I just found a coin I lost last year!

Barry

About a year ago, I was selling a (lower grade) 20 cent piece on EBay. When it came time to ship it, I couldn't find the coin. It just disappeared from my desk. I looked on the floor, asked the kids and wife (who usually don't go near my desk), etc. and it was just gone.

Today, while doing a few photos, I noticed something sticking out between the pages of a spiral notebook on the desk. Sure enough, it was the missing coin!

shuckins

are you gonna offer it to the person who bought it a year ago, but never recieved it?
what a wild holiday story that would make!

kryptonitecomics

Barry put down the coins and step away from the Vodka

UncleWiggly

<< <i>are you gonna offer it to the person who bought it a year ago, but never recieved it?
what a wild holiday story that would make!
>>




That'd be neat!!

Barry

<< <i>are you gonna offer it to the person who bought it a year ago, but never recieved it?
what a wild holiday story that would make!
>>


I would, but I don't remember who it was, and there's no way to get auction history a year old.

sumnom

20 years ago, I was a kid in middle school with a part-time job at a construction site. We were putting a new roof on a house built in the early 1800's. One of the men on our crew found an 1817 15-star cent under the eaves. It was rather corroded but still had excellent details with little sign of wear. I think a carpenter who built the house must have put the cent there when it was new and it never saw circulation. I told the carpenter that I would take it home and look it up and tell him about it. Well, being the kid I was, I LOST IT! I don't know how I did but I did. I was sure the guy thought I had stolen it and lied. He was so angry and I have always felt bad about it.

A little while ago, I was going through a box of things from the old house where I grew up and, lo and behold, I FOUND THE CENT. I looked through the phone book and managed to find the carpenter's name and called him up. He remembered the cent and was astounded that I was returning it to him. For the last few weeks I have been able to live my life with at least that particular wrong having been made right.

seanq

I can't find a coin I sold on eBay about ten days ago. I keep everything I've listed in a small wooden box on my cmoputer desk. Last week my wife "reogranized" the entire room, and now the coin isn't inthe box. Most of my numismatica, including a PCGS box full of slabs, wound up "reogranized" into a big Rubbermade tote. I have to write my winning bidder today and let him know he'll be getting a refund instead of the coin.


Sean Reynolds

Coinhusker1

It was my coin, send it immediately!!!

coinlieutenant

Cool story sumnom...

dthigpen

Neat Baley... TIME FOR A HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!

XpipedreamR

Neat story, sumnom




I've still got a batch of missing coins flaoting around the house somewhere

ss350camaro

WOW! That's a cool story !

I could sure use a 20 cent'r for my type set


Please enter me in your very generous Holiday give-a-way

dthigpen

I've been fortunate enough to never lose a coin, at least as far as I know. Of course, if they aren't actively being looked at / sorted / catalogued / photographed by me at the time, they are in the safe or safe deposit box, period. I don't leave coins sitting around.

LincolnCentMan

A few years back, I found a $200 coin that I lost. It was gone for about a year. I was pretty pumped about it. Now if I could just find that 32-D quarter that I misplaced. It was a F, I paid $32 for it about seven or eight years ago. It's been missing for about six years, and I've moved since I lost it, so I'm thinking that one is gone forever.

David

nwcs

I lost a coin once. It was a 5 lire vatican coin. The same kind my brother really wanted and it was a month or so before Christmas. I looked everywhere for it and then one day my mom told me that my brother was going through my photograde book and found it and thought I had bought it for him! I hadn't seen that coin in like 2 months at that point. I kept the coin.

I also got a 1983 onza from my mom back in like 1989. I put it away with some old baseball cards and didn't find it again till last year. It was in a small envelope. It sure toned up beautiful!

mgoodm3

You need to do a Xmas giveaway with the windfall coin.

IrishMike

I own so many coins that I am constantly finding ones that I did not even know were lost.

techeff

sumnom, great story!

GoYankees

<< <i>20 years ago, I was a kid in middle school with a part-time job at a construction site. We were putting a new roof on a house built in the early 1800's. One of the men on our crew found an 1817 15-star cent under the eaves. It was rather corroded but still had excellent details with little sign of wear. I think a carpenter who built the house must have put the cent there when it was new and it never saw circulation. I told the carpenter that I would take it home and look it up and tell him about it. Well, being the kid I was, I LOST IT! I don't know how I did but I did. I was sure the guy thought I had stolen it and lied. He was so angry and I have always felt bad about it.

A little while ago, I was going through a box of things from the old house where I grew up and, lo and behold, I FOUND THE CENT. I looked through the phone book and managed to find the carpenter's name and called him up. He remembered the cent and was astounded that I was returning it to him. For the last few weeks I have been able to live my life with at least that particular wrong having been made right. >>



Being corroded, you could have sent it to him an ANACS slab, as a free submission.

That was a nice heartwarming coin story. You just don't hear enough of those stories in the numismatic world.

dthigpen

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<< <i>20 years ago, I was a kid in middle school with a part-time job at a construction site. We were putting a new roof on a house built in the early 1800's. One of the men on our crew found an 1817 15-star cent under the eaves. It was rather corroded but still had excellent details with little sign of wear. I think a carpenter who built the house must have put the cent there when it was new and it never saw circulation. I told the carpenter that I would take it home and look it up and tell him about it. Well, being the kid I was, I LOST IT! I don't know how I did but I did. I was sure the guy thought I had stolen it and lied. He was so angry and I have always felt bad about it.

A little while ago, I was going through a box of things from the old house where I grew up and, lo and behold, I FOUND THE CENT. I looked through the phone book and managed to find the carpenter's name and called him up. He remembered the cent and was astounded that I was returning it to him. For the last few weeks I have been able to live my life with at least that particular wrong having been made right. >>



Being corroded, you could have sent it to him an ANACS slab, as a free submission.

That was a nice heartwarming coin story. You just don't hear enough of those stories in the numismatic world. >>



Since when are corroded coins a free submission at ANACS?

GoYankees

<< <i>Since when are corroded coins a free submission at ANACS? >>



I meant free for the guy who got his coin back.

dthigpen

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<< <i>Since when are corroded coins a free submission at ANACS? >>



I meant free for the guy who got his coin back. >>



Ah, okay. heh.

wjd283

Hey,I,too,was just reunited with an old coin I once had.Back in 68 when I was seven yrs old I saved up my allowance and bought an1840 holed dime at the flea market.I thought it was really cool.Eventually I lost track of it.So,life went on and me and my dad both started collecting again.Earlier this week I was looking at his stuff and,lo and behold,he had it.I bought it from him and did'nt ask him where he got it or anything.So after 36 yrs I once again own this POS,and I still think it's kinda cool.

thebeav

sumnom, excellent story.....I'd like to make it into a 'Lifetime' movie, for viewing around the holidays !!!

Paul

lclugza

I once lost a Walking Liberty half dollar for about a year. One day, I was sitting on a couch, and it fell down from atop the couch (but I don't know how I missed seeing it on top of the couch! It was in a bag).

lordmarcovan

I love it when I find long-lost treasures.

Now, if those two lustrous AU, fully-silvered Gordian III antoninianii I bought last summer would show up, I'd be tickled.

RalphP13

Sumnom, really cool story. Classy thing to do.

Ralph