What have your coins survived over the years?

jp

What has your coin collection survived over the years.
House fires, floods, the wife, a devorce, the kids, theft, hard times ($), etc...

Maybe we can learn how to protect our coins from hearing about what happened to or just about happened to other collectors coins.

Thanks,

BlueCole

I'm always afraid that one of the children would swallow one of my coins--i don't have many slabbed.

Irrational, maybe, but it might have neat toning when it comes out.

B.

itsnotjustme

5 Permanent Change of Station Moves. This last one was even more challenging with 5 people and my collection in the mini van.

MrLee

I was broke into about 25 years ago. They found about half of my collection but missed the books I had been working on since I was a kid. Didn't get away with too much. The theives were a pair of brothers (I found out who they were later.) One of them is doing 25 to life for a 3rd strike. The other is on his second and knows better to try ANYTHING! Crime didn't pay for these two.

jp

MrLee,
Did you ever get your coins back from them?

airplanenut

The hands of a 10-year-old to a 15-year-old

coppercoins

Let's see...high school, going into the military, having them shipped to Germany, shipping them back from Germany, two tornadoes, at least half a dozen moves, and a six year old...not much.

Geoman

My wife trying to spend my 31-S Lincoln, thinking it was just a penny, so she threw it in our coin jar.

coindaughter

A dozen or so of Dad's $5 gold coins were--unbeknownst to us children--stored in a false "Pennzoil Can" container. My sisters almost threw it into a giveaway box before my mom said to look inside.

Viper

My Wife...and that's worse than any tornado or hurricane

DoubleDime

Moving twice.

09sVDB

youth, college, marriage, kids &life in general.

dorkkarl

one attempted robbery (they didn't find the coins, heh heh heh) & once, my youngest daughter found one of my AU half-cents, thought it was play money, & proceeded to color it - with a ball point pen?!?!?! obvious lesson learned there.

K S

CalGold

Moving south. Moving north. Moving West. Hurricane. Blizzards. Earthquakes. Wars. Civil Unrest. Watergate.
The Hunt Brother's Silver Bubble--I should have sold big at $50. Jimmy Carter era inflation. The computer revolution. The internet bubble. The bursting of the internet bubble.

Now they are trying to survive George W in Washington and Gray Davis in Sacramento.

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Pushkin

The cat's very sharp claws

My shaky hands - dropping them on the floor and, once, into the toilet as I was "doing research" while examining some of them.

A couple disasterous attempts at "tone your coin for fun" experiments.

16 moves in 21 years


Thank you for your attention. The cat is taking his "pre-goodnight" nap.