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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
OF NEW YORK
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Circular No. 1332 "1
January 15, 1934 J

Amendment of Executive Order of August 28, 1933, Relating to the Hoarding,
Earmarking and Export of Gold and to Transactions in Foreign Exchange
To All Banking Institutions in
the Second Federal Reserve District:

For your information, we quote below the text of an executive order issued by the President of the United States under date of January 12, 1934. This executive order is an amendment of executive order of August 28, 1933, quoted in our circular No. 1273 dated August 31,
1933.

EXECUTIVE ORDER
Amendment of Executive Order of August 28, 1933
The first paragraph of section 4 of Executive Order No. 6260 of August 28, 1933, relating to
the hoarding, export, and earmarking of gold coin, bullion, or currency, and to transactions in
foreign exchange is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4. Acquisition of Gold Coin and Gold Bullion. No person other than a Federal Reserve
bank shall after the date of this order acquire in the United States any gold coin, gold bullion, or
gold certificates except under license therefor issued pursuant to this Executive order, provided that
member banks of the Federal Reserve System may accept delivery of such coin, bullion, and certicates for surrender promptly to a Federal Reserve bank, and provided further that persons requiring gold for use in the industry, profession, or art in which they are regularly engaged may
replenish their stocks of gold up to an aggregate amount of $100, by acquisitions of gold bullion
held under licenses issued under section 5(b), without necessity of obtaining a license for such acquisitions, and provided further that collectors of rare and unusual coin may acquire from one
another and hold without necessity of obtaining a license therefor gold coin having a recognized
special value to collectors of rare and unusual coin (but not including quarter eagles, otherwise
known as $2.50 pieces, unless held, together with rare and unusual coin, as part of a collection for
historical, scientific or numismatic purposes, containing not more than four quarter eagles of the
same date and design and struck by the same Mint).
Section 6 of the aforesaid order is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subparagraph:
(e) Through any agency that he may designate, the export of gold coin having a recognized
special value to collectors of rare and unusual coin (but not including quarter eagles, otherwise
known as $2.50 pieces, unless held, together with rare and unusual coin, as part of a collection for
historical, scientific, or numismatic purposes, containing not more than four quarter eagles of the
same date and design and struck by the same Mint).
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
T H E WHITE HOUSE,

January 12, 1934.




GrEOBGE L.

HABEISON,

Governor.