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Forum Dad
 United States
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A dealer attending the recent Baltimore show has reported the theft of over $80,000 in Bust halves. The coins housed in two books were removed from the dealers show case. Click below for a complete list of Bust halves: Stolen Coin List Anyone with information or comes into contact with persons attempting to sell a large quantity of Bust halves should contact: Doug Davis 817-723-7231 doug @ numismaticcrimes.org |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Unlike bullion, it will be more difficult for the theif to move all these with out drawing attention.
Hopefully he will be stupid enough to get caught.
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Moderator
United States
16679 Posts |
^ Agree.
To bad you can't foresee these criminals walking onto the bourse floor.
Wonder if the dealer was just careless for a split moment or had his back turned.
Nevertheless, sad.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Moderator
United States
15493 Posts |
Very Sad ....
I was at that show ... hoping the dealer gets some of the coins back.
David
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Valued Member
United States
167 Posts |
Sorry to hear of the Bust half theft. I think one possible solution in the future would be a small cheap vacuum stick security camera. It'd save to a flash memory and would be good for maybe 40 hrs of video. Then if nothing happened it could be wiped & reused easily.
Currently my ancient blackberry stores video at the rate of 0.84 GB per hour of pretty high quality video. I bought a 128 GB flash drive for my laptop for ~$100. Thus storing 24 hrs of video should be easy?
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Valued Member
United States
324 Posts |
lets keep this on page one
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1448 Posts |
What a shame...$80,000 in bust halves.. At that point I'd bank vault it once the collection breaks the 4 figure mark. Keep detailed scans and if a serious buyer comes along, take out the coins interested. Too much to lose at once.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dealers take their coins to shows to sell. The "serious buyers" would have been at this show. That's like a car dealer having a dealership but with no cars in the lot and only photos in his office of what he would liked to sell you....come on....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1448 Posts |
If you are fine with the possibility of losing 80g in coins, be my guest. The dealership analogy isn't really the best comparison because you aren't toting the cars back and forth from place to place like you would coins. For the more valuable coins, I'd keep nice clear scans and if a buyer specifically asks for a certain coin I'd just say I don't feel comfortable bringing it to the show etc. but will take it out for you. Just my opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1554 Posts |
Let's see theft, weather, vandalism, etc. Dealers bring serious money coins to the Baltimore Show to sell. Can you imagine going to a Show and all of the KEY DATE coins are just photos. You can't bring photos there it won't cut it. Theft at coin shows is unfortunate but it happens. I would assume the dealer is insured.
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Pillar of the Community
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Aren't the rooms set up with security camera's at the larger coin shows?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
837 Posts |
This is a heartbreaking story ....echoing what 1893S said - I also hope he had insurance on those babies !
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
I do hope the odds are against anyone trying to sell those to a dealer.
If enough of that group appear for sale--I hope that sets off alarm bells.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8904 Posts |
Ouch! Man, this makes my heart hurt! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1053 Posts |
I'wondering how he pulled it off?
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Rest in Peace
United States
2668 Posts |
I hope they fully bust the thieves!
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Posted 06/29/2013 7:24 pm
