Santiago coin collection stolen

Worst nightmare for any collector. Coin collection stolen with value of more than 500 000 US. One needs to take care. Keep an eye out for unexpected flood of Santiago reales on the market.

http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/2013/01/31/581899/roban-a-particular-que-tenia-coleccion-de-monedas-avaluada-en-300-millones.html

 

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Thanks for the heads up.

I couldn't imagine how I would feel, and my stash is not anywhere close to that. Man, I really feel for them.

Is it wrong to advocate the death penalty for coin thieves?

 

No

 

According to the article, the police think that the robbers were familiar with the house.

 

:devil:
Insider has or could be the best lead.
If there any photos or graded coins?
Post them.+#
That could help to recover them!!!
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Of course not, I think the death penalty should be expanded to a lot more offenses.....but people who know me have said that they think Jay Walking is going too far.

 

Sounds like a bunch of hippies.

 

Yep, inside job fer sure. Perhaps an insurance scam. No one leaves 350 million lying around unattended. Just too much money for one person to have anyway.

 

That was in the local currency, about $500k in USD. That may SOUND like a lot, but its really not when you are talking about nice coins. Mine are nowhere near as nice, but I have some boxes that would be $10k boxes, and that is with my cheap rear.

 

Got them on video.

http://www.13.cl/t13/nacional/revelan-video-de-robo-de-monedas-de-coleccion-en-recoleta

 

Strange, my local town at the weekend market, a few Santiago reales including 1791 So-DA 4 reales turn up with a new seller.