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Dont ja just love when you misplace something

yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭✭✭

Only $30 before fees, but it's just jumping on my last nerve.

Last thing I want to image tonight.

About 18 proof dimes. I was going going to hold back the pointed 64's and list the remainder at melt.

What is the longest you lost something? Anything major?

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  • LazybonesLazybones Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I lost a P01 Hawaiian. It was in a small box of heavily worn classic commems. Lost it about fifteen years ago.

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  • TURBOTURBO Posts: 494 ✭✭✭

    The one thing that sticks out in my mind is I lost my wallet years ago when I was a kid and found it about ten years later while cleaning under the basement steps covered in dust and dirt. It was pretty cool finding it again with a few bucks in it!! :)

  • coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had a raw 1914-d Lincoln go missing for about 5 years when it turned up in a junk drawer.
    Still waiting for a half dozen raw Franklins to show up.

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2021 11:29AM

    I lost the key to the back gate down at the lower end of the ranch years ago. Never have found it. Cut the chain off with an acetylene torch last Thursday. Now there's kids racing around on motorcycles down there and some family is having a Sunday picnic. Little Hydrant Joey says to call the police. I say I need a new lock.

  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,630 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Worse is when you think you lost something and later figure out later that a FORMER friend of yours stole it.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have told this story before... but when I relocated from Seattle to NYS, somehow lost my $5 1909 gold Indian. For two years +.....Then one day, while looking for some old ammo in one box that had been sealed since the move.... There it was.... No idea how it got there.... Just really happy to have found it. Cheers, RickO

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I misplaced a PR 1960 DDO-002 cent I cherried 20 or more years ago. Still haven't found it.

  • BustDMsBustDMs Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I have told this story before... but when I relocated from Seattle to NYS, somehow lost my $5 1909 gold Indian. For two years +.....Then one day, while looking for some old ammo in one box that had been sealed since the move.... There it was.... No idea how it got there.... Just really happy to have found it. Cheers, RickO

    Blame it on some Jar Head........

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  • OldIndianNutKaseOldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I lost a PCGS blue box containing my toned Lincoln PR collection from 1936 to 1958. I feared that I might have temporarily have hid in the trash can instead of putting it back in the safe. Went missing over a year until I found it one day in a shoe box in my hidden closet. Nothing like feeling like a total idiot for over a year........

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 33,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2021 4:03PM

    I lost this one in a move. My other half found it for me a few years later along with some NASA certificates. I still don't know where they were but teamwork is great! :)

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 8,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never lost a coin for more than a few minutes, but in the 60's I bought at a store closeout that was going out of business, two knives a case xx two blade yellow handle and a Puma Hunter's Pal hunting/skinning knife for under $10 a piece. Never used them but they mysteriously became missing shortly thereafter. Looked and looked, but no good. About 15 years later I moved home to West Virginia and as I and my Dad were carrying a sleeper couch into the front door the case knife fell out, I was so excited and when we tried to open the couch it wouldn't open and we found the Puma in its green plastic case wedged in the hinge mechanism. Neither had ever been thrown nor used. after much thought, I remembered sitting in the den in Bristol, VA before going into the Air Force bragging to a friend about the purchase, sitting on that very couch. Unbelieveable, as uncountable how many times that sleeper had been opened and closed and they never fell out.
    Jim


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  • goldengolden Posts: 8,807 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lost a $5 Indian about 15 years ago and still have not found it.

  • YoloBagelsYoloBagels Posts: 151 ✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2021 4:39PM

    I have bad luck with reales.

    Lost an 1812 Mo 4 Reales (That I got a very good deal on) two years ago; tougher date too.

    Then I lost a cob 2 reales (with very good details but no date) I payed $12 for a year ago. Left it in my jacket pocket one night and never saw it again. Was a very sentimental coin too.

    Oh, and I have lost and re-found my pocket piece 2007 ASE at least 12 times now. In fact it is currently lost somewhere in my house. Will probably find it again soon.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 3,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Also mentioned before, but I "lost" a $20 Double Eagle 1907 High Relief Saint that I had won in an auction. Years later I was cleaning out a drawer and just before tossing a pile of old envelopes it fell out of one. I say "lost" because until I found it I wasn't aware that it had gone missing.

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I misplace things more often than I lose them, but I still lose things once in a while.
    Right before the banks were closed, I received 4 crisp unc $100 star notes.
    I have no idea what happened to them.
    I'll find them someday......maybe

  • d9lowed9lowe Posts: 297 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 22, 2021 1:59AM

    I was on my boat one day and took my wedding ring off to put on some sun screen. I put it on the dash on the port side. Still to this day i havent found it. Its on that 19ft boat somewhere, it has to be. It wouldn't have flown out. Someday it will show up.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,392 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So I misplaced my sanity for 43 years thanks to PTSD courtesy of the green machine and hid my coin collection from myself so l couldn't sell it. As fate would have it my wife saved my life in 2015 by driving my sorry a__ to the VA ER and I "found" my collection in the basement in recovery. I am grateful for my life today. Have a good day. Peace Roy

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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 8,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bless you and thank you Roy.
    Jim


    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I missing a 1964-L and a 1 oz silver bar [San Diego Zoo],
    been missing about 25 years,
    but I'm sure they will turn up. :)

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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭

    I lost half of a very rare piece for one of my other hobbies. It was an issue that was only available regionally, and not in the northeast where I live. It's two parts and one of them is just gone, luckily the other half is still here. I hope I will find it someday.

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  • gschwernkgschwernk Posts: 338 ✭✭✭✭✭

    About 20 years ago I lost a very rare Newpaper stamp (5-8 known) I had just paid about 30K. I was so upset that I stopped collecting for about 6months. About 2 years later I bought another copy also for around 35K. When I sold my Newspaper stamp collection about 5 years later the second stamp sold for 65K so I basically broke even. The original stamp was never found and I have since sold the house in which it was lost.

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only lost my mind about 3 years now. I think. lol
    It will show up someday when I least expect it.
    Wayne :)

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gschwernk said:
    About 20 years ago I lost a very rare Newpaper stamp (5-8 known) I had just paid about 30K. I was so upset that I stopped collecting for about 6months. About 2 years later I bought another copy also for around 35K. When I sold my Newspaper stamp collection about 5 years later the second stamp sold for 65K so I basically broke even. The original stamp was never found and I have since sold the house in which it was lost.

    Brutal story... damn

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