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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1650342, member: 11521"]I thought the same thing and then I remembered that it is a scripted TV show. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I was in high school one of my classmates' father had a junk yard (aka salvage yard). Several times I went with him to car auctions where he would buy wrecked cars that had parts that he needed. Practically all the cars were totaled and were being sold by the insurance companies that had insured them. </p><p><br /></p><p>At every auction there would be cars that had not been wrecked. I asked him why they were being sold if they had not been wrecked. He explained that the cars had been stolen and recovered after the insurance company had paid the owner for the car so the car became the property of the insurance when it was recovered. Similarly the Roman coin should become the property of the insurance company that had insured it. I guess the script writers didn't think of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1650342, member: 11521"]I thought the same thing and then I remembered that it is a scripted TV show. When I was in high school one of my classmates' father had a junk yard (aka salvage yard). Several times I went with him to car auctions where he would buy wrecked cars that had parts that he needed. Practically all the cars were totaled and were being sold by the insurance companies that had insured them. At every auction there would be cars that had not been wrecked. I asked him why they were being sold if they had not been wrecked. He explained that the cars had been stolen and recovered after the insurance company had paid the owner for the car so the car became the property of the insurance when it was recovered. Similarly the Roman coin should become the property of the insurance company that had insured it. I guess the script writers didn't think of that.[/QUOTE]
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