[lepton]

Not if they were stolen property.

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That’s not in contention.

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Couple should’ve learned smelting and melted these coins down into crude bars.

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Given that the value of the metal is trivial compared to the value of the coins, that’d be an awful idea.

[lepton]

Apparently it is in contention that they were stolen.

“a previously undiscovered bounty that an employee of the San Francisco Mint was convicted of stealing in 1901”