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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 6447577, member: 73489"]You posted a 10-year old CT thread...an article on the Saddle Ridge Coins implying they might be stolen property and then with an update from the Fed saying they aren't and the coins and the $$$ can stay with the family who found them...and then a couple of articles on thefts. I don't doubt that thefts of coins happen, we know it does.  But you were implying that the TPGs are knowingly grading and certifying STOLEN coins which seems somewhere betwen unlikely and preposterous. And most dealers and LCS will not deal KNOWINGLY in stolen merchandise. That's not to say that coin thefts don't happen or that sometimes things can get messy and sticky with a dealer or the police -- I am sure they happen. But quite frankly I think stolen coins is not at the top of the priority list for most of us.  It's a terrible problem IF it does happen, for sure.  But the THEFT is the problem, not LCSs or dealers or TPGs going along with the crime. BTW, there was a thread here on protecting one's collection (safes, insurance, SDBs, etc.).[/QUOTE]