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LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
Was reading some vintage Numismatist mags tonight.

One article was interesting, asking collectors to be on the lookout for certain stolen coins.

Primary lead - One of the robbers waddled and had trouble breathing[]

Can you name the robbery?? image
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Weebles wobble...
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,759 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Weebles wobble... >>



    .....but they don't fall down.image

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  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Penguin?
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I know but am terrible with names so it was the rich couple that lived in Florida.
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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    DuPont robbery, 1967?
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep - DuPont - was reading some 1968 Numismatist mags tonight..........it's raining. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    By coincidence, one of my co-workers at Coin World, David T. Alexander (now with Heritage) was active in the Miami Coin Club at the time of the robbery and heard all about it, and told me about it (including a few unpublished rumors) one evening in Sidney.

    This came in handy when the duPonts' Linderman Specimen 1804 dollar came into ANACS and I identified it from the picture in "The Fantastic 1804 Dollar," because the book was published in 1962 and made no mention of the robbery. Because of David T. I knew the coin was hot, and tipped off Ed Rochette that it was in the building.

    TD
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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    "Yep - DuPont - was reading some 1968 Numismatist mags tonight..........it's raining."

    So what do I win? image
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So what do I win?

    A sense of pride and satisfaction?? image

    Capt. - thanks for sharing that! What an experience that must have been. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • Pretty vague!!!
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭
    One of the robbers waddled and had trouble breathing.

    I thought it was gonna be a pregnant women in her last trimester...... image
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  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's a good article about the 1967 Dupont robbery by Readers Digest in 2004. I recall reading it at the time. Not sure if there is anything more up to date or if any more has been recovered:

    http://www.rdasia.com/the_great_coin_heist

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  • steelieleesteelielee Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Here's a good article about the 1967 Dupont robbery by Readers Digest in 2004. I recall reading it at the time. Not sure if there is anything more up to date or if any more has been recovered:

    http://www.rdasia.com/the_great_coin_heist >>



    Wow, what a tale...thanks for posting it.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good read - thanks for posting that article. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • The asthmatic duck heist of 1931.

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