Stolen Coin Alert: Seattle Washington

swhuck

The following coins were stolen from Federal Express packages in Seattle, Washington in the last three weeks. They were all purchases in our February Long Beach Coin Auction or our January Dallas Jules Reiver Collection Auction. Any information would be appreciated. We will make sure anyone turning in coins is made whole. Please contact Paul Minshull or Doug Baliko with any information.

Dallas/Reiver:

1795 50C 2 Leaves. VG8 NGC. O-108a. Cert: 656441-016
1806 50C Pointed 6, Stem. XF40 NGC. O-118a. Cert: 656445-016
1806 50C Pointed 6, Stem. AG3 NGC. O-127a (encapsulated as O-127). Cert: 656446-008
1807 50C Draped Bust--Obverse Scratched--NCS. XF Details. O-109a. Cert: 5070826-066
1807 50C Capped Bust, Small Stars XF45 NGC. O-113a. Cert: 308118-007
1807 50C Capped Bust, Large Stars AU50 NGC. O-114. Cert: 308118-005
1820/19 50C Curl Base 2 AU50 NGC. O-102. Cert: 308112-019
1823 50C Ugly 3 XF45 NGC. O-110a. Cert: 308141-010
1828 50C Curl Base 2, Knob AU50 NGC. O-107. Cert: 308159-007

Long Beach:

1926 $2 1/2 MS63 ICG. Cert: 86321432650C
1885-S $20 MS62 PCGS. Cert: 02984811
1908-D $20 No Motto MS64 PCGS. Cert: 06432542
1909-S $20 MS64 PCGS. Cert: 05170359
1909-S $20 MS64 PCGS. Cert: 04162897
1910-S $20 MS64 PCGS. Cert: 21826263

Thanks for any help you can provide!

deansmint

Truly sorry to hear this, looks like someone recognized your address. If you dont already, try using an abbreviation of your company name without 'Coin' anywhere on the package.

deansmint

Sorry, just saw that this was from heritage - Im sure you guys know what your doing. Again, sorry to hear this.

Bochiman

Man, that sucks

I hope someone gets burned for doing this! I live in the area and really hate to hear this.
I wonder if they just ripped off a few packages or a whole bunch at once.......

Cladiator

I'm always looking at Reiver coins on the secondary market. I'll keep a sharp eye out for the ones you've listed.

stev32k

This is not the first time I've read of coins being stolen from Federal Express shipments, but I don't remember reading of any being stolen from UPS. Does Fed Ex really have more of a problem in this area?

ricko

Wow... I live in Seattle as well, I will also watch for signs of these coins... Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

just keepin this thread alive for exposure

KoinDawg

I noticed several Reiver coins on sale at Teletrade. See if any of them are yours.

KoinDawg

No, not on TT. There's 61 Reiver coins for sale on eBay right now but none of them look like yours.

Nysoto

I had won four of these coins at the Reiver auction:

1795 O.108a half dollar NGC VG 8
1806 O.118a half dollar NGC XF 40 rare terminal die state
1806 O.127a half dollar NGC AG3 R.7, one of about 10 known
1807 O.109a half dollar NCS XF40 details, I am accumulating 109's for study

These coins are all rare and will be traceable. I will report this to the Seattle Police and will be contacting local coin shops.

This is very upsetting as the coins are irreplacable to me.

edit - auction lots are 22487, 22567, 22579, 22590, Reiver signature auction. The online Reiver auction coins I won arrived OK.

Cladiator

Damn! Ok I'm keeping a really close eye out for them now. Bill, keep us updated.

Cladiator

Here are the Heritage photos of the stolen coins that were Nysoto's. If you click on the link just below the photos of the slabbed coins you will see massive close up photos.



1795 O.108a half dollar NGC VG 8;


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Click here for large Reverse photo





1806 O.118a half dollar NGC XF 40 rare terminal die state;


Click here for large Obverse photo
Click here for large Reverse photo





1806 O.127a half dollar NGC AG3 R.7, one of about 10 known;


Click here for large Obverse photo
Click here for large Reverse photo





1807 O.109a half dollar NCS XF40 details;


Click here for large Obverse photo
Click here for large Reverse photo

Nysoto

TTT for the weekend crowd. Cladiator, thanks for the images.

Cladiator

This deserves a bump to the top.


ps. no problem nysoto.