LOST coin.

Twowood

Just put a great coin up for auction.Got 2 bids.NOW I can't find the damn coin!!!!
Has that ever happened to you? Bet it hasn't! Twowood

StillLurking

Is this the obverse?

jonesy

No it hasn't.
Glenn

baccaruda

nope. i keep like a monopoly-style money holder right on my desk that says "Lot 1", "Lot 2" etc, with the coins in each spot. It kind of sucks because i start looking at them and think about keeping them, but at least it's organized.

MrEureka

Has that ever happened to you? Bet it hasn't!

You're right. I've never received two bids on a lot. I'm lucky just to get one!

(Just kidding, okkk?)

kieferscoins

Good one Mr. Eureka. I keep all the coins for sale on ebay in a seperate pile, but had it happen once. One fell behind the desk and I found it 2 days before the auction closed. make sure to move everything.

Cameron Kiefer

sinin1

Not quite, but close - got the pictures and everything on a nice half but when ready to list it, couldn't find it.

I am sure it will show up sometime, and am glad I do not have to spend hours searching for a lost coin.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Has that ever happened to you? Bet it hasn't! Twowood >>



Unfortunately, you'd lose that bet.

It's happened to me, I'm ashamed to say, and more than once. In all cases but one, I found the coin in due time and was able to ship it. One time, however, it stayed lost long enough that I had to sell the coin to a second buyer after refunding the money to the first buyer. The coin had fallen beneath the cushion of my desk chair, and all the while I was scratching my head over where it had disappeared to, I was sitting on it!

I've never sold a coin that stayed lost, to my knowledge. I wish I could say that of my personal collection. I've had one or two disappear, never to return. (Sharing house space with a toddler and moving can take their toll.)

itsnotjustme

I've shipped a wrong coin...

I sent a PR68CAM 1959 Washington instead of a PR67CAM. I realized it about a week later when I went to sell another PR67CAM, and the cert number was the same as the one I already sold. I contacted the buyer, explained my mistake and offered to either pay return postage and send the correct coin, or to let them purchase the better coin at a nice price. They sent $75 additional and we were both happy.

Pushkin

The coins aren't lost. Sometimes coins undergo a transdimensional phase shift. The coin is right where you put it, but temporarily in another parallel spacetime dimension. Sooner or later, the cat will sneeze, you will drop a bar of soap, or some other monumental event will shake the various portals that lead to and from these different dimensions and your coin will be available again to you. The frequency of transdimensional phase shifts for socks is even greater, and many socks from other dimensions actually appear in ours - sadly that is not true for coins. Coins only disappear and reappear, they almost never just appear. PM me if you would like to read some in depth research articles on the transdimensional phase shift of coins (and socks).

anoldgoat

When socks make that transdimensional phase shift they reappear in your closet as clothes hangers.

Dabigkahuna

Lord,

I still have that Morgan that you lost in the couch!

It's happened to me. In each case the coin was sitting there right in front of me the whole time. I do my best inventory when that happens!

Larry

lordmarcovan

Yeah. Larry was my secondary backup buyer on the Morgan I lost.

(Not in the couch- in my desk chair!)

I've shipped the wrong coin before, too. Once. That terrifies me so much that I double- and triple-check, but one time, I did mix up two different Shield nickel shipments. It came out well in the end because I caught myself early and emailed the person before the coin even reached him, so he was able to send it back before it was even opened.