Q: How many coins have you vacuumed up?

adamlaneus

Yes, at great personal risk, I post another thread with what I feel is an honest question. I think this may have happened to everyone.


I was just vacuuming my house. *thunk* *thunk*. Down go two zincolns. It stimulates a question.



Two questions actually.


How many coins have you vacuumed up?

And what percentage of those coins have you recovered from your vacuum cleaner versus just throwing out with the bag?


Heck, what's the most expensive coin you have vacuumed?


I ask this because I have just caused the demise of two zincolns. And i'm pretty certain I do not want to recover them.


If I had heard this sound whilst vacuuming up around my photography stand, I would have been Very Worried as to what had just gone into the bag.


PSA:
Keeping your coins inside of PCGS slabs are a great way of not vacuuming them up!

DUIGUY

I have bin called "Hoover", on this forum in the past.

NewEnglandNotes

I have heard of collectors who had to wait for their dog to "pass" a coin. I would think the vacuum would be more damaging, but not sure what a dog's stomach acid would do to a coin either.

adamlaneus

That sounds like an interesting topic:

You are an advanced collector.
Your dog eats one of your coins.
Do you go to the vet immediately or wait for the dog to pass the coin.
Is there a monitary limit at which you would make one choice versus another?
Which of your coins are worth a vet bill and which of your coins are gonna' go out the other way?
Answering this question as a collector is an interesting way to bifurcate your collection.

One could go deeper. A zincoln may be poisonous to the dog, so you would want it out right away.
But a platinum? A small plat isn't going to do much.
Unless the dog eats the platinum with a bunch of rocks, in which case you might lose a grade along the way.
Who knows, gold might tone interestingly with certain breeds of dog?
Maybe someday "that coin is a dog" might have a totally positive meaning!
Hm.


But, you know, that isn't a very serious question, is it? It does not belong here on this forum.

MidLifeCrisis

Cam40

ocon4008

All of them; how else do you get the dirt out of the nooks and crannies?