Loading ...I remember a few months ago watching a video of a fellow who came into possession of a home built about a century ago , and finding caches of old metal school lunch boxes literally stuffed with $20 pre-FDR gold bills . The bank honored the face value in $20 Fed Reserve Notes , and the guy was pleased as punch to turn them in .
Little did he realize how badly America was screwed when each of those notes no longer could be converted to an ounce of gold .
Whoever collected and hid them obviously thought that the government would again honor them in gold some day . He died waiting .