Help In Recovering Stolen Property

Good sharp clear pictures of your coins can be used like a finger print , no two coins have Identical appearances .especially circulated coins but even mint state coins will have undeniable identifiable details.

No big deal to have them on a flash drive AND a computer.

Ya don't routinely backup your computer? Bad move. Think of the time it would take to recreate your system! There is software available to automatically do such. Well worth the investment.
Then you put the backup, hopefully offsite. In the good old days, I would put backups in the toilet tank - in case of fire.
Also you should have multiple backups. One a month for three months. Gee I could go on forever, and that's a long time, about backups.

Also I would think if you had pictures of your coins that that would help - at least in my collection(not many in mint condition).

I use a USB flash drive in the safe. I think when I sync my ipod it copies all photos too.

Wasn't there news recently of a bank being swallowed by a giant sinkhole? In Texas, or was it Florida?

No, it was Kansas... Topeka, I think!

Now that is silly. There are way to many people with the same initials. Even if you carved your intire name, there are many with the same name. NO, you have to do as I'm doing. Get a lazer machine and carve a complete serial number, your name, address, phone number, mothers maiden name on the edge of each coin. Then just to make sure, write your shoe size hidden somewhere on the face.
On a serious note. You could take all the photos you want and they will do very little with a stolen coin collection. Complete discriptions plus photos are just as good. You could ask the probably millions of people that have had coins stolen and they would all agree they are gone forever.
NO ONE in a pawn shop around here ask any questions about anything. NO ONE at a flea market ever ask where did you get those coins. NO ONE in a coin store, hobby store, coin show ask where did you get those coins. Even jewlers don't ask anything. So far just in the block I live there have been two homes robbed of coins and the police admitted that they should be considered gone. In many instances coins are taken out of slabs, books, folders, albums and just spent as coins or even taken to a bank and then run through a coin counter.
And paper money? Of course there are serial numbers and dates but if they look like a normal bill, they too will just vanish at similar places. There is a pawn shop near me that deals in coins and has them all the time. If you ask where they came from you'll be told where did what come from. Coins, we don't have any except what is in the cash register and that is the last time you'll be welcome there.
Unfortunately when coins, currency, guns, knives or even sports cards are stolen, they are just gone.