Ok...coin related question.....what is the strangest thing you had a coin shipped to you in?

kryptonitecomics

I believe we are all pretty excited when we get to our mailbox and determine there is a little treasure inside (coins)

So we all talk about the great coins we just received, the colors, the varieties, the errors, the rips, the dogs, and everything in between but.....

What is the strangest, most bizzare, or most interesting thing you have ever had a coin shipped in???


I bought a 1962 Proof Quarter off Ebay the other day:





and it came inside this, with some cardboard wrapped around it..................





Now I readily admit I am a pack rat but a bubble mailer that's 14 years old.....that even has me beat

Ok I know that he probably purchased the coin from this company and just kept the slab in the original mailer all these years but I still thought it was pretty interesting

pharmer

Got an eBay purchase once that was wrapped in just a piece of cardboard, that they kept wrapping into an envelope shape and mailed like that.

STONE

Who cares about the wrapping, that proof quarter is awesome

kryptonitecomics

<< <i>Got an eBay purchase once that was wrapped in just a piece of cardboard, that they kept wrapping into an envelope shape and mailed like that. >>



That's how this was wrapped as well but fortunately it was placed inside this vintage buble mailer first

lkrarecoins

i bought a lot of around 50 or 60 morgans a few months back...The seller wrapped each and every coin in bubble wrap

DrPete

Did you really mean to publish your entire address to this public forum?

Athena

I don't collect quarters, but that one looks beautiful!

tydye

I purchased a case of that gummed paper tape a few years ago. I use anything to ship in as I just wrap it in the brown gummed tape. I use soap boxes a lot. Cost about a dollar to ship in. The stuff last forever too - I am still on my first roll.

kryptonitecomics

<< <i>Did you really mean to publish your entire address to this public forum? >>



It's not mine...and it wasn't his.....and since it was somebody's 14 years ago...I guess I am ok with that?


This Quarter is yet another example of the deals you can get on Ebay when you have some skills at judging nice coins from bad scans.....paid $9.99 for it and I was the only bidder:

Seller's pics...

TwoSides2aCoin

an ACG holder

Type2

That is a very nice Quarter nice pickup.

gtstang

Cut up cereal box taped around a group of coins.

Steve27

One of our members received a coin packaged in an old shoe from another forum member, but the shoe was for the member's dog.

LindeDad

A Nike shoe box but it did have a PCGS blue box full of slabs.

Most of them are now Here. I allready had the quarters and halves got the others from one of the members here.

CaptHenway

At ANACS one day, we received a large (20 by 24 inch or so, but only an inch or so thick) stiff package completely embalmed in wrapping tape. We couldn't find any seam along an edge to get a knife into to cut the tape. Finally we took it to the work bench and put a cold chisel to one corner and bent it back a bit to see what the hell we were working with.

The guy had cut three sheets of masonite to the same dimensions, then routed out a hole in one of them big enough to hold the coin and paperwork, and then made a sandwich with the coin in the middle. He then put about 50 finishing nails all around the circumference, and then wrapped it in the tape so you couldn't pull out the nails.

Of course, the coin was a replica.

TD

Russ

A Marlboro Red box.

Russ, NCNE

kryptonitecomics

Anybody get a coin shipped in a rubber chicken????

MrHalfDime

"At ANACS one day, we received a large (20 by 24 inch or so, but only an inch or so thick) stiff package completely embalmed in wrapping tape. We couldn't find any seam along an edge to get a knife into to cut the tape. Finally we took it to the work bench and put a cold chisel to one corner and bent it back a bit to see what the hell we were working with.

The guy had cut three sheets of masonite to the same dimensions, then routed out a hole in one of them big enough to hold the coin and paperwork, and then made a sandwich with the coin in the middle. He then put about 50 finishing nails all around the circumference, and then wrapped it in the tape so you couldn't pull out the nails.

Of course, the coin was a replica.

TD"




Contest over. That's got to top them all.

DJCoinz

<< <i>At ANACS one day, we received a large (20 by 24 inch or so, but only an inch or so thick) stiff package completely embalmed in wrapping tape. We couldn't find any seam along an edge to get a knife into to cut the tape. Finally we took it to the work bench and put a cold chisel to one corner and bent it back a bit to see what the hell we were working with.

The guy had cut three sheets of masonite to the same dimensions, then routed out a hole in one of them big enough to hold the coin and paperwork, and then made a sandwich with the coin in the middle. He then put about 50 finishing nails all around the circumference, and then wrapped it in the tape so you couldn't pull out the nails.

Of course, the coin was a replica.

TD >>

mrearlygold

A pile of silver dollars came wrapped in a diaper from an obgyn

Pentimento

That was a really good masonite story

pf70collector

Not strange but unusual. The shipping box was covered with stamps from the 60 and 70's. Coolest package I ever received. Still have it.

19Lyds

I received an IKE dollar that was wrapped in a baggie and then neatly taped to a cardboard insert! When I opened the package I really freaked until I could see that the coin was wrapped in a baggie after I peeled the tape back!



The creativity of the cheap EBay seller never ceases to amaze me!

MadMarty

A lot of times when I have to ship 2 slabs, I pack them in blue 70s proof set boxes. I have gotten a few E-Mails that the buyers were freaked out!

Russ

<< <i>Not strange but unusual. The shipping box was covered with stamps from the 60 and 70's. Coolest package I ever received. Still have it. >>






Russ, NCNE

oldwestgold

A cheap regular 'ol letter envelope. Needless to say the PCGS slab was busted all to hell, from going through the letter sorting machine. Coin was undamaged but I still returned it.

pf70collector

Russ, some ebayers mail this way it seems. Getting rid of their inventory. Being a past(not current) stamp collector I think it is sacrilege but they are going for less than face.

MrHalfDime

I just received a recent eBay purchase in one of the ubiquitous corrugated cardboard Safe-T-Mailers. While this may be common and accepted practice, I found it unusual that there was no envelope - the seller merely placed the address and postage on the outside of the cardboard mailer and shipped it, complete with instructions on the outside "JUST PEEL APART TO OPEN". Somehow the item made it here safely, and no one felt the urge to 'peel apart' the package. Fortunately, it was also a very inexpensive item. Oh, and I paid $4.00 for postage and handling for this 1 ounce uninsured package.

Shamika

Had some raw coins shipped to me in a toilet paper roll. I'm not kidding.

compromonedas

A coin wrap in a Victoria Secret magazine. he is now in my favorite sellers list
Keith

ProofArtworkonCircs

I bought what I thought was a type B unc silver quarter. I might have know something was wrong when I got it for a dollar.
It wasn't unc. It was a brilliant gem proof. It came in a safe-t-mailer period. The glue was contacting the coin. It now has selective toning.