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Originally Posted by birdman42
A couple of the coins might go for more than a million each at auction. Kind of hard to stay under the radar with items like that.
Hooray for social media! A spokesperson for the Mint says they have no records of such a theft. (It's possible those records were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.) And, as the article says, the items in the hoard don't match up with what was supposedly stolen. A "mint-sealed bag" would have contained all newly-minted coins. I've owned both mint-sealed bags of coins and coins in a bag that came from the mint. Not the same thing.
Bill
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I wouldn't sell the million dollar ones ( I wasn't aware there were rarities in the collection) for a very long time. I would start from the bottom up.
Regarding why nobody ever came back to claim them, there could be a simple answer: he died before he had a chance to return.