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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nerva, post: 2755459, member: 87761&quot;]I know a bit about the art market. Art thieves make money by ransoming to the insurance companies rather than selling to collectors. The going rate is about 10%. Opportunistic thieves generally find they&#039;re unable to sell at any price. There are lots of examples of thieves destroying art or keeping it for years, but I can&#039;t think of a major stolen picture that has been recovered after being kept in secret by a collector. There are established public records to check for stolen works of art, so it&#039;s a bit more formalised than the coin market. My suspicion is that even unscrupulous people don&#039;t want to be thought badly of, and wouldn&#039;t want their relatives to discover their secret stash of stolen goods after their death. There will be exceptions, of course, but my guess is that recognisable coins will be hard to fence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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