Anyone ever flush a slabbed coin down a toilet?

krazyace5

I brought a green label PCI ms 65 1958 quarter to work to show a friend.
I went to use the bathroom, as I was bending over to flush it the slab falls out of my shirt pocket and hits the water just in time to be flushed.

It is almost to funny to be mad over. Thankfully it was not anything more expensive.

Cladiator

I wonder how PCI plastic will hold up to the sewage? Will make for an interesting find for some city sewage worker one day

lordmarcovan

Daaang! Did it go all the way down?



I brought a cool little love token I'd just gotten to work with me, one time. (I have a bad habit of checking the mailbox on my way to work, and carrying the goodies I got into work with me.)

The love token was ornately engraved on an 1885 dime. Really nice engraving and artistry. I have a few of them (holed, of course) on my Holey Coin Vest. For some reason I stuck the flip this coin was in into the cellophane wrapper around my cigarette packet. Smoked the last ciggie, and- you guessed it- threw out the pack.

By the time I realized my stupid mistake, the trash had been emptied. Gone.

It was only a $15 item, but that still bugs me.

One more incentive to quit smoking, I guess.

mercurynut

I hope the slab is waterproof.

ms70

This has got to be a first. That toilet must be quite large to be able to gulp down a slab.

astrorat

I bet after somebody does find the coin it will end up on ebay where it brings hundreds of dollars due to the monster brown toning!

Lane

GregTheGreat

<< <i>I bet after somebody does find the coin it will end up on ebay where it brings hundreds of dollars due to the monster brown toning!

Lane >>



lol.

I dropped a Morgan in a 2 X 2 into the toilet before... I was at the shop (the coin shop) and I needed to use the bathroom and I took a Morgan in there to look at (I had just paid it off... layaway) and when I was done looking at it I put it in my upper pocket and then when I was done using the bathroom I stood up bent down flushed the toilet and I hear PING... I look down my beautiful CC MS-63 Morgan goes swirling around.... I shoot my hand in after it... All I got out of my efforts was a dent in my wallet and some smelly hands...

-Greg

MadMarty

Man that's really crappy!!!

wingedliberty

God was trying to tell you something about PCI

nwcs

Now this is different!

It may be caught in the trap, though. Still, a good reminder not to bring coins into the bathroom. But I have heard weirder here. Do a search for the guy who takes his to the bathtub.

LucyBop

this puts a new meaning to the term, 'down the crapper'.........

Placid

This is a crappy thread.

granddad

Lost a Bust Half once that fell out of my shirt pocket at an auction. When I got home I tore the shirt up to use as rags. Only bought shirts with buttons on the pocket after that.

Louis

pontiacinf

im speachless

rob quit smoking

darktone

I don't think your problems are over yet as the slab is most likely going to cause a back-up and when your co-workers find out what did it your in for some $hit. mike

majorbigtime

Sounds like a good way of disposing of AccuCrap and other crappy slabs!! Or is this just a new AT technique??


Q: Who invented the flush tiolet??

A: Thomas Crapper (no s**t!)

Myqqy

I look down my beautiful CC MS-63 Morgan goes swirling around....

That sucks!!! What a terrible story- but I hope it convinces others to not put coins in their shirt pockets.........

JadeRareCoin

Anyone ever flush a slabbed coin down a toilet?

Of course I have. Hasn't everyone accidentally flushed a slabbed coin at least once or twice? The reality is that the slab probably did not make it all the way to the sewer. It is probably still hung up in plumbing of the bowl. Eventually (probably soon after it happened) the toilet will clog and the maintenance workers will have to remove the toilet or pipes to get to the obstruction. They will be pleasantly surprised to find a slab. My 6 year old son recently flushed a plastic bottle (smaller than a slab) at our house. I had to remove the toilet to get the bottle. Yuck!

ziggy29

I wouldn't flush any slab down the toilet. I would, however, flush some slab *labels* down the toilet after rescuing the coins in a crackout.

khayse

Yeah, I can't believe it would make it through the trap.

-KHayse

coinlieutenant

that is hilarious!!!

Stuart

<< I wonder how PCI plastic will hold up to the sewage? Will make for an interesting find for some city sewage worker one day. >>
This sounds like an Ed Norton & Ralph Cramden Honeymooners episode

Colorfulcoins

I have a 4-year old and she's thrown coins in the toilet but never flushed.......

sammydabull

my bets are its within a foot of the toilet you flushed it in.

I once, being foolish threw a souflet cup into the toilet and flushed, looked like it went down no problem, but it didnt, backed up the next flush all over the floor, had to snake the damn thing out

Numismanic

<< <i>Anyone ever flush a slabbed coin down a toilet? >>



No, just my grading fees this month!

techeff

No, just my grading fees this month!

ok, that was good!

Hoot

I don't know whether this is all sadly hilarious or horrifying! The stuff that legends are made of. Perhaps someone will take the initiative.

Meanwhile, pull the toilet and remove said slab from trap.

Hoot

BAJJERFAN

There are a lot of slabbed coins that deserve to be flushed. Retrieve it and send it back to PCI to be reholdered.

DorkGirl

There is no way that a slabbed coin would flush all the way through the toilet. Pull the stool, and take it out to the backyard. Get out your garden hose and put it in through the bottom of the toilet. Turn the water on full blast and I promise your coin will once more see the light of day. You might as well do it right now, cause you will have to sooner or later, that slab is going to clog up your toilet!!! Believe it or not, I have to do this at work from time to time. Pagers and Bic pens are the worst offenders. You might as well get started now

mozeppa

as many suspect...many slab sizes prohibit them from passing completly through the trap....due to the relative small diameter of the trap.

HOWEVER... I find that due to the relatively small size of the acg slab... that it makes the journey quite un-restricted.

so in conclusion ...size DOES really matter!...............WHAT?..........well were'd the heck DID you think i was going with this?