Bicentennial Coins Stolen

05/30/2008 

The Mitchell County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public to be on the lookout for “collector” coins. A few days ago a larceny occurred in the Spruce Pine area and the thief took what’s described as “collector quarters” valued around $1 thousand. Mitchell Chief Deputy Donald Street thinks the thief may try to spend these quarters in area businesses. The quarters are wrapped in $100 rolls of “drummer boy” bicentennial quarters; state quarters are wrapped individually by state and Indian Princess Sacagawea gold dollars also wrapped individually. All the wrapped quarters would have on the side of the package “bicentennial;” the state quarter’s package would have the state abbreviation and the gold dollars wrapped as well. If you have any information about the theft of the collector quarters, call the Mitchell County Sheriff’s Department at 688-3982


                                               

                            Image of what the Bicentennial "Drummer                      Image of an 
Indian Princess Sacagawea gold dollar
                            Boy" coin would look like.