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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 459450, member: 11521&quot;]<a href="http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/11/14/news/top_stories/doc491e3401d9063390183634.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/11/14/news/top_stories/doc491e3401d9063390183634.txt" rel="nofollow">Stolen bank notes worth $50,000</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Why am I not surprised one of the accused is drug addict? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These geniuses sold some of the stolen notes to a jeweler who also buys &quot;coins, gold and other small collectibles&quot;. The jeweler paid the men $5,450 for 9 notes. The men returned the next day and tried to sell more notes for $5,500 but the jeweler said they were not worth that much. The following day the jeweler compared the serial numbers of the notes he bought to a list of stolen notes and discovered he had bought stolen notes. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When the men returned again trying to sell coins the jeweler stalled the men and called police. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m not sure what they mean by &quot;laminated notes&quot; but I suspect they mean &quot;slabbed&quot; (or whatever the correct term is for third-party graded currency). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would also like to see that 1752 $10 note. I wonder who issued it 24 years before the start of the Revolutionary War. I wasn&#039;t aware that the term &quot;dollar&quot; was in use that early. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Again, I&#039;m not sure what they mean by &quot;unsealed currency&quot; but I suspect they mean &quot;raw&quot; or loose notes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This just goes to show that many cases of coin and currency thefts go to fuel a drug addiction. At least these guys didn&#039;t spend the currency at a convenience store for beer and cigarettes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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