Subject:      Shame on Family of Eagles
From:         [Deleted]
Date:         1997/06/27
Message-Id:   [Deleted]
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Newsgroups:   rec.collecting.coins

An elderly couple came into my store trying to sell me their wedding rings.
They were worth only a couple of hundred dollars, and they said they
would try somewhere else because they needed $600 right away. I assumed
it was needed for doctor bills, but the husband told me that they had
enrolled in the Family of Eagles plan (scheme) and that the Royal
Canadian Mint had just announced that they were making a special 
edition of the 1/10 oz gold maple leaf with the Family of Eagles logo.
They needed the $600 to buy 8 of these coins, because "they would
really take off, because it's the first time a government mint had
so honored a private company." 

I showed them the 1/10 oz eagles and maples that I sell for $39. The
man said "Yes, but those coins can't earn me $100,000 or more a year!"

Anyone know anything about the Canada tie-in? I thought FOE was so
dedicated to "reducing the national debt" by selling AMERICAN gold
coins.  These people are a blight on the coin business and they
deserve to burn in hell.