Please help find my stolen coin!

Thanks for the heads up on the buyers. Their web site is about half broken as well. I doubt that I will see it, but will watch for it.
I do wonder who their "collectors" are, if any.

Seems that you are a true collector, someone who collects what he loves and won't part with it. !@#$%^ the thieves! Carry on! Enjoy!

Speaking of the effect of these scam artists.
I used to have a professional geneologist friend, her job was to track down lost heirs for lawyers settling estates. She said that she could find folks and talk to them on the phone, but that very few would ever sign and return the letter, they would send by certified mail with a stamped self addressed envelope, so that the lawyer could send the money. Usually the amount was in the low $10K's, sometimes 6 figures.( depending on the terms of the will, and the type of estate, some had costs to be deducted, some not). They even tried process servers. Seems that when found money is involved, the bad actors and scam artists have poisoned the well pretty thoroughly. Amazing how many people die without live people in their wills, or without anyone knowing about a will, or family. They would have to go back three generations, and 4 steps to the side to find a live one, then they would have to find half a dozen before someone would sign for the bequest. Many estates just ended up with the state. She only got paid if an heir got the money, so she had incentive to find them.

 

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Funny thing, we could.

 

Maybe you should email the traveling roadshow, pretend to be selling some gold coins that Granny left you and ask where they will be next? As others have said the chances of your coin being authentic are probably small however that doesn't mean it couldn't have been. The only way to really know IMO would have been to send it in to be graded- by PCGS perhaps.

 

yeah i agree with centdime

 

This is a 3 year old thread. The coin is long gone.

 

Yeah... I think new member Saint Bunny has to learn to look at the thread dates before posting.

 

I am confused by this story.

 

I think everybody needs to follow that advice.

 

Well, since the thread has been bumped, maybe Silentnviolent could chime in with the final outcome.......

 

One year after this happened, THR returned to my town. The convicted con man who stole my coin is now the lead manager. Go figure. The day they rolled into town, there was a blank envelope in my mailbox. My coin was returned. I contacted the officer in charge of the case and he was somewhat suprised, but he reasoned that it was too hot and distinctive to be able to sell. Stranger things have happened, I guess.... It is now in worse condition than it was

 

Sooo, is it even real to begin with?

 

Everyone here figured it to be fake, but strongly encouraged me to send it in. After this fiasco, I don't really have the stomach for it. Fake or real, it will be a long time before I get up the gumption to find out conclusively. For now, it's fine right where it always should have been: with me

To answer the question of whether or not I'd have accepted $10,000 on a $100,000 coin: At that time, after a general concensus of 'not genuine' here, and in trying to prepare for my first child, the answer is yes. I most definitely would have taken the money in a heartbeat. Problem is, with these crooks I'd have gotten a rubber check like so many others...

 

Good luck with the first child and congrats! Get some sleep now while you can.

 

How do you know it's the same coin, and not some switcheroo?

(Sorry, I'm just tuning into this show.)

 

Lol, thanks Greg! Sleep? I've got 2 kids now, and sleep is nonexistant. Lots of my posts have been in the wee hours lately. The second child is a lot less scary than the first! Probably because for the first there are so many unknowns, and for the kid#2 I pretty much knew what to expect.

 

it has a very distinctive crack on the reverse. either a lam. or plating peeling off. Tried to search the site for the old pics but they and the original thread when I asked about it are gone now? IDK. Gotta go to work now but maybe tonight I'll snap a few of it in its current condition.