Good start to the year - stolen coins recovered!
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Excerpt from today's GFRC blog:
"A huge shout out goes to Julian Leidman for recovering the 1871 NGC MS62 25c and 1871 PCGS MS62 CAC 50c that went missing in Silver Spring, Maryland before Christmas. The two coins, still residing in their holders, walked into Julian's Bonanza Coin Shop on Thursday morning. Julian quietly called 911 with the Montgomery County police arriving shortly there after. A woman was arrested."
The rest is here:
http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/DailyBlog.htm
Great news and thanks to Julian for being proactive and on the lookout for these. Nice job!
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Outstanding news.... Thanks for sharing with the forum. Very happy to hear of the recovery and arrest. Cheers, RickO
Good start, indeed. Hopefully, she can lead the authorities back to the original thief and the rest of what was stolen. I have a hard time believing someone would be stupid enough to try and sell someone the stuff they stole from them, although I suppose I should never underestimate the amount of stupidity that exists.
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Great news - and I hope the perps get what they deserve!
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Wow - great news! I'm really surprised those coins turned up again. +1 for the good guys.
The woman was book and charged. After a two hour interrogation, she confessed to the coins being stolen by a worker at the Silver Spring Post Office. The police will be launching an investigation
Great news indeed!
Hope there's a follow up story on this.
Great news.
Going forward, I sure hope that the new chipped holders are secure when shipped.
Way to go Julian!
I think/hope this is a next move going forward. Chips (or barcodes) read into the pcgs app are checked against a lost/stolen/known counterfeit database
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But what happens when a rouge postal employee scans a package she believes might contain a valuable coin.
Perhaps the devices are not sensitive enough now to read through bubble packaging and corrugated board, but maybe in half a decade.
So my thread the other day about a missing package take a guess where it went missing....
You got it...Silver Spring, MD. Also right before Christmas.
She found them on a sidewalk....
Way to go Mr. Leidman.
Cool story, thanks for sharing.
good job Mr. Leidman
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That's awesome.
You can wrap the package in any sort of foiled plastic. The scan can't penetrate metal.
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Call the officer on the case. Hopefully he can help!
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Awesome capature!
Excellent!!
Someone lost a job and jail time? Contractor or an actual USPS employee? Lot’s of BENE to lose if an USPS employee.
Excerpt:
“The woman was book and charged. After a two hour interrogation, she confessed to the coins being stolen by a worker at the Silver Spring Post Office. The police will be launching an investigation.
The GFRC customer had made several visits to the post office to speak with postmaster and his carrier. No one knew anything and eventually, they refused to speak with my customer on subsequent visits.”
Am I understanding correctly that she tried to sell the stolen coins back to the shop that had sold them to another customer?
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Awesome! Another story for the "Dumb Crook" file!!!
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that is great news to read
So customer bought coins from Julians shop. Go out for delivery and usps employee steals the coins. Give to girl to sell. In poetic justice she takes them to Julian to sell. Dumber then a box of rocks considering box probably had return address to Julians. Curious how much they were trying to get for coins , which would indicate they knew value. Glad they got them back. Someone stole $5000 worth of coins from me a few years ago. I have heard noting. Good job Julian and police.
Hopefully this will lead to other numismatic crimes being solved.
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The coins were mailed from Florida to a customer in Silver Springs,Md. They were not bought from Julian.
A super shout out to Julian.
I guess if the “rouge” postal employee stole the coins, you can say she got caught “RED” handed 😆.
But that may not apply to a “rogue” postal employee.
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Raised around there, wish I could say I am surprised.
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THIS.............is THE way to do it!
The coin world salutes you, Julian.
As do I.
Pete
Thieves don't think about getting caught. It's all about selling the loot for benjamins. Wonder how many other prior coin thefts have occurred at this postal office? Peace Roy
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