ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies in Orlando, Fla., are searching for masked robbers who stole about $4 million in rare coins from a numismatics show at a hotel.
The band of masked robbers took the coins at knife point Saturday during the Florida United Numismatists' annual coin show and convention, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday. The robbers threatened an employee of the Minnesota dealer in charge of the coins while he was unloading them in the parking lot of the Peabody Hotel.
The custodian of the coins said the most rare pieces in the stolen collection are a set of 10 U.S. coins from 1843 that ranges from a half penny to a $10 dollar gold coin. The custodian said the set was insured for $2 million by Lloyds of London.
"Nobody would have thought they would have been so brazen," Robert Brueggeman, executive director of the Professional Numismatists Guild and owner of Positive Protection, which coordinated security at the convention, said of the knife-point robbery.
