Saddle Ridge - This date run might "damage" the Dimmick theft theory.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 4, 2014 12:38AM

  That 64 graded coin is sure nice..Cheers, RickO

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• IndianHeadMan Posts: 826 ✭

  March 4, 2014 1:42AM

  I've seen rust marks on a few of the Saddle ridge coins. How can they be graded straight if that's the case?

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• MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭

  March 4, 2014 1:56AM

  
  
  << <i>I've seen rust marks on a few of the Saddle ridge coins. How can they be graded straight if that's the case? >>
  
  
  
  Restoration is our friend.
  
  I am staying away from this group of coins.

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 4, 2014 4:03AM

  The whole "Dimmick theory" goes out the window (for me) when one considers the very long range of dates included. I have a tough time imagining how or where the earlier coins were secreted while the entire group was being accumulated. It sounds semi-silly to me.
  
  Correlation is not causation; even less so is coincidence. Why would the Mint have such a broad date range on hand? Why would these coins be sent to the Mint to be melted? Why else would they be there? Why would "seeds and stems" still be around in the Mint vaults? I'm much weaker on this kind of thing than in some other areas. Anyone conversant with SF Mint practices to fill us in?
  
  Probably these thoughts were considered in one of the earlier threads about this. Others have spent worthwhile time in doing research. I'm too lazy to have read all the threads. The palpable relish with which some here will attach themselves to anything with a hint of malfeasance, let alone conspiracy ! ! ! , discourages me from attending well to some threads I grok to be of this nature.
  
  I can barely wait for the government experts to expound.
  
  TDN's remark in a different Saddle River post about considering Occam's Razor seems quite relevant.
  
  I would say I "know" the Switt 33's were taken out of the safe deposit box within the interim between the purported storage and discovery, but all I really know is that a dealer of impeccable honesty told me he held four of these together one afternoon in Izzy's parlor.

  "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell

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• GeorgeKellogg Posts: 1,251 ✭✭

  March 4, 2014 4:40AM

  I'm keeping an open mind about it, until the facts are disclosed.
  
  Perhaps Dimmick thought that he would attract less attention if he focused on older bags, long stored in the vault, rather than the current year bags, which had been recently counted and stored. Also, the area of the vault where the current year coins were being stored would frequently have mint personnel going in and out, thereby inviting discovery of the theft.

  "Clamorous for Coin"

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• dbcoin Posts: 2,200 ✭✭

  March 4, 2014 4:42AM

  
  
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  << <i>I've seen rust marks on a few of the Saddle ridge coins. How can they be graded straight if that's the case? >>
  
  
  
  Restoration is our friend.
  
  I am staying away from this group of coins. >>
  
  
  
  Is it possible these coins will turn in the holders over time? If they do, can they just be restored again?

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• PRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

  March 4, 2014 4:52AM

  Gets more interesting all the time.
  How many CC Silver Dollars were 'lost', or forgotten in a vault for nearly one Century?

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