Stage coach robbery

Blade

Would you pay a premium for a coin if it was in a documented stage coach robbery (mid 1800's) or not? I think that would be pretty cool, a real taste of the dangerous, lawless old west.

LincolnCentMan

I dont think I would. Well, maybe if they caught it on surveylance and I got a copy of the tape with it....

David

BigGreek

Curious: how would you document a particular coin as part of a robbery?
To answer your question: it depends on who did the robbery. If it was someone
famous I may pay a premium.

nederveit

Blade, I don't think I would...sort of like saying Elvis touched my MS62 coin. Hard to prove and maybe even believe?

Hey, tell me about your icon coin!

Scott G. - met ya at FUN

lordmarcovan

<< <i>I dont think I would. Well, maybe if they caught it on surveylance and I got a copy of the tape with it.... >>




LCM, if they have authentic surveillance videos from the mid-1800's, I'd definitely pay a premium!

K6AZ

Oh yes, I'd pay a fortune for a Morgan dollar that had a Jesse James pedigree. Or did you just mean stage coach heists? I think Jesse James made his living heisting trains.

ms70

I'd pay more for a little piece of history than I would for a pedigree of someone that simply kept a coin in a vault.

wayneherndon

Not a good idea to buy stolen property.

K6AZ

<< <i> Not a good idea to buy stolen property. >>



Wayne, I think we're talking about coins that were recovered, but were part of robberies. Like the Binion coins, those were heisted and recovered.

ccex

The 1907-D dime is a favorite date of mine, since many dimes minted in Denver that year were lost in a wagon train waylaid in the Black Canyon. These are tough to find in MS or AU. (I cite David Lawrence's "Complete Guide to Barber Dimes".)

Blade

Not intending to find the coins as stolen property. Let's assume they were held by the US Government for a period of time and released to the market. Hey, it's just a hypothetical. I thought it would be kind of cool.

There are lots of people who are descendents of famous people in our culture. I'll bet they don't realize the value of their coins if they could get them authenticated as owned by the famous person from previous generations.

TommyType

Sounds alot like: "Would you pay a premium for a coin recovered from a famous shipwreck?"

We know the market's answer to that question, so I would think a verifiable pedigree from a "wild west" robbery would probably sell pretty well!

morgannut2

Actually there is some non-coin James Brothers material coming up for auction Feb. 5th. at www.auctiongalleryonline.com. I think theres a trunk, some tintypes, spurs, etc out of an estate of their Uncle. I tend to believe the authenticity because it's from Stamping Ground Kentucky, and few people would know they originally started in that little town. My cousin has some coin counterfeiting material from the early James era, but I think they spent all their loot.

solid

There would definately be a market for coins like that if, say, someone found
a chest of gold coins buried in the desert or hidden in a cave and it also
contained verifiable documentation that linked it to an Old West robbery!

Conder101

It woud be hard to document coins from such an event. Paper money is often easier since it carries serial numbers. (For example it is possible to acquire gold certificates that were part of the Lindburgh baby kidnapping ransom.) If they COULD be documented then yes they would probably be worth a premium. We always talk about coins as being a part of history but this would be a case of a coin being tied to a SPECIFIC historical event. Of course that would make it worth more.