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<p>[QUOTE="saltysam-1, post: 2200033, member: 23368"]That is the first thing I thought of as well. How do you just hand over a $127,000 coin to someone at a show and not get it back? Likely this wasn't the case, but why wasn't it being look after by anyone? Display cabinets should all be locked. That would mean a key is involved. Or was it being protected by on site security overnight? Idhair: Give us more details so we can narrow the thought process. This sounds to me to be an inside job. If a thief can get $20,000 for it, that is $20,000 he didn't have before hand. Then someone 25 years from now can say they bought this coin as part of a private collection offered for sale. Of course it will be cracked out and insiders will sell it among themselves until some poor, honest smuck, sells it in the open market and it's confiscated as contraband. He looses, everyone else gains. Think this doesn't happen? Check all the missing art pieces, stolen from galleries and museums, that are never found.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="saltysam-1, post: 2200033, member: 23368"]That is the first thing I thought of as well. How do you just hand over a $127,000 coin to someone at a show and not get it back? Likely this wasn't the case, but why wasn't it being look after by anyone? Display cabinets should all be locked. That would mean a key is involved. Or was it being protected by on site security overnight? Idhair: Give us more details so we can narrow the thought process. This sounds to me to be an inside job. If a thief can get $20,000 for it, that is $20,000 he didn't have before hand. Then someone 25 years from now can say they bought this coin as part of a private collection offered for sale. Of course it will be cracked out and insiders will sell it among themselves until some poor, honest smuck, sells it in the open market and it's confiscated as contraband. He looses, everyone else gains. Think this doesn't happen? Check all the missing art pieces, stolen from galleries and museums, that are never found.[/QUOTE]
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