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Here we go again: Annandale, VA..."Police: Rare Coins Valued at Up to $500,000 Stolen from Elde

GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭✭

Wayne Herndon country I believe..............



Annandale Patch By Mary Ann Barton 2:45pm

Police: Rare Coins Valued at Up to $500,000 Stolen from Elderly Couple


After returning from a coin show in Charlottesville last month, an Annandale couple left their collection in the car for 10 minutes after pulling into their driveway. When they returned, everything was gone.

After attending an antique coin show in Charlottesville on Saturday, April 14, an elderly couple returned home to the Annandale area only to have their collection—worth hundreds of thousands of dollars—stolen right out of the car in their own driveway, police said Tuesday.

Detectives believe the victims were targeted and that the suspect may have followed them home from the coin show.

The couple, who live in the 3800 block of Stuart Circle, left the coins and bank notes in the car for "no more than 10 minutes," after they returned home, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

The items were inside three brown leather briefcases, two document holders and a leather backpack, which were all hidden under a blanket in the rear hatch area of the car.

Some of the items taken were:
•1929 National Notes in increments of $5, $10 and $20 dollars. These notes are from but not limited to: The Peoples National Bank of Leesburg, the 2nd National Bank of Culpeper and Fauquier National Bank.
•There are also additional notes from these selected Virginia locations: Fairfax, Warrenton, Hot Springs, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Waynesburg, Strasburg, Roanoke, Marshall and Charlottesville.
•Numerous Confederate notes in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $50 and $500 stored in a document book with plastic holders.
•1932 Indian Gold piece
•Numerous commemorative half dollars
•$1 gold pieces
•Confederate Obsolete notes (no other specifics)
•1922 Plain penny
•Numerous U.S. small currency notes (no other specifics)
•1909-S VBD penny
•Book of Confederate notes (no other specifics)
•Box of Indian Head and Lincoln pennies
•Two 1934 $1,000 notes
•1934 $500 note
•1928 $500 note

Detectives are hopeful these stolen items may appear on the collectors’ circuit or at a future show. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS(8477), e-mail via our website at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES(274637). A $100 to $1,000 cash reward will be paid for information that leads to an arrest

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Comments

  • I believe that there was another thread concerning the same incident about a month ago.
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I believe that there was another thread concerning the same incident about a month ago. >>



    Wonder why they are taking so long to put out this info, as the burglary was back in April.
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,170 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I read the opening thread the bold words "Coins valued at up to $500,000..." I immediately thought of the newspaper ads run by the hotel coin buyers.

    Does anyone think the described items would be worth anywhere close to $500,000?
  • drei3reedrei3ree Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does anyone think the described items would be worth anywhere close to $500,000? >>



    NO. Maybe it's an added digit typo? Or...insurance fraud. Naw, "elderly couples" don't do that.
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭✭
    Yeah, and while we're at it, now that we know they're elderly & collect high dollar valued coins, let's publicize what block on what street in which town they live on, so other thieves can come along and finish the job and rob them & their home...................imageimage
  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When I read the opening thread the bold words "Coins valued at up to $500,000..." I immediately thought of the newspaper ads run by the hotel coin buyers.

    Does anyone think the described items would be worth anywhere close to $500,000? >>



    I would not doubt the valuation. I know the couple, very nice people, been around forever on the local coin show circuit. But the value is in the paper money, I would think, from having seen them at many shows.

    It is odd that this news is so late.

    Tom

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