I lost a mint state 1943-P silver Jefferson Nickel that I had found in circulation the year before when I left it in a desk at school in the fourth grade. This was in 1974 and after all these years it still rankles me.
@cmerlo1 said:
When I was a kid (around 1980-ish), I found a 1972 DDO-003 cent in change. My mom paid for and helped me submit it to ANACS, and it came back with a photo certificate. I have the coin, but the certificate has been missing for 20 years now. Something tells me it's still in my house but I just don't know where. I work for ANACS now, so it's particularly important to me.
The negatives are still on file in the basement of ANA Headquarters. Print yourself another one!
LOL!
TD
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
@Ronyahski said:
The strange thing was that I wasn't as remorseful for thinking that I had just lost a ton of money on the coin. It was that the coin survived almost 200 years in pristine condition, I became the caretaker of it, and thought that I had managed to have the coin incinerated in a pile of garbage.
That's exactly how I would have felt. The money can be replaced but never the coin.
@ArizonaRareCoins said:
When I was ~11yrs old in Flushing, NY, I was going to sleepaway camp. I decided to bury my expensive coins in the front yard. I had a $10 Indian, $2 1/2 Indian and a 1652 oak tree shilling. When I came back from camp, my parents had divorced and we had moved to Great Neck, NY. My mom had said everything from the old house had been packed-up and moved to the new house..........bye-bye coins.
ArizonaRareCoins - Did you not try to return to that house to dig up your collection? Nobody but you would know that it's there and it would stay put for years, even decades.
Haven't been back to Queens since. I had no opportunity to go back anywhere near there until I started college in Old Westbury in 1985. By than, I pretty much fogot about it.
Found a 1955 Double die as a kid. Never knew what the heck it was because I wasn't a collector. I just remember looking at it wondering why it was like that.
@FredWeinberg said:
Short Version of my (well-known) Story:
In June 1986, about 5-6 months after PCGS
started (I was one of the original 31 dealers),
I threw away in tall trash can in my vault room,
a PCGS PROOF-65 $4 Stella.
I know where it is - in the Simi Valley Trash Site;
been there for 31 years.
Growing up and living in Simi Valley until recently, I find this account on tract to overtake the legend of Joaquin's Treasure of the Santa Susana Pass, which if true is probably underneath the 118/Ronald Reagan Freeway, I first heard the story of Joaquin's treasure as a kid and although it was really a story of a lesser known California Bandito that robbed a Stagecoach in the Santa Susana Pass in the 1850's, it has somehow morphed into Joaquin Murrieta the Famous Bandito, I admit I've been up there in the pass hundreds of times but there are like a million boulders it could be under.
Anyhow here is where the Famous Fred Weinberg Stella is as seen in the Red Circle
A little West of Madera and north of the 118 Freeway........happy hunting
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I lost a mint state 1943-P silver Jefferson Nickel that I had found in circulation the year before when I left it in a desk at school in the fourth grade. This was in 1974 and after all these years it still rankles me.
The negatives are still on file in the basement of ANA Headquarters. Print yourself another one!
LOL!
TD
That's exactly how I would have felt. The money can be replaced but never the coin.
Haven't been back to Queens since. I had no opportunity to go back anywhere near there until I started college in Old Westbury in 1985. By than, I pretty much fogot about it.
Edison commemorative is still missing but all of your stories made me no longer care about it.
Found a 1955 Double die as a kid. Never knew what the heck it was because I wasn't a collector. I just remember looking at it wondering why it was like that.
Think we spent the change on beer back then!
My Type Set & My Complete Proof Nickel Set!
Growing up and living in Simi Valley until recently, I find this account on tract to overtake the legend of Joaquin's Treasure of the Santa Susana Pass, which if true is probably underneath the 118/Ronald Reagan Freeway, I first heard the story of Joaquin's treasure as a kid and although it was really a story of a lesser known California Bandito that robbed a Stagecoach in the Santa Susana Pass in the 1850's, it has somehow morphed into Joaquin Murrieta the Famous Bandito, I admit I've been up there in the pass hundreds of times but there are like a million boulders it could be under.
Anyhow here is where the Famous Fred Weinberg Stella is as seen in the Red Circle
A little West of Madera and north of the 118 Freeway........happy hunting
Steve
Just a great thread!!!