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[Scoops Novel]

Assume a master thief. They have insider information, and all thier equipment.

Whatever they steal, must be stolen when properly guarded.

[scriver]

the future

[Frumple]

Presumably a primordial hypnotoad, who could then be convinced to bring all other valuable things to the thief.

[Dostoevsky]

Value is always a subjective thing, but presumably an object of critical religious importance from a time when it was created. E.g. 'fresh' Dead Sea Scrolls. Of course, proving provenance is an issue as well as altering the timeline.

[dragdeler]

Historically? Land 

[MrRoboto75]

Thief goes back in time to steal something, but when they get there, its already stolen!

[Dramatic Sting]

[Grim Portent]

Probably something important that's about to be destroyed or lost in some fashion prior to being stolen. There's a lot of objects of historical significance that have been destroyed or been lost over the years, lots of big disasters that destroyed libraries, cities ransacked, relics melted down for materials and so on. Any such item would be of great value in the modern day if you could prove it was real.

[dragdeler]

Heh. Since you don't disrupt the historical continuinity too much by making it dissappear, especially if you time it well, you can even show up in the modern day like yup I found this item we thought lost. Basically any halfway plausible lie about finding it in your attic or some place private would do too. How could somebody disprove it? Fuuuck you need to artificially age it though, I mean it doesn't have to be artificial aging but that's a though nut, I guess you could correct errors though.

It's nitpicky on the word valuable too... Very clever. Not sure you would be able to make monetary gains with historical artifacts.

[Iduno]

A country? Replacing or adding a document showing you're the most "legitimate" heir to a country when you return might be useful, although that's sort of the opposite of stealing. Land rights to a valuable mineral claim would also work.

[King Zultan]

That big computer thing and all related blueprints and schematics that they built during WW2 that was used to decode messages from the enigma machine.

[wierd]

Library books from Alexandria

[delphonso]

Steal baby Hitler - you could probably sell him for a lot.

[voliol]

I wonder if documents and such would be taken seriously, especially if non-artificial aging is not an alternative (because by leaving your stolen object in the past hoping to retrieve it in the "present" there is a risk someone else gets to it first). If you showed up the Ark of the Covenant, who would be willing to buy it, and for what price, when it is seemingly just a replica? And documents showing you're a rightful heir of something also have the problem of . There are already plenty of folks claiming to be the true roman emperor, tsar, or king of France (and those categories are also overlapping), but modern states don't take them seriously, because why would them? You would have to find a state , and whose government is also welcoming of putting some rando in a position just because of some old document.

[TamerVirus]

Wikipedia-List of missing treasures

[MrRoboto75]

and whose government is also welcoming of putting some rando in a position just because of some old document.

What if a moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me?