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American Silver Eagle
- h2odragon 4y agoThe 1996 coins are often somewhat expensive, that year is "rare." Someone discovered a loophole where by they could sell things in exchange for a US Mint silver coin and not charge sales tax on that transaction. Conveniently, neither did they need to charge sales tax for selling someone a US Mint silver coin. Thus they sold a lot of coins, briefly, and a lot of merchandise without tax. I knew one person who still had thousands of circulated 1996 silver eagles from that trick. He'd pass them out to friends and kids with a lecture about how the Federal Reserve Note was not real money.