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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2267682, member: 76181&quot;]Cont.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I should mention something that someone asked earlier elsewhere. Insurance??</p><p>Well, I had actually spent a good amount of time on the phone with my insurance company a year earlier about making sure my coins were covered. A premium increase and a inventory list later I was covered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it was late November 2012 and I was restarting an out of state project that required me to be gone 3-4 days each week. Within a week of me starting the job I received a phone call from my wife telling me we had been burglarized. Nobody was home, everyone was safe, but the coins were gone. I had forgotten to return them to storage and had left them out on a table. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is where Carthago jumps in to help. My collection was on-line in a couple places and when I informed the board (Forum) of the theft, he copied the photos and pasted them into an announcement. I was a 2 hr drive away and on the return drive I called the insurance company. They quickly informed me that they had no record of the inventory list or any documentation that would indicate I was insured for the coins. I had lost my coins and insurance in a flash. </p><p><br /></p><p>Police, interviews, fingerprints, etc followed. And nothing came of it. I was completely dejected, it was a very sad Holiday season ahead. The family was traumatized by the burglary, my collecting was done and that was that. Black clouds. People suck, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I got a very public post from an alias I vaguely recognized announcing they were going to jump the gun and carry though on a promise made a couple years earlier. To my surprise the buyer of that Augustus had heard about the burglary and he wanted to return the Augustus to me. He wanted it to be the first coin in my new collection. It was a remarkable offer that I quickly turned down as too generous and unnecessary, although the sentiment was appreciated. I had forgotten the promise made at the time of sale. I was touched but adamant in the emails that followed.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then one day in the 3rd week of December on a cold and not very happy day, the mailman drove up the driveway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gotta stop here. Will finish next post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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