$63,000 Coin Collection Stolen in North Carolina

A North Carolina coin collector had his collection valued at over $63,000 stolen. Police said the found no signs of forced entry.

Read the story here.

The stolen coins included the following:

• 1 complete set of Morgan dollar coins
• 2 complete sets of Peace dollar coins
• 1 complete set of Barber Quarters
• 1 complete set of Liberty Standing Quarter
• 1 complete set of Washington Quarters dating 1932-2008
• 1 complete set of Liberty Walking Half-Dollar coins
• 2 complete sets of Franklin Half-Dollar coins
• $900 (face value) of Eisenhower Dollar coins

Lock your doors. Better yet, store your coins in a safe deposit box or a safe.

 

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This is why no one knows about my collection. Except of course the good folks of CT.

That is tragic though, hopefully they can recover them, or atleast catch the guy(s) who did that.

 

Alarm system and a safe and a motion detector and auto lights and police connect and cell phone call connect.

If I'm home?

.45 and a cell phone

 

I hate seeing this, its just terrible. There are few more dishonorable things to do that steal someone. I hope they catch him.

Amen to that!!!





(Don't break into my house).

 

Gold Cup !!!!! Yee hawwww, NICE

 

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Yes, its a rare one too. Its a commander gold cup with standard blade sights, one of only 300 made. My best friend bought to customize and when he found out it was rare, didn't have the heart to alter it...so he made me a heck of a deal.

 

If I am home, a .45 in one hand and a .357 magnum nickel plated revolver in the other. No need for a cellphone, the police can just follow the sound of gunshots.

 

guys guys please dont keep your coins at home. store them in a vault with insurance.

 

then how do U play with them??

 

I always marvel at the amount of fire power displayed on this forum....just blows me away.

 

In England I have a whistle which I can blow really loud to either disorientate the thief or alet the authorities.

My coin collection at this current moment in time is only worth a few 1000 dollars and not worth keeping in any banks at the moment.




It's not easy to unload coins though...i hope every dealer in the area has been alerted.

Also if the owner had them valued....that's probably because he had them insured.

 

1 45 cal
2 22 cal
1 12 guage
2 20 gauge
2 30-06
3 30-30
2 black powder

all with ammo, sighted in yearly AND everyone knows how to use them all. No alarms. No motion lights, nothing. We all hunt so why scare the game away? They dumb enough to enter, darwins theory of evolution WILL follow!

I agree, that if the sets were valued, they had to be insured. Thats some consolation to having your lisfes work stolen. It wont replace the hole in the gut for having it all stoeln, but if the collection was some sort of nest egg, the insurance will help with that..... IF it was in fact insured.

crooks SUCK!

 

Anyone that comes into my house will have to deal with the Hillbilly Special Forces.

 

Score one for safe deposit boxes. I don't think I'd shoot someone for a coin.

 

That's probably true, and he'll get the money for them...but to me it wouldn't make up for the loss. Even if he replaced every coin with that money, it still wouldn't be the same set, it wouldn't be the same as the one the person spent years assembling. So, if it was me, it would never feel the same.

Neither would I, I'd shoot them for being in my house.

 

"Anyone that comes into my house will have to deal with the Hillbilly Special Forces"

Thats fake! There isn't a Moon Pie, a long neck Bud or a dawg to be seen. Shootin' ain't no fun without the accessories.

 

Think the sword hanging on the front of my house and rottweiler should be enough. I'm always home even if it doesn't look like it.(taking care of grandpa). 3 forms of martial arts, throwing stars in the kitcken, nunchucks in the garage, throwing knives, potato gun, blowgun ( i have nailed a fly to the wall twice from 35-40 ft. although I'll admit I was kind of lucky). For longer range mossberg and a 22. And all backed up by neighbors like jaceravones HSF.
Cloudsweeper99, I probably wouldn't shoot them either. It's over too quickly. I'm more of the thought that it would probably be hard to steal blind in one eye and in a wheelchair. I try to be a rolemodel to these type of people. This way, they learn quickly and you only have to tell them once!
green18 your comment made me LOL. Blows me away, hahahahaha.

 

Hillbilly Special Forces

That's quite a crew you got there Joe. Makes me glad that West Virginia was on the side of the North during the Civil War.

PS: Is that long gun legal? Looks like it would take out an Abrams.

 

Had a "Close Call" with the DTV man the other day... He & I were outside checking the dish and this fellow said he wouldn't go into the backyard with our dogs (two Labrador Retrievers) loose, so I calmly ventured in to chain them up; when I looked up he was gone -- slowly I walked all around the house and no DTV man...

Then I walked into the front door and (guess what) there he is talking on my phone and $%#@*ing to someone about us having dogs and that not being noted on his work-order. (FWIW, all I wanted was a line run out to the office so I can watch the tele here.) I kinda went off, you could say I lost my cool, some might agree with me, some might not. To be honest, had my wife been home the guy was lucky he wasn't shot...

Alas, we still have only one working receiver, LOL...

 

Well, it sounds like either this guy is an idiot for not locking his doors when he's away, and should have just hung a neon sign over his door advertising free goods to all, or it's an inside job and his kids have some explaining and a lifetime worth of chores to do.
Guy~