David Redden Quotes

It wasn't until a few weeks after that license was signed that suddenly everyone realized that an awful mistake had been made. This coin was illegal to own, and in fact clearly had been stolen from the U.S. Mint.

- David Redden

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Coins are not money until it's monetized -- until the Treasury says they're money. They weren't legal to spend. It was simply a bright gold round disc. They were by order of the Treasury in 1937, melted down. - David Redden

It wasn't until a few weeks after that license was signed that suddenly everyone realized that an awful mistake had been made. This coin was illegal to own, and in fact clearly had been stolen from the U.S. Mint. - David Redden

In 1944, we were in the middle of a world war, and Egypt stood at the crossroads in the middle of the Mediterranean. It was not, perhaps, precisely the right moment in diplomatic history to go and try to make a claim on a coin. - David Redden