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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,599 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 17, 2016 3:01AM

  Wow. That's some good reading. Who knows how many U.S. numismatic treasures are abroad ?

  ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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• DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 17, 2016 3:21AM

  I have heard dealers say there could be millions of Capped Bust Halves in Europe.

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,932 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 17, 2016 3:29AM

  Many years ago, while living in Germany, I found a local bank (city not named!) that had a bag of
  
  $20 US gold pieces (100 coins per bag). Mint sealed and I actually made a deal for them that the
  
  Head Cashier said okay on. When I transferred funds to do the deal the Bank VP said they would
  
  not go through with it and I was just out of luck (Cashier lost his job over this!).
  
  I remember that gold was about $180 or so at the time and my offer was well above that.
  
  If I remember correctly it was spring of '75.
  
  That was the first and only time I've seen a bag of sealed gold of any type or date.
  
  I wonder if they still have them.....
  
  So, I do know that overseas banks still have good stuff in their vaults.
  
  bob

  Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 18, 2016 12:43AM

  I have heard it stated that if some of the overseas holdings were released on the U.S. market, it could significantly impact the value of some coins....no idea if this is based on real knowledge or just theory. Cheers, RickO

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• grip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 18, 2016 1:07AM

  Great read.............. “a thief stole these coins from the thieves!”

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• Ablinky Posts: 628 ✭✭✭

  September 18, 2016 1:21AM

  Interesting little nugget on the stolen 1795 and 1803 $1's.

  Andrew Blinkiewicz-Heritage

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 18, 2016 1:24AM

  Many years ago, while living in Germany, I found a local bank (city not named!) that had a bag of
  
  $20 US gold pieces (100 coins per bag). Mint sealed
  
  
  
  I have read and heard stories about similar things, sort of like the 1970's GSA Hoards I suppose.

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• Nap Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 18, 2016 11:25AM

  I believe a number of coins in my collection of Anglo-Saxon coins can trace their origins to Charles Winn.
  
  This is the only one however that I can conclusively trace to the Lord St. Oswald collection.

  My medieval coin collection

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• breakdown Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 18, 2016 11:45AM

  Lot 140 now that is a cool story. Can a coin that prominent expensive find its way into an auction or even a slab? Or was its theft not that well-known?

  "Look up, old boy, and see what you get." -William Bonney.

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