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<p>[QUOTE="Mountain Man, post: 7869158, member: 94733"]When I first started with the Sheriff's department, I worked the property warehouse and saw thousands of things that thieves thought they could sell. It's even worse now with the druggies taking anything not glued down.</p><p>Coins were usually removed from any albums or other containers, so were loose. I ran across a few gold coins that were in TPG slabs, but not many. Once a year, we held an auction of released items. These were items from adjudicated cases where the true owners could no be located. What really broke my heart, was when the sheriff of the time, refused to let us sell any weapons, so I cried as matched Colts in a red velvet case was sent to the metal grinder, along with other collectible guns.</p><p>We took all weapons to a huge metal recycling (read that as junk yard) company and had to watch as each item was ground to little pieces to verify they were indeed destroyed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mountain Man, post: 7869158, member: 94733"]When I first started with the Sheriff's department, I worked the property warehouse and saw thousands of things that thieves thought they could sell. It's even worse now with the druggies taking anything not glued down. Coins were usually removed from any albums or other containers, so were loose. I ran across a few gold coins that were in TPG slabs, but not many. Once a year, we held an auction of released items. These were items from adjudicated cases where the true owners could no be located. What really broke my heart, was when the sheriff of the time, refused to let us sell any weapons, so I cried as matched Colts in a red velvet case was sent to the metal grinder, along with other collectible guns. We took all weapons to a huge metal recycling (read that as junk yard) company and had to watch as each item was ground to little pieces to verify they were indeed destroyed.[/QUOTE]
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