The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 29, July 10, 2005, Article 15

ON RETURNING STOLEN COINS

Regarding last week's story on the stolen stamp collection
recovered after 20 years, Nick Graver writes: "A good friend
had part of his stolen coin collection retrieved due to the
inclusion of his specialized Half Dollar varieties. It seems
specialist collectors know about most top collections, and
when certain rare Die-Break and variety combinations appear
on the market, there is only one home in the world that those
exact coins could have come from!"

[That was certainly the case with Jules Reiver and U.S. silver
varieties. I'm sure the same is true of early copper and other
coin varieties. Tracing paper money can be even easier if the
owners record serial numbers. I don't have many U.S. notes
in my collections, but every serial number is dutifully recorded
in a safe place. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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