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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael W. Bradley, post: 4834233, member: 114144&quot;]I feel like a party crasher who doesn&#039;t know anyone at the party. All I am trying to do is to build an inexpensive collection of the Emperors, my analogy would be my Jed Clampett log cabin to the mansion at Beverly Hills. Most of you are light years beyond. I did have a friend of a friend steal my few bills of Silver certificates, US notes, a humiliating experience takes a while to get over. So when I replaced them I laminated them all, which included also a few new Confederates, foreign and a couple of German Inflation Reichmarks I got at a coin shop for 35 cents years ago. I am not interested in investment, just History. There is a guy on Craigslist who had a robbery five years ago and is still posting &quot;reward offered&quot;.&nbsp; I asked him if the police ever took fingerprints, said &quot;no&quot;. My take is it may have been a relative on drugs, he should have gotten a dog at least. If you can afford an expensive collection your best bet is to hire a PI right away. I am trying to get three posts into one so I stay out of trouble. Some people are collectors and some are not. I want to share the story that in 1963, my mother&#039;s cousin visited us kids temporarily in Virginia from Ohio and he gave me a 1923 Liberty Silver Dollar. Being a natural hoarder, I treasured it. One day my mother demanded I give it up as she had family laundry to do, argued as I might I had to surrender it. I reminded her about it recently and she said: &quot;You&#039;ll never forgive me for that-will you&quot;?. We laughed. But that was the way she was.&nbsp; Coins have no intrinsic interest to her.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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