article_snippet.sent: Nearly half a million of the coins were minted in 1933, though almost all were melted and a surviving coin sold for $7.6million in 2002 .
article_snippet.sent: the coins were never released to the public after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt switched the US off the gold standard .
article_snippet.sent: The money makers in Philadelphia sent all of The money makers in Philadelphia gold coins to be melted in 1937, according to Bloomberg.
article_snippet.sent: The last run of nearly 500,000 coins were never released, and it was thought The last run of nearly 500,000 coins were all melted down for scrap.
article_snippet.sent: Robert W Hoge, curator of North American coins and currency at the American Numismatic Society, said that federal authorities had been 'fanatical' about finding no coins.
highlights_snippet.sent: Very few of Coins from Langbord's father Israel Switt exist because FDR ordered US off gold standard .
  