We've heard the story before. Coin collection stolen from a home. Longmont cops looking for stolen coins
If that was the only items stolen, then they know what they were looking for. He should have had them in a safe!
It goes to show that you have to be very careful who you can trust. With todays prices, especially gasoline, people are getting pretty desperate.
Hey if you're a member of the ANA you can get group insurance for cheap cheap cheap. My premium plus my ANA membership cost is less than 1/3 of what my regular insurance (auto, home, etc carrier) wanted to charge me for 1 year. In this day and age its worth it, even if you do own a safe.
I think we all know whats going on here, we all have talked in other threads on the fantastic finds we are making pulling items from circulation... times are tough, and when things get tough, items folks have collected can sometimes get spent, and still other folks will steal what folks have collected ....
.....or, the guy was covered under insurance and was really only worth $300, but he needed $3500 to cover some late bills, and poof....the collection is stollen and the insurance money rolls in. I imagine this is the case more often than not. Guy~
FYI: What I did was purchase a Snap On locking tool chest. I put it on blocks and removed the wheels. With the coins in it, it's well over 1,000 lbs. And it cannot be broken into. Then I also have a gun safe which I converted into a coin safe. Without coins in it, it weighed 450 lbs. After I loaded it up, it also weighs over 1,000 lbs and it is fire proof. Used gun safes are cheap but you need a truck or trailer to get 'em to your place and then you gotta load it into your house. Just when you buy it, don't tell anybody you're gonna use it for coins instead of guns. Thiefs don't like their customers to own guns.
? $3500? 8 Rolls of 'golden $ say $25 face each =$200 Several Silver $ (Say #4 pcs @ $20) = $80 2 rolls of 1970's 'real' silver dollars say 40% X 20 pieces x 5.5 face =$110 Junk silver: 4 rolls quarters ($40) 2 rolls dimes ($10) 1/5 rolls mercs ($15) Total = $65 face X 13 =845 Steelies @ say 10 cents each =10 Total= $1245. Others ? = $2,245 Don't you think that if the bulk of the 'other' was worth twice the listed items that the owner would have a better log? Makes me wonder if they are HSN coins and values?
Man! They make pretty nice safes for a hundred bucks these days which are also quite heavy and awkward to haul around, assuming they'd even be found or were capable of moving! Cherry wood box laying in the open????? No. Those get stolen. Sorry, but it's tough for me to feel sorry for him. Not even a single ounce of prevention. Now he's a victim because of lack of foresight, stupidity and/or laziness. Not going to feel sorry for him. A lot of these cases sound fishy to me anyway. The guy could have pawned it all over the last several years for all anyone knows. If it did get stolen, he just learned an expensive lesson.
Well, I know there was another article posted about someone else's collection getting stolen...then later recovered. I can only assume that there's been plenty more unwritten.
That's two. Maybe. And millions unstolen... certainly unwritten. There's an enormous emphasis on the negative. It gives a distorted view.
Ok whatever. I'm just saying it bothers me that people's collections are getting stolen like this. No need to nit-pick
If we are dwelling on the negative then I am to blame because I started both threads about coin collections being stolen. This is how news is typically reported. Which of the following headlines are you more likely to read in a newspaper? Plane Crash Kills Two Plane Lands Safely At LAX
It's not negative, Hobo, it's educational. Hopefully such news will prevent others from making the same mistakes these others made. Guy~
