The wife threw out a gold coin that came in yesterday's mail

Ive had a few similar situations with my wife picking stuff up at the PO Box.

Glad that it was found.

It also makes me wonder how many coins end up in landfills every year.....

That would have been a great day for the trash man. What a tip that would have been.( if he actually found it) Glad it worked out.

So does she get flowers? And bravo for probably winning the award for title that created the most clicks of any thread in CU history.

Least it wasn't a Stella like Fred!

@Boosibri said:
Least it wasn't a Stella like Fred!

Bochiman already beat you to it.

close one!

I've been there too.

You definitely have to keep an eye on the wife when she picks up the mail and an even closer eye on the recycle bin!!

That sure beats an old wive's tale and am glad to read you didn't beat the old wive's tail.

My ex was jealous of Susan B Anthony and some old Shoshone woman.

Not as bad as a $4 Stella being thrown out by a major dealer. It was never recovered.

Covanta estimates that U.S. residents throw away an estimated $61.8 million in coins every year by dropping them, vacuuming them up or otherwise losing them, as reported by Bloomberg.

Mine wants to throw out anything smaller than a 1/2 dollar size.

@Relaxn said:
Covanta estimates that U.S. residents throw away an estimated $61.8 million in coins every year by dropping them, vacuuming them up or otherwise losing them, as reported by Bloomberg.

My kids toss change in the garbage can all the time.

I'm rather sure the Mrs would like to throw some of my coins out, like the ones she called me about when I was in Europe and she opened my checking account statement - with the big arsed cheque to Stacks clearing.

My wife cleaned of the top of our dresser. I Had a 10K gold ring that I had found on the street laying there It was pretty beat up but gold. She tossed it in the trash. Fortunately I noticed the cleaning and asked about the ring. She thought it was trash. I Dug it out of the can and put it away

When I was collecting obsolete currency sheets they were sent to me in hard cardboard mailers.. I thought I was being clever in leaving groups of them in a couple holders stacked up with empty holders and basically left in the open in the dining room (rarely used).
Wife cleaned up and put all in the basement and forgot that 6 mos to a year later that I warned her that several weren't empty.
One contained a 27K order from Hugh Schull, another a Abraham Lincoln signature, and other misc. sheets and ephemeral.

Yes, on an additional cleanup of the basement she threw the stack of mailers away.

I've had large daily swings in my stock trading and usual able to shake it off within a day or so but here there're been a number of reminders when a new catalogue had one of the same bank sheet (usually having a profitable estimate)

In 15 years I have probably only brought up the subject 6 times to my wife.

Hard at times thinking that all of it was probably made into toilet paper

@BIGAL2749 said:
When I was collecting obsolete currency sheets they were sent to me in hard cardboard mailers.. I thought I was being clever in leaving groups of them in a couple holders stacked up with empty holders and basically left in the open in the dining room (rarely used).
Wife cleaned up and put all in the basement and forgot that 6 mos to a year later that I warned her that several weren't empty.
One contained a 27K order from Hugh Schull, another a Abraham Lincoln signature, and other misc. sheets and ephemeral.

Yes, on an additional cleanup of the basement she threw the stack of mailers away.

I've had large daily swings in my stock trading and usual able to shake it off within a day or so but here there're been a number of reminders when a new catalogue had one of the same bank sheet (usually having a profitable estimate)

In 15 years I have probably only brought up the subject 6 times to my wife.

Hard at times thinking that all of it was probably made into toilet paper

At least it's not your ex-wife now..

That is a heartwrenching story..

3 or 4 times of those times that I brought it up to her was when I'd get a new catalogue that featured the same bank sheet (usually estimated at what would have been a nice profit).

That was one of the troubling aspects of the ordeal. Those cat. would remind me of the ordeal and I just wanted to forget..

I recently shipped $600 worth of banknotes and a Morgan to a customer, the wife had received the package said there was a coin and just a bunch of cardboard in the package and threw it out. The husband being honest and having purchased from us before knew the banknotes were in those cardboard folders and offered to take the hit on the cost. However seeing as how he is a good customer who has purchased multiple times from us we refunded the price of the notes.

Now I make sure to write on every cardboard folder "Merchandise inside please open"
...

Almost lost one a few years ago

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/980380/the-perils-of-cleaning-your-coins

@Hemispherical said:

Old thread alert.

I wish our host would flag these somehow. I always feel like a cretin when I respond to the OP.

Isn’t there a saying, “only invest as much as you’re willing to recycle?”

Fun thread... Old or not...