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Rest in Peace
United States
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Received a call from someone reporting a theft of coins in Perry county. Included:
about $2500 face silver coins
misc gold coins
about 100 $2 bills
If something like this shows up (fat chance), contact the perry county sheriff's office.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks for the post, I'm here in OH as well... That poor collector  |
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Pillar of the Community
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It's good of you to alert anybody living in the general vicinity of where this was stolen. The problem is, that kinda stuff shows up all the time. Maybe if somebody walked into a store with all three including almost the exact amount of silver and bills you noted it would warrant a call to the sheriff. These days people are selling various amounts of junk silver and misc. gold coins all over the place. The thieves would have to be real idiots not to be able to get away with this at this point, hate to say.
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Rest in Peace
 United States
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2500 face is still pretty unusual, but part of the reason I didn't research it further was that the thief isn't likely to sell it around here. Chicago is only a 7 hour drive, for example.
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Pillar of the Community
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Would be so easy to dump with no questions asked. You would probably need to go to several different places but could easily be done.
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New Member
United States
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I hope the collector was insured for that.....most policy do not cover coin loss unless you have added (and payed the huge fees) them separately.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 , murrough! Doubtful. Prolly got the coins for face, and never thought to cover them. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Without accurate descriptions, dates, mint marks, quality, etc. it would be impossible to ever find those. And if the crooks are normal crooks, those coins and bills will be spent in stores everywhere.
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Pillar of the Community
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Everybody these days knows all about silver coins. They'll probably go on a giant road trip selling $100 face to every coin shop and pawn shop along the way. Sell a gold coin here and there too. They won't spend any of it.
I don't know what they'll do with the $2 bills. They might not spend them because they probably have never spent a $2 bill before. I'm no expert on paper money, but if those are non-sequential non star note, more modern $2 bills they wouldn't be worth for any coin shop to buy anyway. Unless they were 1928 red seals, I doubt they'd get an offer. Possibly 53' or 63' uncirculated red seals, but nobody's gonna buy any of the federal reserve notes from 76', 95' or 03'
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Canada
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Bummer I hope thy catch the guys.
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Posted 12/15/2011 7:05 pm
