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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1880354, member: 22004&quot;]“First of all, and most importantly, the vault from which Dimmick stole the $30,000 in double eagles was the Cashier’s working vault. This vault was used for daily business transactions and would have only contained all denominations of coin made during that fiscal year ending June 30th, 1901. That means that all of the coins within that vault would have been dated 1900 or 1901. If the mint still had older issue coin it would have been stored in the basement vaults, or would have been melted or recoined by that time. &quot;</p><p>Has that been proven, what is the evidence in the archives/records? Remainder bags as well as other possibilities would explain the discrepancy.&nbsp; After the shortfall was discovered how did they do the thorough inventory work?&nbsp; Others believe it was not Dimmick but Cole who was the likely thief due to suspicious circumstances behind how Cole worked so hard to finger Dimmick. </p><p><br /></p><p>“Secondly, Dimmick stole only double eagles, and the recent discovery contained several other denominations, and mints.&quot;</p><p>Absolutely proof of nothing, as other denoms. and mints could be explained in many ways.&nbsp; There were lots of cc mint gold in circulation at the time, the trip from SF to CC was not that great.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Lastly, had Dimmick known where the coins were, he most likely would have gone and retrieved them after he was released from prison, and lived for many years after that time.”</p><p>Not if it had been his supervisor who had stolen them. Cole died soon after the conviction of Dimmick.&nbsp;&nbsp; And you can be sure that Dimmick had detectives shadowing him when he got out of San Quentin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can probably discount the possibility of Black Bart being the source; also Jesse James.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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