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Ok...coin related question.....what is the strangest thing you had a coin shipped to you in?

kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
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I believe we are all pretty excited when we get to our mailbox and determine there is a little treasure inside (coins) image

So we all talk about the great coins we just received, the colors, the varieties, the errors, the rips, the dogs, and everything in between but.....

What is the strangest, most bizzare, or most interesting thing you have ever had a coin shipped in???
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I bought a 1962 Proof Quarter off Ebay the other day:

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and it came inside this, with some cardboard wrapped around it..................

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Now I readily admit I am a pack rat but a bubble mailer that's 14 years old.....that even has me beat image

Ok I know that he probably purchased the coin from this company and just kept the slab in the original mailer all these years but I still thought it was pretty interesting image
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    pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Got an eBay purchase once that was wrapped in just a piece of cardboard, that they kept wrapping into an envelope shape and mailed like that.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Who cares about the wrapping, that proof quarter is awesome image
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    kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭


    << <i>Got an eBay purchase once that was wrapped in just a piece of cardboard, that they kept wrapping into an envelope shape and mailed like that. >>



    That's how this was wrapped as well image but fortunately it was placed inside this vintage buble mailer first image
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    lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
    i bought a lot of around 50 or 60 morgans a few months back...The seller wrapped each and every coin in bubble wrap

    In Loving Memory of my Dad......My best friend, My inspiration, and My Coin Collecting Partner

    "La Vostra Nonna Ha Faccia Del Fungo"
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    DrPeteDrPete Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭
    Did you really mean to publish your entire address to this public forum?
    Dr. Pete
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    AthenaAthena Posts: 439 ✭✭✭
    I don't collect quarters, but that one looks beautiful! image
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    tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    I purchased a case of that gummed paper tape a few years ago. I use anything to ship in as I just wrap it in the brown gummed tape. I use soap boxes a lot. Cost about a dollar to ship in. The stuff last forever too - I am still on my first roll.
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    kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭


    << <i>Did you really mean to publish your entire address to this public forum? >>



    It's not mine...and it wasn't his.....and since it was somebody's 14 years ago...I guess I am ok with that? image


    This Quarter is yet another example of the deals you can get on Ebay when you have some skills at judging nice coins from bad scans.....paid $9.99 for it and I was the only bidder:

    Seller's pics...




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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,012 ✭✭✭✭✭
    an ACG holder image

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a very nice Quarter nice pickup. image


    Hoard the keys.
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    gtstanggtstang Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cut up cereal box taped around a group of coins.
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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭
    One of our members received a coin packaged in an old shoe from another forum member, but the shoe was for the member's dog.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Nike shoe box but it did have a PCGS blue box full of slabs.

    Most of them are now Here. I allready had the quarters and halves got the others from one of the members here.

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    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
    At ANACS one day, we received a large (20 by 24 inch or so, but only an inch or so thick) stiff package completely embalmed in wrapping tape. We couldn't find any seam along an edge to get a knife into to cut the tape. Finally we took it to the work bench and put a cold chisel to one corner and bent it back a bit to see what the hell we were working with.

    The guy had cut three sheets of masonite to the same dimensions, then routed out a hole in one of them big enough to hold the coin and paperwork, and then made a sandwich with the coin in the middle. He then put about 50 finishing nails all around the circumference, and then wrapped it in the tape so you couldn't pull out the nails.

    Of course, the coin was a replica.

    TD
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    A Marlboro Red box.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
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    kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    Anybody get a coin shipped in a rubber chicken???? image
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    MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    "At ANACS one day, we received a large (20 by 24 inch or so, but only an inch or so thick) stiff package completely embalmed in wrapping tape. We couldn't find any seam along an edge to get a knife into to cut the tape. Finally we took it to the work bench and put a cold chisel to one corner and bent it back a bit to see what the hell we were working with.

    The guy had cut three sheets of masonite to the same dimensions, then routed out a hole in one of them big enough to hold the coin and paperwork, and then made a sandwich with the coin in the middle. He then put about 50 finishing nails all around the circumference, and then wrapped it in the tape so you couldn't pull out the nails.

    Of course, the coin was a replica.

    TD"


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    Contest over. That's got to top them all.
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
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    DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭


    << <i>At ANACS one day, we received a large (20 by 24 inch or so, but only an inch or so thick) stiff package completely embalmed in wrapping tape. We couldn't find any seam along an edge to get a knife into to cut the tape. Finally we took it to the work bench and put a cold chisel to one corner and bent it back a bit to see what the hell we were working with.

    The guy had cut three sheets of masonite to the same dimensions, then routed out a hole in one of them big enough to hold the coin and paperwork, and then made a sandwich with the coin in the middle. He then put about 50 finishing nails all around the circumference, and then wrapped it in the tape so you couldn't pull out the nails.

    Of course, the coin was a replica.

    TD >>

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    aka Dan
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    mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    A pile of silver dollars came wrapped in a diaper from an obgyn

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

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    PentimentoPentimento Posts: 1,367
    That was a really good masonite story image
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    pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭
    Not strange but unusual. The shipping box was covered with stamps from the 60 and 70's. Coolest package I ever received. Still have it.
    Montana State Quarter Die Clash

    Box of 20
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,503 ✭✭✭✭
    I received an IKE dollar that was wrapped in a baggie and then neatly taped to a cardboard insert! When I opened the package I really freaked until I could see that the coin was wrapped in a baggie after I peeled the tape back!

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    The creativity of the cheap EBay seller never ceases to amaze me!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    A lot of times when I have to ship 2 slabs, I pack them in blue 70s proof set boxes. I have gotten a few E-Mails that the buyers were freaked out!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Not strange but unusual. The shipping box was covered with stamps from the 60 and 70's. Coolest package I ever received. Still have it. >>



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    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
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    oldwestgoldoldwestgold Posts: 337
    A cheap regular 'ol letter envelope. Needless to say the PCGS slab was busted all to hell, from going through the letter sorting machine. Coin was undamaged but I still returned it.
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    pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭
    Russ, some ebayers mail this way it seems. Getting rid of their inventory. Being a past(not current) stamp collector I think it is sacrilege but they are going for less than face.
    Montana State Quarter Die Clash

    Box of 20
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    MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    I just received a recent eBay purchase in one of the ubiquitous corrugated cardboard Safe-T-Mailers. While this may be common and accepted practice, I found it unusual that there was no envelope - the seller merely placed the address and postage on the outside of the cardboard mailer and shipped it, complete with instructions on the outside "JUST PEEL APART TO OPEN". Somehow the item made it here safely, and no one felt the urge to 'peel apart' the package. Fortunately, it was also a very inexpensive item. Oh, and I paid $4.00 for postage and handling for this 1 ounce uninsured package.
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Had some raw coins shipped to me in a toilet paper roll. I'm not kidding.



    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
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    compromonedascompromonedas Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭
    A coin wrap in a Victoria Secret magazine. he is now in my favorite sellers listimage
    Keithimage
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    ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    I bought what I thought was a type B unc silver quarter. I might have know something was wrong when I got it for a dollar.
    It wasn't unc. It was a brilliant gem proof. It came in a safe-t-mailer period. The glue was contacting the coin. It now has selective toning.

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