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To: lepton; Obama_Is_A_Feminist

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”


26 posted on 02/27/2014 1:42:11 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

The condition of the coins and arrangement in the cans indicates they were collected and stored over time. One can holds the oldest coins, and others were stashed in ascending chronological order.


46 posted on 02/27/2014 2:12:15 PM PST by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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