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What's the most expensive coin you've "lost".
ambro51
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Not in a 'deal' but actually lost somewhere. I confess to losing a Vermont Baby Head, a sweet surfaced F+ with numerous small planchet voids. Lost..... I searched for months. Last thing I remember was photographing it. Where it went from there.....still a mystery. Probably a $600 coin. Dammit.
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A $4K middle date large cent, bought from Tom Reynolds about 5 years ago. It arrived late one afternoon, and I didn't have a lot of time to study it. 'Hid' it in our master bedroom or in a hall closet just before going out to dinner, then forgot to retrieve it. Months later, I remembered that the coin was in the house and spent hours looking for it, to no avail. We have since moved, so someone will get a gift (I think), if he/she gets lucky one day.
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CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
PCGS MS-65 Stella
(old story, told many times here)
I remember that story Fred from many years ago.
Out in the trash.
i have "lost" only one coin...1876-CC quarter. i bought it raw and kept it as a pocket piece. then, i decided that it might get lost, so i put it on my nightstand. that's the last time i saw it. i have looked everywhere for that coin. anyway, since then i have moved and it never showed up. it's out there somewhere. it was pretty nice too...probably vf.
Mentioned this before. I lost a GB sovereign (nothing too special). I scoured the room and finally found it at the bottom of the waste basket. Like I said before, this has become my "fool's gold" sovereign.
If you're like me, it will show up again.
BTW, I miss your threads about the series you've been collecting, the gold dollars, the Vermont coppers, the Feuntwanger (sp?), and others. They were an education in themselves. I did meet you once in Boston.
A 1908 Indian $5 gold piece. Several years ago I sold off some gold coins to get cash to buy a condo. It was an idea that my lovely wife came up with. Anyway, on the particular morning in question I was off to the buyer to sell, and I was also charged with the duty of dropping off my three year old granddaughter to her mommy. Multitasking is not my strongpoint. I was having a devil of a time getting the little critter strapped into the car seat and in the process I sat the coin down on the roof of my truck. Not good. When I got little sweetie home and was taking her out of the car seat, I noticed the coin was not where I left it. Who'd a thunk it?
Luckily nothing of real value. I did lose a 64 Kennedy that I had been using as a pocket piece and golf ball marker during a round of golf.
After reading the stories here, I don't feel so badly. I lost a British penny of King William II, a.k.a. Rufus in the house for which I paid $1,850. I got all over the place I last had it, and can't find it anywhere.
1955 double die
I've stretched when I needed to. Big loss was a gem Saint in one of the early PCGS holders, either regency or similar, stolen.
I have misplaced but never lost coins at home.I did lose a nice RD 72 MS 66 double die
sending to an APO....was compensated thru insurance, but a hassle (time consuming).
I don't carry silver dollars for show and tell anymore. Have lost two CC dollars with the most expensive being a 79cc on a flight back from Oregon (lost in the seat I presume).
Both were actually lost on flights. Must be the design of airplane seats.
bob:(
I have never lost any coin that i know of but I recently discovered that I apparently lost a whole binder of baseball cards. I know, not coins, but this binder would have normally sat in a box or on a shelf next to binders of coins in 2 x 2's. Plus it did have a page of these metal discs with popular stars on them that I think they did call coins. It also had my cards I bought in the late 60's and then some worthless 80's cards. The whole thing was maybe worth 200 bucks so if it was stolen I think they grabbed the wrong binder. I can't come up with any logical explanation of how they could be lost or stolen.
Successful BST deals with mustangt and jesbroken. Now EVERYTHING is for sale.
Lost: $2k raw 1794 large cent. Fell out of pocket then out pickup door onto dirt road covered with only 1/2" snow somewhere along a 7 mile stretch when I actually didn't need to be out driving.
Then early the next morning, county road guy plows it who knows where before I could look for it. Spent hours in freezing Temps looking, but only found a quarter. Road maintenance guy has brought me paying deer hunters each year since to make up. So in a way I've made a profit that's still ongoing. Still wonder where it is though.
I have only misplaced a coin once, but it turned up. Hydrant, OKCC, I feel your pain.
I just threw up in my mouth
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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Low grade 16-D dime, I know it's still here in the house, but lord knows where.
Y'all might not believe it but back in the early 90's I believe I came across a 1943 bronze cent and did not realize what it was at the time during a bag search. I dismissed it for some reason and haven't a clue where it went. It haunts me to this day.
1916-D mercury dime. Found it in a bag of silver from a coin show. I saw a 1916 and like I'm sure everyone one of you do, turn her over for a MM. Boom right there solid punch no wear just bam. I was just a kid, see, so to me this was winning Powerball. Put it in a flip and in my collection and brought my box to sell it the next day never seen it again. I never told anyone and I back tracked and I never let my coins out of my sight. It broke my heart. I learned that day that this was what devastation feels like.
Feeling your pain !
Hey, OKCC. When I lost my gold Indian it was on a dirt road just like when you lost your 1794 large cent. It had to be because from the house to the paved road is about a half mile. So I just know it's out there somewhere and I do keep looking. I haven't found it yet, but unless some field rat ran off with it or a coyote ate it, I'm still holding out hope. Someday. Una dia.
Not a big loss but it was a gift. I was working part time at a small coin shop and the owner one day tossed me a coin and said, "keep this, it is valuable". It was a 3 leg Buffalo 5C, probably VF. So it wasn't a great coin but I valued it because he was kind to me.
So I had it in this box with other small denomination coins that weren't parts of sets...a Barber 25c, a handful of Standing Liberty Quarters, some loose Buffalo and Jefferson 5c, Indian Head cents, Liberty 5c and so forth. I went to look for it later and somehow it just disappeared. I had some other Buffalos in the 30's in there, so I looked through those hundreds of times but it has never shown up. I think someone must have taken it. I just felt bad because it was a gift.
I lost a 1999 gold 1/10 oz Eagle when I was in high school. Couldn't find it. Looked all weekend. Nada. Went to school on Monday. Open my history book and there it was. Good thing nobody saw it.
Gave my dad a opium half dollar...you know the type thats hinged. Was a rare one made from an 1893 columbian exposition half dollar. Finest Ive ever seen. Worth somewhere in the ballpark of 500. He had it on his side table where he sits drinks coffee and reads the newspaper every morning. Thinks it got knocked into waste bin. Been over a year no sign of it. Figure hes right
Like others here, this is a repeat of prior posting(s) on similar threads, but for me the most valuable coin I lost was one that I found not having discovered that it had been lost. I was going through some old papers and wedged in the middle was an envelope containing a 1907 High Relief Double Eagle that I had won in an auction years prior and misplaced. I feel lucky that I didn't just discard the papers as I might have done.
One day Fred will find a MS-65 Stella in the most unlikely of places.
Only then will the universe be in balance againl``
Pcgs 67fs 1950-D jefferson, first found it in the early 1960's in a bank roll. ...must have mailed it to someone thinking it was a different coin!!!
I bought a 1884-S Morgan (mail order form the CONUS) back when I was in The Netherlands (Holland) in the late 80's early 90's. The last I remember it was in one of those Fire Resistant boxes in one of my military move boxes...I have not seen it since...perhaps one day I will go through all of those boxes in the garage and find it.
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I have told the story here before... my $5 gold Indian.. disappeared completely.. searched for it for two years.. even moved clear across the continent. Figured it was gone.. Then one day, was going through a storage box of ammunition.... BINGO!! How it got there I have no idea...just should not have been possible...yet, there it was. I did my happy dance... for about three days....and I still smile every time I see it.
Cheers, RickO
Won't mean much to those here on the Light Side, but lost a beautiful Unc. (raw) 1863 florin sim to one that reached 40k at auction about two years ago. Well, wife who is now gone may have taken that one.
Well, just Love coins, period.
My Dad had to leave the house unexpectedly and he stashed the Wells Fargo so-called he had been looking at in one of those old torpedo style vacuum cleaners. He forgot all about it and not long after, tossed the vacuum in the trash. It took him awhile to recall where he put it. We try to not bring it up.
Cool Tread! Long time ago a had a 1888 Indian Cent that I thought maybe it had a chance of being the Biggie, the famous 1888/7? Years ago I checked with my loupe pretty vigorously. I just about given up. but now, since I bought this fantastic Scope with a 500x Mag. I'm trying to relocate the darn coin? With my mind, I haven't the foggiest idea where I left the coin? It's lost like your thread suggests. Oh well, If it is the BIG Variety, this, I think, would qualify as my biggest lost, you think?
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Oh, I know where it is - in the Simi Valley Trash Dump.
(to make it worse, it's in a first generation PCGS holder;
I'd guess it's a lock 65 today, and possibly a 66. It was
graded within the first 5-6 months of PCGS starting, in 1986)
I have never lost a high dollar coin. Sorry if many of you have.