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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Impressive sleuthing!

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  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭✭

    That's pretty awesome.

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  • RaufusRaufus Posts: 7,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just fantastic!! Thanks for sharing.

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  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    This does not happen often....

    That's an understatement! Cool story!

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  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭

    Nice story rickO, thanks for posting.

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great story.

    Side note - the local news station that reported it, WPSD 6, is in the town where I was born and raised...Paducah, Kentucky. :smile:

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,830 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 14, 2017 10:24AM

    Nice ending, even though it was 45 years later.

    They make no mention of what the coins were valued at?

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice story. I wonder if the guy even still collects.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,969 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool. :)

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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't know, call me a cynic, but unless there are more details to this story then it just doesn't add up for me. I mean, the police enter a suspected drug dealer's home and find a stash of coins and tokens laying there (somewhere) and presume that it is the contents of a single collection and that the owner(s) of the collection would be able to identify it? I guess if there was a record of the theft filed in 1972 that had a list of items taken it would have made the match much easier, but nothing to that effect was mentioned in the article. I just don't see this tying up so neatly as the article describes.

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  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭

    TomB, you're a cynic. You do have point though.

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sweet!

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a very unlikely story, but congrats to the owner! Not sure why the collection was not disposed of or, at least, spent at face value.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,664 ✭✭✭✭✭

    way cool and great story, i like :)

  • CCC2010CCC2010 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for sharing. Yes usually druggies dispose of their loot right away in some pawnshop or what have you for a fraction of what its really worth. This one must have been a coin collector. But either way very happy here that the family recovered what is rightfully theirs.

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is interesting that the collection's owner was identified by a dog tag that was found with the stolen coins.

    Maybe we all should leave dog tags or engraved coins with collections.

    :)

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭

    A kids collection kept intact for 45 years?
    No suspect named and well beyond the statue of limitations. Hmmm....

  • goldengolden Posts: 10,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Super.

  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

    very good ending to such a story

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  • JeffersonFrogJeffersonFrog Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 15, 2018 11:13AM

    ...

    If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.

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  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭✭

    I tend to agree with TomB. I suspect there is a lot more to this story than the wpsdlocal6 article tells. Either typically shallow reporting or overzealous editing.

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 9,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not much in the way of high value in that group from what a quick read showed.

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for posting, Rick. What a great ending to a story.

    Cheers

    Bob

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, Great Story, alright! The best part was the dog tag, I think. :)

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  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, how cool is that!!! Great story...

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Would be fun to find a high-relief 22 Peace dollar, 1955 DDO, or something similar......

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Manfred the dog speaks from the grave and gets his boy's coins back. Good boy Manfred. o:)

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,514 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tom - sounds like too much fake news recently has you on edge... :lol:

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  • NorCalJackNorCalJack Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great story, glad he finally got his coins back

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  • OldIndianNutKaseOldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 16, 2017 8:55PM

    Great story, Ricko. Although it does sound improbable, it is nice to know that miracles often do happen.

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