Lost and Found!
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Given all the posts on losing coins, I thought it would be nice to have a thread on the coins we've found that we lost 
1879 Grant Parade Medal - J-CM-18 - NGC MS65 POP 1/1 - lost 2 months
The following was affected by Covid. I started having a holding period for my mail after I read Covid contaminants could last several days. I'd leave pieces out for several days before opening them. This is one of the first packages I stored this way, before I had a system, and I "lost" it for 2 months. I wasn't sure if I had received it and thought about filing a missing page claim. Luckily, I placed my trust in the system and I found the package 2 months later!
This was a relatively inexpensive US Mint medal but it is a pop 1/1 MS65 with only a MSS65PL being higher. So while it wouldn't have been a big loss financially, I still wanted it and would have preferred the medal much more than the money.
1793 Cent Gallery Mint O/S 1961 Half Dollar - lost 5 years
This is one I actually "lost" for like 5 years after moving. I knew exactly where it was at the old place and had no idea where I put it while moving. It's one of my first Gallery Mint pieces so I'm happy to be reunited with it.
Comments
Nice Color than Nice Error!
Nice Find (Pun intended) Lol
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.I lost a High Relief Saint that I had won in an auction, Just by chance years later when getting ready to throw out some old papers I came across in the pile of papers ready to be discarded the mailer envelope with the coin still in it.
I have told this story before (some years ago). I had a treasured $5 gold Indian (1909D) in a 2x2... Acquired while I was living in Seattle. A few years later, I retired and moved East to NYS. I was careful (I thought) in packing my coins and other valuables. After getting settled in my new home, and about a year after arrival, I wanted to show a friend the coin. I could not find it. Checked the boxes, reviewed my packing lists, it was nowhere. Panic, pain, sorrow. About eighteen months later, I was looking for some specific ammunition I knew I had, and pulled out that packed box. As I removed the sought after material - WOW!!! - There was my coin, in the 2x2, between two boxes of cartridges. I still cannot figure out how it got there.... but I keep it close now.
Cheers, RickO