My latest coin purchase ( a stolen coin )

The good news, I found a 1833 Capped Bust quarter on ebay last week so I bid on it and won. I checked the cert number on PCGS and saw that it was registered to someone there. I sent them an email requesting them to remove it from their set. The bad news, this morning I received an email from the Fresno police department stating that the coin was reported stolen. The good news, the original owner is getting their coin back, and that makes me happy

I know a lot of people don't like slabs or the whole registry game, but without those cert numbers on the slab and having it registered this person would probably never would have recovered this coin

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