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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 8208440, member: 77704&quot;]Probably most coins in collections where stolen/ looted after they where struck. The, English/ British where best at this, Queen Elizabeth I/ Anne when gold/ silver stocks were depleted sent Privateers/ Royal Naval units to plunder Spanish gold shipments on route from the New World to Spain. Sir Henry Morgan/ Sir Francis Drake excelled at this, and were Knighted. Napoleon&#039;s armies looted Austrian Lombardy-Venetian cities/ museums of artworks/ treasure/ lot of it now resides in the Louvre. The Hermitage has looted art/ rare coins stolen by Red Army. Spanish Republican govt. sent Spain&#039;s gold reserves/ coins/ jewels to Stalin for safe keeping in the USSR, never was returned. Even the FDR govt. in the US, under threat of prison time forced private citizens to turn over their gold coin collections to the State<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Private collectors today, obtain their coins thru legal means/ dealers/ auctions. We work hard to have the $$$ to purchase beautifull works of art/ coins etc./ then properly care for them/ share them with fellow collectors. The anti-collecting crowd, maybe should get a life, start a coin collection<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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