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<p>[QUOTE="vegasvic, post: 415092, member: 15296"]DavidH I appreciate your number crunching, Your a man after my own heart, I've always said mathematics were my second language. This led to an accounting degree and an MBA in Finance, which is why I follow the technical analysis of gold and silver so closely.</p><p>What I really was trying to get across was that not every theft of a 1921 Morgan Dollar should be included, but the larger dollar amounts and the rarer and less seen coins could be included.</p><p>After the 2006 FUN show, American Rare Coin Galleries, of Minneapolis, MN, put their show inventory of over $2,000,000 in the back of their SUV and returned to their hotel to check out. As they pulled into the hotel parking lot, a car rolled up behind them, two men with guns got out and relieved them of all their coins and left. Never to be seen again. </p><p>That was the type of theft I was referring too, a large amount and several unusual types and series and varieties of coins.</p><p>I have always had two conflicting thoughts of how they could be so stupid as not to use an Armored Car Service to ship their coins back to Minnneapolis. Number one, the theft was an insurance scam. Number two, the coins as sitting in the collection of an Asian or European collector and it was an inside job. </p><p>I find it hard to believe that professionals in this business could be so stupid. Or were they?</p><p>There was a list of the coins e-mailed to nearly every dealer in the country, but as far as I know and I've been keeping an eye open for it, not a single coin has surfaced. Orlando to Miami, via yacht to who knows where. I believe that if people with money wanted to make it happen they would. An underpaid, coin salesman is all of a sudden offered the windfall of his life just to be stupid? </p><p>Vegas Vic[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="vegasvic, post: 415092, member: 15296"]DavidH I appreciate your number crunching, Your a man after my own heart, I've always said mathematics were my second language. This led to an accounting degree and an MBA in Finance, which is why I follow the technical analysis of gold and silver so closely. What I really was trying to get across was that not every theft of a 1921 Morgan Dollar should be included, but the larger dollar amounts and the rarer and less seen coins could be included. After the 2006 FUN show, American Rare Coin Galleries, of Minneapolis, MN, put their show inventory of over $2,000,000 in the back of their SUV and returned to their hotel to check out. As they pulled into the hotel parking lot, a car rolled up behind them, two men with guns got out and relieved them of all their coins and left. Never to be seen again. That was the type of theft I was referring too, a large amount and several unusual types and series and varieties of coins. I have always had two conflicting thoughts of how they could be so stupid as not to use an Armored Car Service to ship their coins back to Minnneapolis. Number one, the theft was an insurance scam. Number two, the coins as sitting in the collection of an Asian or European collector and it was an inside job. I find it hard to believe that professionals in this business could be so stupid. Or were they? There was a list of the coins e-mailed to nearly every dealer in the country, but as far as I know and I've been keeping an eye open for it, not a single coin has surfaced. Orlando to Miami, via yacht to who knows where. I believe that if people with money wanted to make it happen they would. An underpaid, coin salesman is all of a sudden offered the windfall of his life just to be stupid? Vegas Vic[/QUOTE]
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