Lost Pocket Piece
hedgehog847
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My wife totally scorned me when I said I was going to carry a pocket piece. She said that I was going over the edge. She said, "You'll probably lose it in a month."
Well, I think she put a hex on me because it lasted two months in my pocket....and then I think I sent it to the dry cleaner!
It was a 1900 O Morgan. Nothing special, but it was cool to have something in my pocket that was 105 years old. Oh well, so much for carrying a pocket piece.
Well, I think she put a hex on me because it lasted two months in my pocket....and then I think I sent it to the dry cleaner!
It was a 1900 O Morgan. Nothing special, but it was cool to have something in my pocket that was 105 years old. Oh well, so much for carrying a pocket piece.
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Now go find another coin to place in your pocket.
Herb
I now carry two Ike dollars and there is little chance that I'll spend one of those.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Years ago a coin dealer I knew started carrying 1792 half disme as a pocket piece. He had the piece in a coin capsule for protection, but still it was in his pocket rattling around with his pocket change. The coin was not among the finest known specimens. Although it had the sharpness of a Fine, it did have a small hole at the top. I offered him $1,600 for the piece (this was in the early to mid 1980s), but he refused my repeated offers.
Sure enough, a couple months after he started carrying it, he lost the coin “somewhere in the woods” while he was working. Make that one less surviving 1792 half disme, unless someone should get lucky with a metal detector.
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<< <i>It could be A LOT WORSE!
Years ago a coin dealer I knew started carrying 1792 half disme as a pocket piece. He had the piece in a coin capsule for protection, but still it was in his pocket rattling around with his pocket change. The coin was not among the finest known specimens. Although it had the sharpness of a Fine, it did have a small hole at the top. I offered him $1,600 for the piece (this was in the early to mid 1980s), but he refused my repeated offers.
Sure enough, a couple months after he started carrying it, he lost the coin “somewhere in the woods?while he was working. Make that one less surviving 1792 half disme, unless someone should get lucky with a metal detector.
That is really sad.
<< <i>Years ago a coin dealer I knew started carrying 1792 half disme as a pocket piece. >>
That's sad that he lost it, but also pretty stupid.
It's not the only 1792 half disme sleepin' out there in the dirt. We detectorists know where a lot of the missing rarities went. A lot of them are still there, waiting to be found.
least one with not much value.
I have a 2000-P sac that I pulled from a new roll in 2000. I've had it in my pocket ever since. It's been with me all over the world. It's gone from a solid MS-65+ to about a G-4 in 5 years. It's worth exactly $1 to anyone else but if I ever lost it I would totally freak out!
I really like this coin better now. The baby's head is flattening out like a pancake!