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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6426610, member: 110350&quot;]I don&#039;t think one person in this thread has even begun to suggest that theft by an insider isn&#039;t a possibility, or that university employees are all necessarily honest. Nobody is that naive. And nobody is claiming that we know the answers. Nonetheless, it&#039;s still an interesting topic to discuss, so the number of responses doesn&#039;t surprise me in the least. Really, the choices are pretty much down to surreptitious theft by an insider (and/or surreptitious sales of coins by an insider), sales by the university itself that it now wants to disavow or for which it has no records, or theft by an outsider who had repeated access to the collection -- akin to the several notorious cases of rare book, manuscript, and print dealers slicing pages out of rare books in a library and smuggling them out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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