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  • semikeycollectorsemikeycollector Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 4, 2025 8:24AM

    Kid lost Indian! (cent at 9 years old just bought for me)
    Dad bought another!
    I wanted both!

  • chesterbchesterb Posts: 985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Postage lost 1794

    (limiting to 3 words is hard.)

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,026 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am here.

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 9,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1989 Market Crash

    Investor
  • TimNHTimNH Posts: 227 ✭✭✭✭

    "Delivered!" ... Details, repaired.

  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,799 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Found the grail!

  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 4, 2025 10:21AM

    CUWEBSITE CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

    Edited for full disclosure: I may have cheated here, and this is really four words :|

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sad: Been Banned Again! 🤣 😉

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • Morgan13Morgan13 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't find it

    Student of numismatics and collector of Morgan dollars
    Successful BST transactions with: Namvet Justindan Mattniss RWW olah_in_MA
    Dantheman984 Toyz4geo SurfinxHI greencopper RWW bigjpst bretsan MWallace logger7

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You guys that "Can't Find It" must have massive collections or inventories. Not sure if that's a good or bad problem to have.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold is up!

    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,051 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinbuf said:
    Gold is up!

    Gold is down. :s

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • TurboSnailTurboSnail Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Littleton Coin Company ;)

  • Alpha2814Alpha2814 Posts: 204 ✭✭✭

    Bought already, forgot

  • TypekatTypekat Posts: 579 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A true story
    Technically in just 3 words:

    Same coin, 2 crackouts: 63>62>61

    30+ years coin shop experience (ret.) Coins, bullion, currency, scrap & interesting folks. Loved every minute!

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 36,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    dipped and dropped

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1 word versions:

    Keeper

    Buried

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Cougar1978 said:
    1989 Market Crash

    Stuffed in backfield.

    Seated Half Society member #38
    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭✭

    Sealed Proof Sets

    Original Bank Roll

    :)

    The Philadelphia Mint: making coins since 1792. We make money by making money. Now in our 225th year thanks to no competition. image
  • waxman2745waxman2745 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭

    sad coin story: "evidence of cleaning"
    happy coin story: "collecting with Dad"

    Adam
    buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball cards
    also collecting US & Canadian silver coins
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Uncle found 1909SVDB


    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • tokenprotokenpro Posts: 907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    First 1914D Maytag

  • tyler267tyler267 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭✭

    Storry that stills makes me sad almost 50 years later:

    When I was in high school, I lived in a smaller town and worked after school in one of the local coin shops. In those days lots of shops kept a coffee pot going and had chairs, they became a place that local collectors would gather and talk coins.

    A recently retired guy with an amazing coin and gun collection moved to our town, and he and i became friends. I spent a lot of Sundays at his house eating ice cream and talking coins. When he had his house built it included a secret room where he kept his collection. The year i went away to college, a couple of scumbags showed up at his house tied both he and his wife up and stole both his coin and gun collections. He still nice and helpful and had a lot knowledge, but he was never the same, It was like they took part of his life that he knew he could never get back. Not in 3 words but that is my collecting story taht still makes me sad after all these years.

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's down again
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • sanddollarsanddollar Posts: 442 ✭✭✭

    @tyler267 said:
    Storry that stills makes me sad almost 50 years later:

    When I was in high school, I lived in a smaller town and worked after school in one of the local coin shops. In those days lots of shops kept a coffee pot going and had chairs, they became a place that local collectors would gather and talk coins.

    A recently retired guy with an amazing coin and gun collection moved to our town, and he and i became friends. I spent a lot of Sundays at his house eating ice cream and talking coins. When he had his house built it included a secret room where he kept his collection. The year i went away to college, a couple of scumbags showed up at his house tied both he and his wife up and stole both his coin and gun collections. He still nice and helpful and had a lot knowledge, but he was never the same, It was like they took part of his life that he knew he could never get back. Not in 3 words but that is my collecting story taht still makes me sad after all these years.

    "Not three words"

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭✭✭

    History, Artistry, Joy

    Seated Half Society member #38
    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • sanddollarsanddollar Posts: 442 ✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:
    Sad: Been Banned Again! 🤣 😉

    Happy: "He's banned again!"

  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Less than melt.

    K

    ANA LM
  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NFC CHIP!
    WAYNE

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Free shipping!
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tax free auctions!
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,526 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lost in mail.

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,051 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No sales tax! :)

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unattributed Variety Cherrypicked.

    oih82w8 = Oh I Hate To Wait _defectus patientia_aka...Dr. Defecto - Curator of RMO's

    BST transactions: dbldie55, jayPem, 78saen, UltraHighRelief, nibanny, liefgold, FallGuy, lkeigwin, mbogoman, Sandman70gt, keets, joeykoins, ianrussell (@GC), EagleEye, ThePennyLady, GRANDAM, Ilikecolor, Gluggo, okiedude, Voyageur, LJenkins11, fastfreddie, ms70, pursuitofliberty, ZoidMeister,Coin Finder, GotTheBug, edwardjulio, Coinnmore, Nickpatton, Namvet69,...
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It’s not real

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 36,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    a test cut

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • JeffersonFrogJeffersonFrog Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Happy. Quarterly Special crossed!

    If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.

    Tommy

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 36,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    discovered 1794 dollar

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • Cranium_Basher73Cranium_Basher73 Posts: 3,560 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Inaccurate inventory listing.

    Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.

  • FlyingAlFlyingAl Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Found on Ebay.

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's been cleaned!

    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Price on request

    Mail Delivery exception

  • taropatch99taropatch99 Posts: 254 ✭✭✭

    Have you seen my neglected penny stash?

    "Mean Verdigris Green"

    Formerly known as deadmunny
    Positive transactions with: dcarr, JWP, Cent1225, slantycouch, dontippet, Gerard, Scrapman1077, USMC_6115, rah1959

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,998 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Recently got this 🤓

  • BlackinBlackin Posts: 23 ✭✭✭

    "Worth HOW much??"

    =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    Absolute n00b! :)
    Inherited a few thousand coins from grandparents. Mostly Indian and Lincoln wheats. Trying to learn the art of collecting!!

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,585 ✭✭✭✭✭

    (Prices) subject to change.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cents are discontinued.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • taropatch99taropatch99 Posts: 254 ✭✭✭

    Unsearched penny rolls

    Formerly known as deadmunny
    Positive transactions with: dcarr, JWP, Cent1225, slantycouch, dontippet, Gerard, Scrapman1077, USMC_6115, rah1959

  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Car ate it.

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice. B)

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