Executive Order 6102 Poster

Roosevelt forbidding the hoarding of gold coin gold bullion and gold certificates within the continental united states.

Executive order 6102 poster. Executive order 6102 required u s. Executive order 6102 forbidding gold coin bullion poster sized at 8 1 2 x 11. Roosevelt on april 5 1934.

Whoever willfully violates any provision of this executive order or of these regulations or of any rule regulation or license issued thereunder may be fined not more than 10 000 or if a natural person may be imprisoned for not more than ten years or both. Executive order 6102 is an executive order signed on april 5 1933 by u s. The order criminalized the possession of monetary gold by any individual partnership association or corporation.

Under the trading with the enemy act of october 6 1917 as amended on march 9 1933 violation of. Conveniently omitted from most history text and lessons executive order 6102 is a clear example of the united states government using force to confiscate private property from american citizens. Executive order 6102 is an executive order signed on april 5 1933 by us president franklin d.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 5 b of the act of october 6 1917 as amended by section 2 of the act of march 9 1933 entitled an act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in. The real executive order 6102 lists certain exemptions such as up to 100 face value of gold coins including art industry and mining the hoax does not. Citizens to deliver on or before may 1 1933 all but a small amount of gold coin gold bullion and gold certificates owned by them to the federal reserve in exchange for 20 67 per troy ounce.

Roosevelt forbidding the hoarding of gold coin gold bullion and gold certificates within the continental united states. Executive order 6102 required all persons to deliver on or before may 1 1933 all but a small amount of gold coin gold bullion and gold certificates owned by them to the federal reserve in exchange for 20 67 consumer price index adjusted value of 378 today per troy ounce under the trading with the enemy act of 1917 as amended by the recently passed emergency banking act of march 9. Executive order 6102 requiring gold coin gold bullion and gold certificates to be delivered to the government.

The hoax does not state what the penalties are for violation of it as opposed to the real executive order 6102 which states a penalty up to 10 000 and up to 1 year in jail. And any officer director. Executive order 6102 by president of the united states.

Executive order 6102 in 1933 at the height of the great depression president franklin delano roosevelt fdr confiscated all of the gold that american private citizens held. Fdr issued executive order 6102 also known as the gold confiscation ac t.