After Coin Shop Robbery, Rare Coins Spent At Face Value

No one ever said that criminals are smart. Not saying the woman deserved to be robbed, but letting a random person see a collection like that that you hired is asking for trouble. She should have hid them away before they came over to do the work.

Sad as it is. Does give more point to coin roll hunting. Who knows how often Little Jimmy swipes a quarter from Uncle Joe's coin collection to have enough to buy some bubble gum or something and Uncle Joe just thinks he misplaced it like one of his marbles .

I know I would never have known to look for valuable coins in common coin locations until I started collecting.

I just read the story.
So all you have to do to evade arrest is to be pregnant
C'mon at thief is a thief pregnant or not and should feel the full weight of the law

I wouldn't pay $10 for the Mona Lisa either, since the French cops would just take it away from me.

Oddly enough people just don't really know how or where to shop. For an example I remember when I was a kid a loaf of bread was about $0.10. Today there are stores connected to bakeries that sell the overruns for not much more than that. Kmart used to be famous for their blue light specials where they would clean out areas for less than they paid for items. Used to get shoes for $1 that way. They don't do that anymore though. And if you go to flea markets, gun shows, coin shows, computer shows, electronic shows, etc. some items are massively less than any store.
At all coin shows I always ask dealers for any old Albums and sometimes I get piles of them free.
Yes you still can get things for small amounts but you have to know how, where and when.
One lady wrote a book on couponing. She was on TV and claimed she fed a family of four for $11/week.

^ that or foreign coins... What kind of irresponsible person has a 9-month pregnant girlfriend, in need of cash, and then spend his cents at the movies and pizza parlor? This guy needs to be re-educated pretty fast.

Agreed, not a very fast-witted thief. Most crimes come from open opportunities (lucky open case, for instance). But a crime is a crime and it doesn't matter how "low" it is. Fraud is stealing, and murder is murder with a gun or poison or a push into a train - they should all be treated equally. Worse yet are countries that protect minors like Canada and Brasil. In Canada if you're a minor and accused of a major crime your name doesn't appear in the papers or police reports even if it's a serious crime like a weapons charge or murder. The public should be allowed to know who's irresponsibly toting guns. I hate our laws that slap criminals on the wrist. [lol/rant]

If they knew the coins were rare and spent them for face value, then they are very stupid