I hate it when I can't find a coin that I have recorded as owned!! :(

LanLord

It's nothing big, or even expensive. Not difficult to find or anything, but I have a checklist that shows that I own a 1875-s (in wreath) seated dime, but the port is empty in my dansco album, and my Excel spreadsheet has no mention of said coin!

SO! Either I:
purchased it at a coin show, updated the portable checklist, lost the coin in transit and never updated the spreadsheet

or

I never owned it, mismarked the wrong spot in the checklist and never corrected that error, thinking, "I'll remember that in the future", and immediately forgot that I did so.

I suppose there is a third possibility, one of you secretly checked the little box in the record book when I wasn't paying attention and now you're enjoying my utter confusion.

AMRC

Been there done that. More to be said about the box of 20 concept.

lasvegasteddy

<< <i>It's nothing big, or even expensive. Not difficult to find or anything, but I have a checklist that shows that I own a 1875-s (in wreath) seated dime, but the port is empty in my dansco album, and my Excel spreadsheet has no mention of said coin!

SO! Either I:
purchased it at a coin show, updated the portable checklist, lost the coin in transit and never updated the spreadsheet

or

I never owned it, mismarked the wrong spot in the checklist and never corrected that error, thinking, "I'll remember that in the future", and immediately forgot that I did so.

I suppose there is a third possibility, one of you secretly checked the little box in the record book when I wasn't paying attention and now you're enjoying my utter confusion. >>


time to step back from coins for a lil while...it will be ok

tahoe98

...i believe i received it in my change from taco bell!

jmski52

I understand. I have a Federal Reserve roll of quarters in my spreadsheet with a price paid and a date of purchase, but I have no idea where the roll is.

CarlWohlforth

I recently had a buyer for a coin that was on my website and listed in my inventory. I couldn't find it anywhere! How horrible. Now I have to do a complete physical inventory and I'm not looking forward to it...

Coinsponge

<< <i>...i believe i received it in my change from taco bell! >>




You sure it wasn't wrapped in a slightly used napkin?

shorecoll

I have an AG 16-D dime, the last one from half a roll and I know it's here. It likely fell in between two books and I'm not moving 11,000 books to find it. I have moved thousands of them since I lost it, but I'm assuming I (or my executor) will have to move them all to find it.

johnny9434

been there, done that. i misplaced a half dozen american silver eagles (1986) and found them 15 years later. go figure

Shamika

Yea, my spreadsheet shows a 1933 double eagle, but I can't find the darn thing no matter how hard I look. Can I make an insurance claim.

RedTiger

I have done the same. It is frustrating. I tend to be an organized person, so can only imagine what collecting is like for that are disorganized.

Batman23

I was just checking my stash to see if you left it in with mine. I found this one, does it look like yours?

tahoe98

<< <i>I have done the same. It is frustrating. I tend to be an organized person, so can only imagine what collecting is like for that are disorganized. >>



...trust me, it's a LOT more frustrating!

MsMorrisine

you have 2 different "databases" for the same thing?

(I can't complain, I moved something to the "checked" pile but didn't check it off in the db. when it came time to find that last blank, I was looking all over the house in a huff... except in the already checked pile. I eventually found it )

rec78

Maybe you put it in the wrong port in the album or mistook it for the below wreath version or put it in the hiding spot where no one else will ever find it only you forget where that was and now you will never find it either-then one day it will just show up.

Bob

johnny9434

<< <i>Yea, my spreadsheet shows a 1933 double eagle, but I can't find the darn thing no matter how hard I look. Can I make an insurance claim.


>>

but but you had 3 of them. let us know how ya made out with the ins. company

LanLord

Yes,

Please send it back!

MrHalfDime

I can certainly sympathize with what you are experiencing. I consider myself to be a very organized person, and I have developed a sophisticated database to keep track of my reference collection of half dimes, now numbering nearly 2000 pieces. It would be impossible to keep track of them in my head (it's the short term memory that goes first), so I rely on the computer to assist me. I assign a unique 'accession' number to each half dime as I acquire it - a consecutive number beginning with #1 for the first half dime I ever bought, and currently ending with #1925 for the last coin I purchased.

Despite my significant efforts to keep track of things, I am haunted by the fact that accession number 294 apparently represents a half dime that I cannot account for. It was entered March 24, 1991, and evidently is an 1837 Liberty Seated V2 Large Date half dime, but I have no record of what I paid for it, from whom I purchased it, and most alarming of all, I cannot locate the coin. I have no idea what might have happened, or why some data was entered but not all of it. In sheer frustration I have deleted the coin from my database, but that nagging number 294 will always be there, for the 'phantom' half dime that I may .... or may not ... have purchased or ever owned.

So you see, this can happen to anyone, no matter how careful you try to be. Your coin may turn up someday, or maybe it never existed.

Shamika

<< <i>In sheer frustration I have deleted the coin from my database, but that nagging number 294 will always be there, for the 'phantom' half dime that I may .... or may not ... have purchased or ever owned. >>



I have to admit I can really feel your pain. I have been extremely vigilant about keeping thorough records; dates, prices, sellers, seller's contact info, serial numbers, accession numbers, venue, etc, plus all receipts. So two years ago during a move I laid out my entire collection (several hundred pieces) and confirmed that I had all my records in order as well as all the pieces in my spreadsheet. Low and behold, I had an item on my spreadsheet that I could not locate. It was not an important or valuable piece, but it has driven me nuts trying to figure out where the piece went. Did I sell it? Did I loan it out and forget? Was it stolen? Did I discard it? WHO KNOWS! A few months ago, I finally deleted the line item on my spreadsheet. I swear I'd give money just to know what had happened to this item.

mrpotatoheadd

Could be worse. You could be a dealer and have somebody come here to start a thread about how incompetent you are for not being able to keep perfect track of your inventory at all times.

BaseballAbs

I never owned it, mismarked the wrong spot in the checklist and never corrected that error, thinking, "I'll remember that in the future", and immediately forgot that I did so

This sounds like something I would do.

GAT

Join the crowd. I have been missing a PCGS Carson City MS Morgan and a 92 S Morgan for the past 4 years. At this point I have reach the conclusion that they were stolen.

66Tbird

Guess I'm the lucky one. Seems each time I rummage through the general collection I find something I'd totally forgot about buying. It's got me a little worried at times but it's cool finding the stuff.

Trime

Yep it happens. I had a MS 1955 DD cent that I put in a drawer long ago. I think I put it is a flip. I don't have a clue where it went.
hopefully it will show up sometime.
Another problem I used to anticipate purchases bought on approval by entering them into inventory. Rarely I would forget to remove from the list when I returned a coin. So I made two columns Date of order and date purchased.