All Executive Orders
Executive Order 6102Revoked
Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates
Franklin D. Roosevelt
April 5, 1933
N/A (pre-Federal Register)
Summary
Prohibited private ownership of gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates by U.S. citizens, requiring them to deliver their gold to Federal Reserve Banks. Part of Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression and the devaluation of the dollar.
Topics
monetary policygold standardGreat Depressionbanking