An enormous gold nugget was reported stolen Thursday from the Lengthy Seashore Conference Middle, spurring a proposal of a $10,000 reward.
Bob Campbell, the proprietor of a coin store in Salt Lake Metropolis, stated he introduced the gold nugget to the Lengthy Seashore Expo — a present that gathers sellers of cash and different collectibles — to promote for greater than $80,000. He stated its worth exceeds its sheer content material in gold, as an “authentic 49er nugget” believed to this point again to the Gold Rush.
“They are going to lose cash in the event that they soften it. It has collector worth,” Campbell stated. The roughly 27-ounce nugget was concerning the dimension of a goose egg, he added, and specimens of that dimension are “exceedingly uncommon.”
Video captured by one other coin supplier on the occasion exhibits somebody showing to press on the show case, then pocket one thing. Campbell faulted a defect within the case that allowed the thief to wiggle his hand inside.
Lengthy Seashore police stated they’re investing the theft, which was reported earlier than midday Thursday. Campbell can also be passing out fliers with a photograph of the gold nugget and the alleged thief and personally providing a $10,000 reward hinging on the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.
“We’re hoping that this info will get out” and perhaps “one in all his mates will rat him out,” Campbell stated.
He urged anybody with info to name his Utah store at (801) 467-8636 or to contact the Lengthy Seashore Police Division relating to case quantity 24-28245.
