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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3849283, member: 39"]So you're outside the US and are able to reach that palmbeachpost.com website? Good for you then - I'm in Europe and cannot access their site. Not that I really want or need to; up to them who they allow in and who gets locked out. But in this particular case I got curious of course <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and fortunately I have in the meantime found the story elsewhere. (<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-05/florida-man-redeems-stolen-rare-coins-worth-33000-supermarket-coin-star-machine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-05/florida-man-redeems-stolen-rare-coins-worth-33000-supermarket-coin-star-machine" rel="nofollow">Here</a> for example.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So "In addition to the spare change he received from the Coin Star machine, Mele said he took some of the coins to a local coin & jewelry shop, where he sold them for roughly $4,000." No matter whether these figures are accurate or not, it seems to me that "some" coins went into the machine, and others were sold to that store. At a bad price for this seller, right. But as a criminal drug addict who wants cash fast, you do not have that many choices, I assume ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3849283, member: 39"]So you're outside the US and are able to reach that palmbeachpost.com website? Good for you then - I'm in Europe and cannot access their site. Not that I really want or need to; up to them who they allow in and who gets locked out. But in this particular case I got curious of course :) and fortunately I have in the meantime found the story elsewhere. ([url=https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-05/florida-man-redeems-stolen-rare-coins-worth-33000-supermarket-coin-star-machine]Here[/url] for example.) So "In addition to the spare change he received from the Coin Star machine, Mele said he took some of the coins to a local coin & jewelry shop, where he sold them for roughly $4,000." No matter whether these figures are accurate or not, it seems to me that "some" coins went into the machine, and others were sold to that store. At a bad price for this seller, right. But as a criminal drug addict who wants cash fast, you do not have that many choices, I assume ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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