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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 793277, member: 22004&quot;]A member on an anti-fraud site came home to find over $50K in coins stolen: </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is a rant, bear with me. And the stupid part is at least part me.</p><p>Friday when I came home I found my house (the well armed bunker complex) was broken into. The stole 2 televisions, a box of coins and a quilt.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quilt was one I had given my mother shortly before she died, it means more to me than anything else taken. When I was divorced it got taken mistakenly by my ex wife, and though she had no actual malice, getting it back took 4 years and I only just recently did get it back, it was setting on the kitchen table only because the night before my girlfriend and I were looking at it to choose paint colors for a remodeling in progress, I&#039;m sure they used it to wrap one of the TVs which makes it just stupid.</p><p>The TVs are nice ones, but both insured and in the grand scheme of things unimportant. If they had just taken the coins, it may have been months before I even noticed they were gone. Taking the TVs was stupid, because the box of coins (1907-1932 $20 Gold pieces) were worth over $50K. And also one 1907 $5 gold piece, which my great grandfather went and got when FDR called in the gold in 1933. It was the one that got me interested in them and again, it means more to me than all the rest of them. And my sister has told me for years it was stupid to keep stuff like that in the house....</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the really stupid thing is that I have (had, we put it in a safe deposit box Saturday) a 200 oz gold bar that was literally in my sock drawer, but they didn&#039;t find that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone have experience in helping law enforcement locate thefts like this? What are the odds the fellow will recover his losses? Do the smart thieves just deface semi-numismatic items and send them to a refiner?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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