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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 7299907, member: 20480&quot;]I honestly don&#039;t know the legal answer to your question firsthand, although I know what seems fair, and I&#039;ve been on both sides of that situation myself.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I once bought stolen coins from a newspaper delivery boy (and his friend) in the 1980&#039;s who explained that he had accumulated the coins over a few years.&nbsp; It seemed plausible to me, as it was a modest amount of modern coinage, mostly Ikes, Kennedys, 90% silver and a few Canadian coins.&nbsp; I had resold the coins by the time the police contacted me, and did my best to reconstitute the lost coins for the rightful owner, although I was never told that I had to do so.&nbsp; It just seemed the right thing to do.&nbsp; The paperboy bought those coins from me and gave them to the victim, who seemed satisfied.&nbsp; I think those kids got a simple slap on the wrist.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the flipside, I suffered a much larger loss 12 years ago, and have been told by a specialist in numismatic law (name forgotten) that one cannot force an unwitting buyer to return a stolen coin, however police can impound it as evidence during prosecution / trial, and one can legally enjoin the current holder of stolen coin against ever selling it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While I have never seen a single one of those coins in those 12 years, I still sometimes search for them (photographically documented details of strike, and size, location &amp; orientation of marks are like fingerprints), but do not know what I could do to recover the loss, if anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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