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I called the local cops yesterday to turn in a coin doctor...

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,316 ✭✭✭✭✭
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... but they told me they couldn't help. Tomorrow, I will try the FBI.

Any other suggestions?
Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    Either quit doctoring coins or stop trying to turn yourself in image
    Its all relative
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>... but they told me they couldn't help. Tomorrow, I will try the FBI.

    Any other suggestions? >>



    Yeah, post their name here.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    You shuld have tryed calling Homeland Security. image


    Hoard the keys.
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>... but they told me they couldn't help. Tomorrow, I will try the FBI.

    Any other suggestions? >>



    Yeah, post their name here. >>



    And a week later, we'll be reading the obituary of Andy Lustig.
  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    It's okay Andy, I've given them an composite of the perp.
    We'll have him in custody before you know it!!

    image

    ~


    "America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,316 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And a week later, we'll be reading the obituary of Andy Lustig.

    GEN - I promise it's not you I'm turning in. Please don't hurt me! image
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>... but they told me they couldn't help. Tomorrow, I will try the FBI.

    Any other suggestions? >>



    Yeah, post their name here. >>



    And a week later, we'll be reading the obituary of Andy Lustig. >>



    Fine, PM me, and I'll post it.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,316 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fine, PM me, and I'll post it.

    PM sent.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    If the FBI is not interested

    then try the AMA.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <i> And a week later, we'll be reading the obituary of Andy Lustig.

    GEN - I promise it's not you I'm turning in. Please don't hurt me! image >>



    Whew, I was nervous for a minute image
  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    I am glad someone is trying but i doubt you will find much help. You have to have the crime to go with it.
    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    Help educate the uneducated... Is coin doctoring illegal? Other than the "added mint mark" variety...

    I understand the ethical part of it.. But is it illegal? I guess I would need specifics on what you called
    the police for..
  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    <<Help educate the uneducated... Is coin doctoring illegal? Other than the "added mint mark" variety...

    I understand the ethical part of it.. But is it illegal? I guess I would need specifics on what you called
    the police for.. >>


    If you sell a doctored coin and list it as original, how is that NOT fraud?

  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭


    << <i><<Help educate the uneducated... Is coin doctoring illegal? Other than the "added mint mark" variety...

    I understand the ethical part of it.. But is it illegal? I guess I would need specifics on what you called
    the police for.. >>


    If you sell a doctored coin and list it as original, how is that NOT fraud? >>



    Like I said, I guess you would need to define "coin doctor".. If the coin was original but was AT and the listing
    just said "original" and not "original NT" you would have a problem... You would have to prove the "coin" was
    not original..

    Having an added mint mark like on a 09-s-vdb would constitute fraud.. And I think it would be hard to prove
    a coin was AT to a prosecutable level....



  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,955 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the proposed health care is passed it may be awhile until they can get to your coin unless it is a "Reale" emergency.
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    I have been informed that the alleged coin doctor is Bennie Metuchen, a vest pocket dealer in upstate New York.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • mikeygmikeyg Posts: 1,002 ✭


    << <i>It's okay Andy, I've given them an composite of the perp.
    We'll have him in custody before you know it!!

    image

    ~ >>



    Michael Jackson is the coin doctor?? I thought he was dead
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <i><<Help educate the uneducated... Is coin doctoring illegal? Other than the "added mint mark" variety...

    I understand the ethical part of it.. But is it illegal? I guess I would need specifics on what you called
    the police for.. >>


    If you sell a doctored coin and list it as original, how is that NOT fraud? >>



    There's no set definition of "original." If a doctor specifically says a coin hasn't been doctored, that's a different story.
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    On the next episode of Coppers....




    The Feds won't show much interest either unless he's doctoring currency, making dollar bills into twenties...

    Would need to prove intentional fraud, proving the seller either purposely doctored the item (proving he did the manipulation) or knew the item(s) were doctored and attempted to or did defraud a buyer.
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Betcha if you speak with the right person and use accurate words like "fraud", you might get somewhere. That is if they aren't too overwhelmed with doing REALLY IMPORTANT law enforcement like arresting people for pot or counting their overtime pay.

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • GFourDriverGFourDriver Posts: 2,366 ✭
    image
  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭
    this topic has been hashed over for years

    I understand the ethical part of it.. But is it illegal?


    produce one person's name who has been prosecuted for doctoring coins
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,358 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>... but they told me they couldn't help. Tomorrow, I will try the FBI.

    Any other suggestions? >>



    I thought CAC was going to stop the coin doctors.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭


    << <i>this topic has been hashed over for years

    I understand the ethical part of it.. But is it illegal?


    produce one person's name who has been prosecuted for doctoring coins >>



    I couldn't find a single example when I tried to search the topic..

    I would imagine the cops didn't even know what he was talking about..image
  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭
    ......guy down the street had his car painted b4 he sold it - he's in prison now doing 10 to 20

    feller up the road put new shingles over the old ones on his home b4 it sold ........... he's on death row

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