:19:25 PM PST by OttawaFreeper
The population of one of the rarest baseball cards in the world has grown by seven after an amazing discovery in the rural South. Only about 15 of the rare 1909-1911 T206 Ty Cobb variation, distributed only in tins of the short-lived Ty Cobb Tobacco product, were known to exist until a family began going through the belongings of a family’s deceased great-grandfather. While not immediately certain of the scarcity of what they’d found, it became apparent last month that they’d stumbled upon a small fortune inside the dilapidated home.
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.367 lifetime batting average.
http://www.cmgww.com/baseball/cobb/know.html
If this Executive Order was upheld, then Obama could simply Executive-Order gun confiscation. Precedent is there.
After reading that list, the most amazing thing was he stole home 54 times.
Oh, it was upheld, alright. But the difference is gold coins and bullion don’t shoot back.
Guns do.
I meant more along the lines of “what gold coins, I didn’t see any gold coins!” But if they made out better by declaring them, then all’s good.
As a coin collector I’m naturally curious about the coins but I can imagine they were beautiful.
They shouldn’t have reported them.
My Dad has a handful of old “cigar box” (I think they are called?) baseball cards. Somewhere like 2 babe ruths, 2 or 3 ty cobb, lou gherig, and a few others. Maybe Honus Wagner—I think so. Been 20 years since I found them and gave them back to him—long story. They were pretty faded though. Maybe half quite faded. None what I’d call primo.
How many of these decisions were after FDR stacked the court?
And tobacco.
Although I’m sure they would be fine with marijuana.
Just asking but why did they divulge to anyone that they found the money?
You dad and his siblings should have decided they found nothing.
IMHO neither the state or the fed. Have any moral claim to funds that have already been taxed when earned.
Legalized theft for the Borg.
Sort of. Technically there was still gold/silver backing to the paper currency (so we were still on a bimetal standard), but citizens were not allowed to privately own gold bullion. It wasn’t until the Nixon administration that we completely abandoned the gold standard.
The law is actually still on the books to this day, but there are exceptions for “collectibles”. So when you buy gold bullion, you have to buy coins that at least ostensibly have some collectible value. You can’t simply buy gold bars or the federal government could come in and confiscate them.
I toured an old gold dredge up a creek in Idaho. In the 30s and 40s when they got 65 pounds of gold, they would pour a brick then put it on the floorboard of a pickup and drive to the post office. The postman would paste an address label on it and send it unwrapped to the Denver mint without fear of theft because gold was illegal to hold then.
Not quite. There is no constitutional right to own gold, so the precedent would not strictly apply to confiscating firearms.
Man. I don’t wanna hear no more BULLS*** about how America is free. How the hell can they ban gold. You know, revolution is about 100 years too late.
Then why is it that Apmex has 1 oz gold bars for sale?
Agreed.
BS
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