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lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,562 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I just had the strangest thing happen. As many of you know, I'm putting together a Dansco 7070 type set. Raw coins, obviously, go directly in the book. However, I have no qualms about cracking out a type coin for my album. I'll put the slabbing agency label on the back of the page. Last night, the piece of the slab with the label fell from my work bench, and the label disappeared. It obviously has to have gone somewhere, but I've moved everything, looked under everything I can look under, and it still hasn't turned up! It's not a huge loss, mainly an annoyance, but I just odd... this was from the 1915-D Barber Quarter I just purchased...

Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Its magic. ;)

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did you look in the Twilight Zone? I think it's there.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,932 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Paper stuck to something with a bit of static electricity?

    bob :)

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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't they have a little sticky spot? Did it stick to something you lifted up. It's there. Don't give up or you will have sleepless nights.

  • No HeadlightsNo Headlights Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds like it gave you the slip. Good luck

  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 28, 2018 12:40PM

    Sounds like me are you old like me, dropping things, with memory fading?

    Do you have a little dog?

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It doesn't really matter. It's a raw coin now. I have never understood cracking coins to put in books.

  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 28, 2018 12:46PM

    Reminds me of a #1 registry collector who was telling me over the phone someone had stolen one of his Pcgs box of slabs. He later called back and said he found it. The box somehow flipped over the backside of a drawer to his dresser. He felt really silly about that but much relieved.

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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I find things like that in the last place I look.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • MoneyMonkey1MoneyMonkey1 Posts: 104 ✭✭✭

    Check the bottom of your shoe ;)

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,411 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 28, 2018 4:02PM

    That's funny. I found a PCGS label under my workbench for a coin I've never owned. :o

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BlindedByEgo said:
    I find things like that in the last place I look.

    That should always be the case. Why would you keep looking after finding it?? ;)

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh boy, good luck !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:
    It doesn't really matter. It's a raw coin now. I have never understood cracking coins to put in books.

    My problem is that no matter how hard I tried, that coin was not fitting in that little hole with the slab stuck around it. I have always had to crack the coin out to get it to fit in the book. What is your secret? >:)

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Batman23 said:

    @DIMEMAN said:
    It doesn't really matter. It's a raw coin now. I have never understood cracking coins to put in books.

    My problem is that no matter how hard I tried, that coin was not fitting in that little hole with the slab stuck around it. I have always had to crack the coin out to get it to fit in the book. What is your secret? >:)

    My secret is keep coin in slab. If you want a coin to go raw into a book...….buy a raw coin. :o;)B)

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @Batman23 said:

    @DIMEMAN said:
    It doesn't really matter. It's a raw coin now. I have never understood cracking coins to put in books.

    My problem is that no matter how hard I tried, that coin was not fitting in that little hole with the slab stuck around it. I have always had to crack the coin out to get it to fit in the book. What is your secret? >:)

    My secret is keep coin in slab. If you want a coin to go raw into a book...….buy a raw coin. :o;)B)

    I agree to a point. I once bought a 09SVDB raw. I learned a lot from that purchase. It was actually one of my very first posts here. I was able to get my money back and later invest in a PCGS example, which I broke out and put in the book. When the money is close raw vs slab, do what makes you happy.

    That said, because of the slab cracking issue, I am not starting any more books.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Look again with a good flashlight.

  • drei3reedrei3ree Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 28, 2018 4:32PM

    @MoneyMonkey1 said:
    Check the bottom of your shoe ;)

    Actually, I once had one that somehow got inside my shoe...funny story...it was from a 1950-D Jefferson 5c graded PCGS MS67. I was sure it was FS, so I cracked it and resubmitted. PCGS agreed with me, it came back MS66FS!!!!!!! Okay, not so funny. :(

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe a mouse took it for his collection. Ya neva know. Peace Roy

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    That's funny. I found a PCGS label under my workbench for a coin I've never owned. :o

    Really? That's weird. :)

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  • LeroyLeroy Posts: 186 ✭✭✭

  • ms71ms71 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had something weirdly similar happen. It searched a good while for the label but never found it. Months later, I was using the same reference book I had been using that day, and the label was in it. I had closed the book and shelved it before I started the search. Exactly how it came to fall onto the book, and how I closed the book without noticing it is beyond me (it was one of the older blue labels, quite pale). I would make a good search of everything that was on the bench when the drop occurred.

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    Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't no optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,562 ✭✭✭✭✭

    lol!! Thanks for all the comments. The last thing I need to do is empty the work bench and move it. I was reluctant to do this as it doubles as my reloading bench and the stuff inside is rather weighty! That's another reason why I'm not hugely concerned about the label.... I posted because I literally have all of the plastic pieces, but the label seems to have vanished into thin air. I've cracked many a type coin too... this is a first!

    Anyway, an interesting side discussion seems to have emerged. I buy coins that I believe to have superior eye appeal... at least given the constraints of my budget. If the coin is raw... like the Large Cent I recently posted... great. It goes into the book. If it's slabbed... great. It goes into the book too. However, I tend to draw the line when it comes to rarer issues, or coins that have a known record of being counterfeited. For example, when I finished my Lincoln Cent collection, I bought a slabbed 1914-D and left it alone. I bought the 1909-S VDB raw, and sent it out to be slabbed. I just lived with the holes in the book, knowing that I had completed the sets with genuine and properly graded coins. It also made it easier to sell. I took the same approach with my IHC collection... slabbed 1909-S, and I was looking for a slabbed 1877...

    In my current type set, I'll be in a little conundrum with the Classic Head LC and the Seated Dollars, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PM me the picture of your work area ...... I'd be happy to look for you B)
    Do you have a K9?

  • CascadeChrisCascadeChris Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound said:
    PM me the picture of your work area ...... I'd be happy to look for you B)
    Do you have a K9?

    Don't forget to make sure you tell him how to turn on the location metadata on his camera first :Do:)

    The more you VAM..
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,562 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound said:
    PM me the picture of your work area ...... I'd be happy to look for you B)
    Do you have a K9?

    Yeah, have a k9. He puts up a heck of a ruckus whenever someone is at the door. But he's useless as a "retriever" ;-)

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • drei3reedrei3ree Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:

    @Paradisefound said:
    PM me the picture of your work area ...... I'd be happy to look for you B)
    Do you have a K9?

    Yeah, have a k9. He puts up a heck of a ruckus whenever someone is at the door. But he's useless as a "retriever" ;-)

    ...or he ate the label?

  • aus3000tinaus3000tin Posts: 369 ✭✭✭

    It's probably stuck to the bottom of your shoe.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Form a search party... get the neighbors together and a keg of beer... Hot dogs and burgers... but do not tap the keg until after the label is found.. :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe its the new self-destructing label - once you crack the slab the evidence disappears....

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably found it's way back to the TPG to correct the pops - it's magic the way it works. :D

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,562 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OLD THREAD ALERT!

    I found it! The label somehow landed in between the label of a propane tank and the tank itself! I only found it when I was moving tanks around! Mystery solved!! :smiley:

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just over a year to find it, that was a good hiding spot!

    Collector, occasional seller

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe dog ate it :(

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 19, 2019 1:29PM

    @ricko said:
    Form a search party... get the neighbors together and a keg of beer... Hot dogs and burgers... but do not tap the keg until after the label is found.. :D:D Cheers, RickO

    OK @lkenefic , now it's time to follow @ricko 's recommendations. B)

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