How to identify your collection in case of a robbery.

It was just by habit that I register all of my major coins or collections as soon as I receive them in the mail. Example I just received my 2015 proof 70 ER $50 gold buffalo in the mail and I immediately registered it with NGC and took the picture. Three days on June 30 I was rushed to the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond for compound fracture of T 12 and L2. I was placed in intensive care unit for 10 days and then Neurosurgery Department. At which time they perform surgery infused my back from T 10 to S1.

While all this was going on with me, my stepdaughter and her husband were busy stealing The 2015 gold Buffalo proof that I just recorded with NGC. They managed to take this coin to a local coin shop less than 5 miles from my house, and sell the coin for money. My husband was cleaning out his car, they were using, and found the transaction receipt from the sell of the coin. I happen to have a picture of the coin and sent it to husband from my hospital room. He went to the coin shop and the coin was on display for sale. They immediately put the coin up in their safe so they could have it available for the police.

The other reason to record the graded coins, is that when I finally came home for good on 7/28/2015, we realized that they had stolen our coin key room room and stole over 80% of our graded Coins and rolls of American Silver Eagles. I was able to give a print out of the NGC list to to the Officer in charge of the investigation.

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