This piggy bank was found in the drawer of the desk. At that time, Yang Jing opened the drawer to see if there was anything left in the drawer. He found that in addition to some handwritten materials, there was a piggy bank the size of a palm in the deepest part of the drawer.

The piggy bank is porcelain and the style is also the very ancient Chinese Fuwa style. Although there are many piggy bank in China, it is rare in the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, especially in the United States more than a hundred years ago. Obviously, this piggy bank should have been bought by Alfred a long time ago, and even a gift Alfred received during Christmas when he was a child.

Anyway, this piggy bank should have a certain status during Alfred's teenage years, otherwise such a piggy bank would not appear in the drawer of the desk.

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

This old-fashioned piggy bank is a "Pi Xiu" and can only enter but not exit. If you want to take out the coins in the piggy bank, there is no way to recite it except breaking the piggy bank.

However, although this piggy bank has a history of at least a hundred years, it is not a precious porcelain. Moreover, this piggy bank may be a very important thing for Alfred, who has passed away for a long time, but 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 was really something good inside.

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

In the early days of the United States, most of the coins with larger face value were gold and silver coins, while most of the coins with lower face value were copper coins. Unlike modern coins issued, most of the coins made of alloys.

If this piggy bank really belongs to Alfred, it would not be surprising that gold and silver coins appeared in the piggy bank in the era when he lived.

The gold and silver coins issued in the early days of the United States have high collection value, so although these gold and silver coins are not large in quantity, their value is actually quite high.

After carefully distinguishing these gold and silver coins, Yang Jing actually found two somewhat unusual gold coins in it.

Both gold coins are gold coins with a very high face value - a face value of twenty dollars. The front of the gold coins is an image of a goddess of liberty holding a torch and an olive branch, and the north is an image of an eagle that has been flying all the time.

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

If the magazine books and even teak furniture I found earlier had a small leak, then the two golden coins that suddenly appeared were definitely a super big leak!

This big leak is so big that you don’t have to spend money on buying this manor, and there is a lot of surplus!

The reason is nothing special, because these two gold coins are the legendary "Double Eagle Coins".

In the era when the United States implemented the gold standard, it once issued a gold coin with a face value of ten dollars. The front of this gold coin is a goddess of liberty holding a torch and an olive branch, and the pattern on the back is an eagle that has been flying all the time. This ten dollars gold coin is called "eagle coin" by Americans.

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, the face value has doubled. Therefore, for the sake of difference, this eagle coin is called "Double Eagle Coin" by Americans.

This "Double Eagle Coin" was minted in 1933, and a total of 500,000 were minted, which was not rare. But shortly after it was minted, Roosevelt implemented a new policy and ordered the abolition of the gold standard, so he also stopped using gold coins. As a result, more than 445,000 of the "Double Eagle Coin" that had just been minted was finally re-cooked into gold bars in 1937, and the molds for minting gold coins were also destroyed.

Therefore, this batch of 1933 version of the "Double Eagle Coins" became the last batch of gold coins in the United States. Only a few "Double Eagle Coins" survived among the people, so they are particularly precious and are known as the "Mona Lisa among coins".

This kind of gold coin is extremely precious. In 2002, a "Double Eagle Coin" was sold at a sky-high price of 7.59 million US dollars, setting a record for the highest auction of a single currency. It is also the well-deserved most valuable coin in the coin collection industry today, ranking first in the world's coin collection rankings.

Things are precious because they are rare. This old Chinese saying is also vividly reflected in the Double Eagle Coin.

Because this batch of gold coins was recovered by Roosevelt through administrative means, strictly speaking, this batch of gold coins belongs to uncirculated currencies. It is said that Roosevelt even dispatched agents and national security departments to recover some of the Double Eagle coins that had been circulated on the market. Moreover, the United States also publicly announced at that time that this batch of gold coins should not be left in the world, and even if it is left in the world, it belongs to the property of the US government.

In later generations, only a dozen double eagle coins that were not destroyed back then were retained, and only one of them was collected by private collectors. The reason why this collector was able to collect this double eagle coins publicly was preserved due to historical problems. The other surviving double eagle coins were either not dared to publicly publicly, or they had been recycled by the US government long ago.

The reason why the US government is so tough about such a dozen gold coins is mainly because the US Gold Savings Act prohibited private ownership of uncirculated gold coins. Although this bill was abolished in 1974, the Double Eagle Coin appeared before the abolition of the bill. Therefore, if it is privately held this gold currency, it is illegal to obtain the Double Eagle Coin itself is a currency that has never been listed and circulated at all. Therefore, if it is held privately, it is illegal.

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

For this reason, a case involving the ownership of the Double Eagle Coin broke out in the United States, and it ended with the victory of the US government.

Joan Braun Sweett, who lives in Philadelphia, and her two sons, found ten "Double Eagle Coins" in a safe deposit box at United Bank in 2003. The family was so happy at that time. After all, based on the auction price in 2001, the value of these ten Double Eagle Coins is as high as more than 70 million US dollars.

Joan Bolang immediately found experts from the US Mint to help identify these ten double eagle coins, but although the identification results can confirm that these ten double eagle coins were the ones that were missing out on the net back then, these ten double eagle coins were directly detained by the US government, and the answer given by the US government is quite imposing - these ten double eagle coins will not belong to you!

Such accusations are great? The most important thing is that this is a double eagle coin worth more than 70 million US dollars. Why is the US government deducted it if it says it? No, old lady, I have to hand over the government!

So the old lady and her family sued the US Mint in Philadelphia in court with a complaint. Otherwise, your mint will return my ten double eagles coins, or you will have to pay me 40 million US dollars.

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

US government lawyer Joel Sweet pointed out incisively, "Your family (Joan Braun) has never legally owned these ten double eagle coins, so how could you detain this statement?"

Joel's evidence was very sufficient, and there were two main points to prove that Joan Bolang's family had never legally owned these ten double eagle coins.

The first evidence is that the person who placed the gold coins in the American Bank safe was not Joan Braun's father Sweett, because Sweett had passed away for six years when American Bank rented this safe in 1996. How could he save these ten double eagle coins in the bank safe?

Moreover, after Svet's will came into effect, his family did not include gold coins in the inheritance table or pay inheritance tax for him. Why do you say that your old lady is the relic left to you by your father?

This just one evidence makes the old lady's family refute nothing to say.

Then, Joel presented a second evidence, which originated from the abolished Gold Savings Act.

When this decree was promulgated, the United States also implemented the gold standard, so this decree was absolutely fine. The Gold Savings Act was still in place when the Double Eagle Coins were minted, and the Double Eagle Coins were not listed and circulated, so it is illegal to hold this kind of gold coins in private.

In other words, even if these ten double eagle coins are the inheritance left to you by your old man, it is illegal when your old man gets these ten double eagle coins, so these ten double eagle coins are "stolen goods"!

These two extremely powerful evidences made the Joan and Bolang family lose the lawsuit, and the US government reclaimed the ten double eagle coins openly. It is said that these ten double eagle coins are still preserved in the underground vault of Fort Knox in Kentucky.

In fact, this case can also explain an important reason why the Double Eagle Coins are so precious. You should know that although the Double Eagle Coins destroyed that year accounted for the vast majority, a small part was still circulated. Later, although Roosevelt used agents to collect the Double Eagle Coins circulated, a very small part remained.

Yang Jing had no choice but to deal with the two double eagle coins he had in his hand?

In fact, since the discovery of these two double eagle coins, Yang Jing has been thinking about this.

Judging from the DuPont family's status at that time, these two double-eagle coins were most likely given to Alfred by Roosevelt, because these two double-eagle coins were not taken back by Roosevelt, which means that Roosevelt knew about this.

But the problem is that these things are all their own guesses. If it cannot be proved that these two double eagle coins were indeed given to the DuPont family by Roosevelt, then these two double eagle coins are also considered stolen goods.
Chapter completed!