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Coin dealer robbed at gunpoint of $20,000 in rare coins

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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
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    GoldudeGoldude Posts: 460
    It was meimage
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Well, that certainly does suck.image
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    MonstavetMonstavet Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    Do people really take $20,000 worth of coins to a flea market? Feel bad for the guy.
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    monstermanmonsterman Posts: 797
    easy plea once he gets caught

    insanity....only an insane person would tatoo themselves on their shaved head with a red scorpion.....i think thats pop 1

    monsterman
    my goal is to find the monsters and i go where they are but i sometimes miss some.... so if you have any and want to sell IM THE BUYER FOR THEM!!!

    out of rockets ...out of bullets...switching to harsh language
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry to hear it. If any of the coins can be listed here, we forum members can be on the lookout for them.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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    fcfc Posts: 12,805 ✭✭✭
    goldude, you must be joking?

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    MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I've been held at gunpoint before- I always hate to hear about dillweeds pulling that crap on people......... image
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    mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If any of the coins can be listed here, we forum members can be on the lookout for them. >>



    We can try that, but if it's like most fleamarkets, there won't be anything you could exactly use as an identifier...

    "Uh, yeah, Officer, there's a guy in my store with three dozen common date Morgans in Very Fine! I'll try to stall him here until you can make it, OK?"

    In seriousness, that sucks. I hope they get their man, and quick.
    mirabela
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    ttownttown Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    A good reason to carry a .45 c00cked and locked on you at all times. Idiots have been robbing banks and little stores here killing people. I never plan on any problems but I'm able to respond to any threat, these scum bags want something for nothing. A CCW is a must in this day and age of drive by shootings and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.image

    Dang spell checker didn't like one of my words....
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    mirabela---Slabbed coins have serial numbers. I doubt these guys are smart enough to crack them out before trying to sell them. Maybe goldude had his raw coins in holders labeled in a certain fashion making them identifiable. Obviously junk silver is hard to trace.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    ARCOARCO Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW Goldude!! At least you are alive! What a turn of sh#tty luck. Your car breaks down and you get mugged by some thugs who recognized you from the flea market?

    I am very sorry to hear it. I must have been a harrowing experience.

    Tyler

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    coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭


    << <i>WOW Goldude!! At least you are alive! What a turn of sh#tty luck. Your car breaks down and you get mugged by some thugs who recognized you from the flea market? >>

    Tyler (and others), I think he was "joking", though not in good taste, if that was the case. My sincere apologies if I am mistaken.
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    fcfc Posts: 12,805 ✭✭✭
    someone just check goldude's website.

    more than likely it is not based in FL. if it is, odds just got a lot better.

    i do not remember the website.

    plus, when was the last time you saw gold coins at a flea market? onesies, twosies.

    not i friends. not i. and i actually go to several each summer.
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    coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Hi golddude, are you in Phx? >>



    << <i>yes Scottsdale Az it's 200 degrees today >>

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    GoldudeGoldude Posts: 460
    Good thing about Arizona if your robbed at gunpoint crooks think twice, knowing everyone here is packing a Glock, never leave home without itimage
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    GoldudeGoldude Posts: 460
    Sometimes i feel robbed when i have to sell 64Saints for $20 over costimage
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    stev32kstev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭
    Goldude: I think you just lost a lot creditabilty on this forum. That was not a good joke.
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    GoldudeGoldude Posts: 460
    stev i joke about everything, and besides my mother told me i lost credibility when she gave birth to meimage
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    ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "The coin dealer, identified only as Roger to protect his identity, nearly lost his life on Monday after a day at the flea market. He was headed home on County Road 475 when his car broke down. Roger was looking under the hood when a vehicle carrying three men pulled up behind. One of the men walked up and Roger thought he was going to help out"

    Without knowing more details it is a safe bet that the three people rigged the car to breakdown.....this is a common practice with thieves who follow dealers from shows.....

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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That really does suck. The coin dealers lucky to still be alive.
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    Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    It's hard to believe that somebody would be so careless & nonchalant as to carry around stuff that valuable with any means to protect themselves.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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