Royal Thanks to everyone for their kind comments! It is really nice to get so many 90%ers, considering there was a month or two of a drought of them earlier this year.
KT heard of a sad situation for one of His Majesty's friends, and former co-worker, back eons ago when KT had to work for a living. This lady had possession of a large number of silver dollars, many silver halves, and also silver quarters, that she had mostly inherited from her parents. Her brother owned half interest in them, but she kept them together as a collection.
KT was in need at the time of some 50 silver dollars and made her a generous offer for that many, but the brother did not want to sell, so she declined the offer. Recently she was in the throws of a new engagement and then a move to Houston Texas to be with her fiancé. She did not have these coins locked up in the bank, and also did not think to take them with her when she made the first of several trips to move her furnishings, clothes and other personal possessions. As you can guess, someone broke into her apartment and took all of her silver coins, a sterling dinner set, and other valuables. Of course she was devastated and immediately reported the losses to the local police. The Police in their normal course of work, checked the pawn shops and discovered some of her silver dollars had been dumped by a known burglary suspect. She had to pay nearly $1000 to get her coins back from the pawn shop...and came to KT requesting info on someone local who could give a numistmatic evaluation of the recovered coins, since if they appraised at over $1000 it would be a much more serious crime and the fellow could get some jail time.
KT had a recommendation for her for a person who could give a written appraisal.
Later KT began thinking about the situation...this sorry rascal probably went to a local bank and dumped all the quarters and halves, but knew enough to know he could not do that with the silver dollars, thus the pawn angle to his game. If this assumption is correct, Kt thinks there may be a few local boxes coming out in the next month or two, that will be loaded with silver halves and silver quarters....KT will have no chance at those quarters, but those halves are in His Royal Sights!! These coins would not have been dumped at the local grocery store machines as they reject silver.
Interesting situation and KT is certainly going to keep His Royal Eyes open...If KT makes some large hits, especially with a large percentage of Franklins and Walkers in the next couple of months, He will have to decide whether to pay her a percentage of salvage for some of them or not. No way to prove they are hers, she had no inventory of what all she had.
A strong lesson to be learned from this situation. Keep your goodies under lock and key, keep an accurate inventory and if the coins are slabbed or graded, keep a value on those separate from your silver cache coins.
Best of luck to all in the Forum and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Castle high on the Royal Hill....