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<p>[QUOTE="cplradar, post: 7978162, member: 108985"]<b>Everyone in the industry is dealing with stolen coins and every one of them knows it. You and I both likely have stolen coins in our collections - coins that were at one time stolen and reentered the market. </b> <i>The question is, what do they do about it. </i> And the best part is that it is often LEGAL because of sunset laws and because the bar for showing that a coin has been stolen is SO HIGH that the victim can rarely enforce a legal claim,</p><ul> <li>EVEN if they have photographs of each coin.</li> <li>EVEN if they have a record of receipts. <br /> </li> <li>EVEN if they have a police report of the theft.</li> </ul><p>So that is the way it is. And we all collapse back to the Dale method of security, with Rottweilers and Glocks. There is no way you are going to get help from the Numismatic community.</p><p><br /></p><p>That SUCKS and we can do much better and we have to or the government will do it for us. If coin dealers don't want to be lumped in with pawn brokers, and I am not making that case because while there are similarities, the two business models are completely different, then they have to do better to make sure they differentiate their business practices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cplradar, post: 7978162, member: 108985"][B]Everyone in the industry is dealing with stolen coins and every one of them knows it. You and I both likely have stolen coins in our collections - coins that were at one time stolen and reentered the market. [/B] [I]The question is, what do they do about it. [/I] And the best part is that it is often LEGAL because of sunset laws and because the bar for showing that a coin has been stolen is SO HIGH that the victim can rarely enforce a legal claim, [LIST] [*]EVEN if they have photographs of each coin. [*]EVEN if they have a record of receipts. [*]EVEN if they have a police report of the theft. [/LIST] So that is the way it is. And we all collapse back to the Dale method of security, with Rottweilers and Glocks. There is no way you are going to get help from the Numismatic community. That SUCKS and we can do much better and we have to or the government will do it for us. If coin dealers don't want to be lumped in with pawn brokers, and I am not making that case because while there are similarities, the two business models are completely different, then they have to do better to make sure they differentiate their business practices.[/QUOTE]
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