Ever lost a coin?

dwood

Today, I had about 4 hours of sheer, gut-wrenching panic, as I thought I, or my 3 year old daughter, had lost an 1865 2-center, Plain 5 Variety, in MS63 that I bought for next to nothing....

Tonight just as I has resigned myself to the fact that I had thrown it away when cleaning out my office, or my daughter had hiddn it somewhere in her playdoh...I went to scan some bills and...

VOILA!!!!

Thank you Lord!

LucyBop

I bought a stunning 60 Frankie with CAM in Portland a few months back and I can't find it to save my life....

WHERE IS MY FRANKIE??????

Merc

No, never

mbbiker

Lucy you sure you didn't send it to PCGS? Yes i have lost a few coins but I always seem to find them a few days later.

dwood

Merc,
I take it you don't have kids...or they're grown

Its amazing the stuff that walks away when you have a 3 year old. And equally amazing is the stuff that sometimes turns up!

jom

I lost a Buffalo nickel...actually I "think" it was stolen from me at last Februarys Long Beach show

Here's a pic:

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jom

Aaron04

I left a 1914 Barber dime in a hotel one time about 6 years ago
I was leaving for vacation one time and because we were driving about an 8 hour drive I decided to check the mail on the way out.I was looking ( hoping ) for some coin related reading material like coin world or something to read on the drive and ended up finding a package of slabbed coins which had arrived a little early.Like a kid with a new toy I had to take them with me to examine on the drive.After we arrived at the hotel I still had to play with my new coins and kept them on the nightstand by the bed.Somehow when we got home I was missing one

Placid

Yeah at work sometimes change falls out of my pocket

mr3holesinone

Here's my tale...I was fresh out of college and working as the bookkeeper for a rare coin company. I had been given a stack of coins to mail out and got down to the last invoice and couldn't find the corresponding coin to mail with it. Well, the coin in question was about a $15,000 gold dollar. They're small enough to begin with and when you think you've lost one of those they're even smaller! I hadn't been given responsibility of coins that valuable before and I panicked. I was tearing apart sealed envelopes searching for the rascal and didn't have any luck. I went back to the coin dealer and asked if he was sure he'd given me that coin; he assured me I had to have it somewhere. Well, after another brief panic I found it stuck to some papers on my desk. Thus proving to Never give up even when you think all is lost.

coppercoins

Two years a PCGS67 1995 doubled die hid in my stuff...I found it while cleaning two weeks ago. I thought it was either in the attic, misplaced among other crap, or had been tossed somehow. I was relieved to find it.

Merc

Wow, that is scary. I'd hate to lose a coin. I placed $300 of travelers checks in an envelope and forgot about them once. I found them again about 2 years later and was happy I did. I completely forgot I had them.
You are right dwood, I have no kids, just a cat and she doesn't care for coins.

mbbiker

My cat loves coins really, every time i pull out my coins and put them all out on the table she hops up on the table and rolls around on them (only when i'm out of the room because she knows she'll be outside for a while if i see her on the table) Another thing my cat does is whenever i have a magazine or newspaper open she lays down on it so i can't read. Isn't it great having cats sorry for the off topic post.

Coppernicus

Haven't lost a coin but my cat does like to help me search through rolls of wheats! Just got my 1910 MS65 ACH back from PCGS (accented cat hair)...

Libertad

I dropped a 1914 Wheat cent that I found in an old dresser I bought, found it two weeks later, and lost it again somewhere in the family room later on. I know it hit the floor, but never found it though I moved all the furniture.

Still look for it at times, and it's been 2 years now. I imagine it went screaming and clunking into the Hoover at some point.

Some coins weren't meant for captivity, I guess.

jeffnpcb

1917 DDO Lincoln cent in MS 60. I know I paid for it, I know I recieved it, but geez, I've looked every where and can't find it!!

Gilbert

Yes, four to be exact; in the postal system. the gut'wrencher was a PCGS PR67 1956 Type 1 half dollar --- THAT I MADE, and was sending back to challenge the "non-CAM designation."

BSqr

how do I bookmark this thread so I can come back to it after I finish looking for my '33 St. Gaudens

Mark

A couple of years ago I just got back from vacation and had a package of coins I'd sent to PCGS waiting for me on the kitchen counter. I looked through them and noted that PCGS had body bagged a 3 CS. For some reason, the 3 CS went back into the package, and then the package went into the garbarge, and then the garbarge went to the dump. I console myself with the thought that at least the coin was body bagged.

I also have misplaced a dime in the last 6 months. I don't think it's lost...just misplaced. But I am a bit unsure when something that has been "misplaced" becomes "lost".

Mark

MadMarty

Pushkin's cat's love coins also, but they make their own dip...

gsaguy

I once 'lost' the only known Seated Liberty Dollar in a GSA softpack. I was sure the thing had gotten tossed with the old newspapers. Some months later I found it on a shelf in the closet where I'm sure I'd put it to avoid losing it. Another senior moment I guess.

She now resides in my safety deposit box....................uuhhh, I think.

GSAGUY

mr1931S

one good thing about slabs is the impossibility of my losing one of my slabbed coins in a vending machine...

fairtraderzz

I know we have lost a few Boy the post office and fedex needs to get in on this one..

And I remember a story were a major dealer mistakenly threw a $20.000 coin in the garbage one time. Color me a dumpster diver for that kind of $

Gary
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agfox

I lost a raw 65+ fb 37 merc. Was in the smallest flip I had ever seen. Still haven't found it.

maddox

A few weeks ago I had just finished the scan of a 89CC Morgan, I do a lot of my coin scanning and cataloging at one of my retail stores. Sometimes I use the cash register counter as a work space and I may have a few coins layed out. I could have sworn I put the CC back into's it holder and placed it on the counter, behind a display.

A few customer's later, I sat down to work on the coins again. It was my like my world crashed in on me all at once, Oh crap, somebody heisted the CC. I tore the counter apart, behind the counter, under the counter, I looked everywhere. Found the holder, but not the coin. I became a frantic lunatic, it really ruined my day...Went home pissing fire, man I was furious. I think the devil was afraid of me on that day

The next day, came in and started to work on a scan and there was my prized CC, inside the scanner,

gsaguy

Maddox,

Like Anaconda says, "they're coins, not kidneys". But then, an 89-CC is getting close!

GSAGUY

stujoe

I have misplaced a few while taking pictures and stuff for the website. Fortunately, they have always turned up somewhere.

relayer

I haven't lost any keepers, but I did an inventory and had about $300 worth I couldn't find.

They weren't safe deposit box worthy but maybe they're there. I hope it's just a bookkepping error and I've already sold them

maddox

gsaguy,

feel free to come on over to my house and lose some coins anytime you like.......

Crashtestfixer

believe I shoved a couple in my nose as a kid. wish I still had the coins, but was fun at the time.

northcoin

The best story I ever heard about a lost coin was one where a Territorial gold piece that had once belonged to Virgil Brand surfaced after having been disgarded by the owner's wife who had donated some clothing with it still in the pocket to something like the Salvation Army. I believe the honest lady who was charged with drycleaning the item was responsible for its eventual return. This was something like a $100,000 coin no less.