On this week's episode of Pawn Stars.......

The best part is that the coin counting machine likely charged a 9%+ fee to count the money.

Change you can believe in?

TFA does say worth "thousands". This could be a collection worth 4x the face value- which isn't especially tragic to lose.

Necessary: Idiot kids did this to my parents--broke in, found the coin collection (after skipping over being able to grab the digital SLR sitting on the desk, all the jewelry, etc.), and proceeded to sit around popping all the gold coins (skipping the platinum ones) out of their plastic casings. What was once worth $10,000 because it was an unbroken line of mint coins suddenly turned into pocket change.

Pissed us off all the more because they weren't even good at their jobs. You can respect some thieves for knowing what they're looking at and not actually just destroying money.

/CSB

Well, to be accurate, none of the gold coins would ever be classified as pocket change. On the other hand, anyone who steals something unique (or even just precious) to convert it to scrap, deserves to be used as compost.

Necessary: Idiot kids did this to my parents--broke in, found the coin collection (after skipping over being able to grab the digital SLR sitting on the desk, all the jewelry, etc.), and proceeded to sit around popping all the gold coins (skipping the platinum ones) out of their plastic casings. What was once worth $10,000 because it was an unbroken line of mint coins suddenly turned into pocket change.

Pissed us off all the more because they weren't even good at their jobs. You can respect some thieves for knowing what they're looking at and not actually just destroying money.

/CSB

Ugh any kind of thievery pisses me off so much. I am completely for a mandatory death sentence for such types of people

/has had his car stolen...broken into...vandalized

Had a coin collection stolen in high school.
Punks that did it got nailed hard.
Then, I got out of the military, and ran into them, still boosting crap at a local mall.
Need not say, it was not a happy reunion.

Years later, my junky soon to be ex did the same thing.
Stuffed it up her nose.
She's a bag lady now.

Still have a nice collection, though.
It's growing.

The real deal is letting them know what the net worth was once they squandered it.
That, both times, was precious.

skinink: Amateurs.
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Suddenly I'm in the mood for some vinegar pie.

Who stores their valuable coin collection in a shed???

My best friend growing up pilfered his fathers coin and bill collection to buy Super Big Gulps. By the time we discovered weed, he had burned through the entire collection.

Remember folks: if they can just pick up the safe and leave with it, it's not doing you much good. Light safes need to be bolted to something less portable.

there4igraham: Who stores their valuable coin collection in a shed???

They were in pair of safes. But yeah. Ever hear of a little thing called a safe deposit box?

And to move this even further into dumbass territory: the head thief was his SON.

"It was an inheritance, which made it even worse because I lost an inheritance that was meant to go forward for my children and grandchildren,"

Idiot was going to end up with it eventually anyway.

haha I had found an old coin purse filled with american quarters in amongst some stuff I got from a deceased relative recently. I checked the dates and they were all 50's early 60's so I assumed they were only worth 25 cents. I spent about 160 of those quarters at gas stations, etc. Only after they were all spent did I discover that pre-65 american quarters are 90% silver :P that is over 5 grams of silver in each quarter! I gave away over $800 in silver for $40 :P

Necessary: Idiot kids did this to my parents--broke in, found the coin collection (after skipping over being able to grab the digital SLR sitting on the desk, all the jewelry, etc.), and proceeded to sit around popping all the gold coins (skipping the platinum ones) out of their plastic casings. What was once worth $10,000 because it was an unbroken line of mint coins suddenly turned into pocket change.

Pissed us off all the more because they weren't even good at their jobs. You can respect some thieves for knowing what they're looking at and not actually just destroying money.

/CSB

Argh. My parents are in the process of moving, leaving...er....some TOTALLY USELESS ITEMS around. This is a big fear of mine.

Rhode Island Ship Tokens?

FTFA CORBETT, OR (KPTV) -

Multnomah County Sheriff's Deputies are searching for a man they said stole tools, two safes and valuable coins from a shed at a Corbett home belonging to his own father.

...

"It was an inheritance, which made it even worse because I lost an inheritance that was meant to go forward for my children and grandchildren," he said.

Well...technically it DID go to one of his children...

egg_mcmuffin: Ok so a heroin addict gets his hands on some coins worth a few thousand dollars, and had to choose between haggling with a coin dealer over coins, showing his id and undoubtedly getting caught, or putting them in a coin counter anonymously and getting 30% of their value instantly and being able to get high NOW. I don't understand the outrage or why this is unexpected. The coins held no sentimental value to the thieves, so why would they give a f about their actual value? This happens every day when they steal tvs, stereos, or whatever, they sell it for a fraction of the value, but that's never news. Other than the fact that they somehow got caught, sounds pretty smart to me. The stupid ones were the owners of the coins for having them in a place where they could be stolen. It's news that stolen merchandise isn't brokered in legitimate fashion for full value? When it's stolen it can't be sold without showing id and getting caught. It's naive to think otherwise.

Here's a thought. Instant death sentence.

Completely serious

Oznog: TFA does say worth "thousands". This could be a collection worth 4x the face value- which isn't especially tragic to lose.

Have you been living in a closet the last 10 years? Silver coins with no numismatic value are fetching 20x face value right now.

Coinflation.com

SoCalSurfer: Here's a thought. Instant death sentence.

Completely serious


To be fair, the first couple of punks got some time to meditate in traction back in the 70's.
The ex got sold to a shiate in Iran.

egg_mcmuffin: Ok so a heroin addict gets his hands on some coins worth a few thousand dollars, and had to choose between haggling with a coin dealer over coins, showing his id and undoubtedly getting caught, or putting them in a coin counter anonymously and getting 30% of their value instantly and being able to get high NOW. I don't understand the outrage or why this is unexpected. The coins held no sentimental value to the thieves, so why would they give a f about their actual value? This happens every day when they steal tvs, stereos, or whatever, they sell it for a fraction of the value, but that's never news. Other than the fact that they somehow got caught, sounds pretty smart to me. The stupid ones were the owners of the coins for having them in a place where they could be stolen. It's news that stolen merchandise isn't brokered in legitimate fashion for full value? When it's stolen it can't be sold without showing id and getting caught. It's naive to think otherwise.

Working at Burger King as a teen, noticing old coins in change that some customers spent was one of the few joys of the job. I always figured that anybody buying a Whopper with buffalo nickels and Indian heads had obviously stolen them and could care less about any collectible worth.

"The obvious answer that the crooks were idiots, just simply an idiot," said Dan Johnson, Sr. "To not know the value of what they had taken, just to get pocket change for it. Just really a stupid person. Makes me feel good he was a stupid person and didn't realize what he had."

Yeah, not smart like the guy who stores safes and valuables OUTSIDE IN A SHED.

vudukungfu: SoCalSurfer: Here's a thought. Instant death sentence.

Completely serious


To be fair, the first couple of punks got some time to meditate in traction back in the 70's.
The ex got sold to a shiate in Iran.

Okay....you gotta explain that last part...are you saying I can sell my ex girlfriends into slavery in Iran? Cause I'm in!

SoCalSurfer: are you saying I can sell my ex girlfriends into slavery in Iran? Cause I'm in!

Their law forbids slavery. It has to be your wife at the time of sale.

I have about three hundred fifty wheat pennies...I wonder how much they're worth.

belhade: I have about three hundred fifty wheat pennies...I wonder how much they're worth.

$5

SoCalSurfer: vudukungfu: SoCalSurfer: Here's a thought. Instant death sentence.

Completely serious


To be fair, the first couple of punks got some time to meditate in traction back in the 70's.
The ex got sold to a shiate in Iran.

Okay....you gotta explain that last part...are you saying I can sell my ex girlfriends into slavery in Iran? Cause I'm in!

No, he means that he likes to fark goats and sold it to a passing herder.

egg_mcmuffin: Ok so a heroin addict gets his hands on some coins worth a few thousand dollars, and had to choose between haggling with a coin dealer over coins, showing his id and undoubtedly getting caught, or putting them in a coin counter anonymously and getting 30% of their value instantly and being able to get high NOW. I don't understand the outrage or why this is unexpected. The coins held no sentimental value to the thieves, so why would they give a f about their actual value? This happens every day when they steal tvs, stereos, or whatever, they sell it for a fraction of the value, but that's never news. Other than the fact that they somehow got caught, sounds pretty smart to me. The stupid ones were the owners of the coins for having them in a place where they could be stolen. It's news that stolen merchandise isn't brokered in legitimate fashion for full value? When it's stolen it can't be sold without showing id and getting caught. It's naive to think otherwise.

Right on man. Like, it was totally my moms fault for hiding her pain medication in a place she KNEW i would find! fark her. She's stupid one!

phalamir: he means that he likes to fark goats and sold it to a passing herder

He was a Sheik, but she did do a mean Stevie Nicks impersonation.

He let her know what her (cheap) price was when the Mullah bartered her for a crate of figs and three camels, though.

Green eyed blondes with bad ink are cheap.

bdub77: I'm just going to come out and say it. If you are physically going into people's houses and stealing shiat, you are retarded.

If I wanted to be a criminal, I would be a straight up identity thief. I would be hacking into people's computers with keyloggers, creating spambots and transferring tons of money to myself. I would be your living nightmare. I would probably live in another country too.

I would also never do this because it's horrible and I know people who have been brutalized by shiat like that.

Same penalty....but before death comes that ancient Chinese torture where you are staging in a cage on a pile of bricks with sharp bamboo sticks pointed upwards around your neck, and every day a brick is removed.

Again, completely serious. People who steal people's identities and steal property deserve the worst punishments

FTA: Deputies said Dan Johnson, Jr., along with two other suspects, broke into the outbuildings on Christmas.

Why three guys? This is how criminals get caught: one of their asshole buddies walks down the street smoking a joint, gets busted by a cop, they mention the robbery and insinuate that he did it even though they have no reason to believe he did, and he spills his worthless guts like the biatch that he is. Do it alone, and if you don't have the balls to do it alone don't do it at all. Criminals tend to be pretty stupid, I guess.

fusillade762: there4igraham: Who stores their valuable coin collection in a shed???

They were in pair of safes. But yeah. Ever hear of a little thing called a safe deposit box?

And to move this even further into dumbass territory: the head thief was his SON.

"It was an inheritance, which made it even worse because I lost an inheritance that was meant to go forward for my children and grandchildren,"

Idiot was going to end up with it eventually anyway.

Um, that sentence says "an inheritance" not "his inheritance"

belhade: I have about three hundred fifty wheat pennies...I wonder how much they're worth.

Generally, wheat pennies go for 2-3 cents each, since they're usually 40-50's era. If they're older than that, or in really good condition, ymmv...

/Why yes, I am a coin collector, and I am really getting a kick...

Most criminals are complete idiots. News at 11

There was a guy in England a while back (and I'm sure it has happened elsewhere) that stole grandpa's old double barrel shotgun, sawed it off short, committed a robbery, and got the equivalent of $200 or so.

The shotgun was a one-of-a-kind custom Purdy worth about $100k ....

I worked at a game room in 1980 and some kid was having trouble with the token machine. it wouldn't read the 1935 $1.00 silver certificate he had stolen from a neighbor's house. so I traded a dollar from my wallet and went on with life. a half hour later, same problem, this time with a 2 dollar bill. my manager buys the bill from him and the kid goes off to play some games. we get to talking, and decide that something fishy is up. the manager calls a detective with Daytona PD and, sure enough, they had a recent robbery of a bill collection. detective says it's going to take him 20 minutes to get there, try and keep the kid in the arcade.

I went over to whatever machine he was playing, told him that my manager is a big collector of $2.00 bills and wanted to thank him for being able to add another to his collection, I opened up the coin door and gave the kid 20 credits.

When the detective got there, we pointed the kid out and then I threw the circuit breaker for that game. After a short interview in the office, the detective determined that, yes, this was the thief he was looking for and arrested him. No one ever asked to get the bills we bought for face value back.

/csb

"The obvious answer that the crooks were idiots, just simply an idiot,"


Gee, ya think?

SumoJeb: haha I had found an old coin purse filled with american quarters in amongst some stuff I got from a deceased relative recently. I checked the dates and they were all 50's early 60's so I assumed they were only worth 25 cents. I spent about 160 of those quarters at gas stations, etc. Only after they were all spent did I discover that pre-65 american quarters are 90% silver :P that is over 5 grams of silver in each quarter! I gave away over $800 in silver for $40 :P

I've collected a few hundred silver quarters over the years at various retail jobs. I always keep a few quarters on my desk at work so I can buy them out of the tills as I come across them. Don't even have to look for them, they make a very distinctive sound when mixed in a handful of change.

LS1Bird: Oznog: TFA does say worth "thousands". This could be a collection worth 4x the face value- which isn't especially tragic to lose.

Have you been living in a closet the last 10 years? Silver coins with no numismatic value are fetching 20x face value right now.

Coinflation.com

Last 10 years? Silver coins have been at a premium for 45 years now.

i.r.id10t: There was a guy in England a while back (and I'm sure it has happened elsewhere) that stole grandpa's old double barrel shotgun, sawed it off short, committed a robbery, and got the equivalent of $200 or so.

The shotgun was a one-of-a-kind custom Purdy worth about $100k ....



Wot, you mean guns that fire shot?

Oh you are the clever one, aren't you?

The average house burglar is a drug addict or alcoholic, hardly a criminal mastermind.

I know a guy with a small gun collection. He has some very valuable Colt single action revolvers that were made in the late 1800's. The burglars who broke into his house scattered the valuable revolvers around on the floor but stole his Glock. The revolvers are worth 5 or 6 times what the Glock was worth.