Came across these 2 stories that relate to you guys and your ancient thingies. Thought you might like to read up if you haven't seen the stories already. A big theft in Los Angeles of US gold & ancients... http://www.numismaticcrimes.org/?q=node/573 And a strange one, to say the least, in PA... http://abc27.com/2016/05/11/over-200-bags-of-heroin-ancient-coins-seized-in-lancaster-drug-raid/
At some point one should invest in a deposit box at the bank. I can understand not having one if your collection is not even worth a few thousand dollars, but that guy had a collection easily worth several hundred thousands of dollars. At some point you have to stop being cheap.
Gee.. 200 bags of heroin, weapons, assorted other drugs, and "the most shocking discovery" were the five Trajan coins? So that's how other people see us...
Clearly, the reporter writing this story was "articulation challenged." More likely he meant "the most surprising discovery..." but couldn't bother to reread and rethink whether his prose actually described the event.
Too funny - "Brass knuckles, a stun gun, large amounts of power tools, women’s jewelry, about 1,000 sports trading cards, and two digital cameras were all found". I know it's PA but really - who doesn't have these laying around the house?
There's been a large, low-grade ancient collection dispersed through local Lancaster-area auctions recently. They were probably stolen from one of the buyers in those sales.
Look for it all on police action sites lol. Anything they can claim under seizure laws goes straight into the coffers. I've even heard of cops seizing $50k cars to sell at -auction because the driver was caught with only a few grams of pot in draconian pot law states
I think most people still think that ancient coins are something only museums and millionaires can get. So they saw this as "Drug dealer also has priceless ancient artifacts that he must have stolen out of a museum or something." Like it was the equivalent of finding a Leonardo DaVinci painting in his house.
