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On April 5, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed this presidential executive order, effectively making the hoarding of gold illegal, punishable by fines and potential ten year prison sentences, thus requiring American citizens to turn over all monetary gold to the US government: bullion, coins, and gold certificates. (Exceptions: jewelry, industry, etc.) All was essentially bought by the gov't, at "spot" or "melt" value, but with all but some of the vast American people's bulk of gold, FDR double the price of gold.

• All this was done to spur US economy out of the Great Depression; the logic is relatively sound, but it strikes me as rather extreme. Today, and although the dollar is always fluctuating, the US economy is more stable than back then. And still, many people invest directly in precious metals, converting their salaries into grams and ounces and pounds gold, silver, platinum for the stability of the metals themselves.

• If the President of the US were to pass such a law today, I'd hope there would be some outrage or at least conversation. Maybe people no longer hoard gold or silver at the same level they did before 1933 (remember that before 1965, dimes and quarters and halves and dollar coins were made of 90% silver: almost sterling), but I know many people who keep old coins and bullion in safety deposit boxes, and I "know" tons of Internet friends who invest directly in precious metals: see /r/silverbugs and /r/coins.

QUESTION : What was the reaction to FDR's executive order 6102? Of general people, of the hoarders, of state governors and of rest of the federal government? Was such a thing passed without much blowback, and were people angered at a rather totalitarian move? Or was it justified by the far-reaching darkness of the Great Depression?

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And I'm curious how there were so accurate on sea, AND land. I've seen this question, but I can't find a good answer...