Most expensive coin you have lost......

GFourDriver · May 31, 2007 2:56AM

Lost a 1936 Lincoln Brilliant Proof raw in a plastic flip a few days ago approx PR64RB.

STONE · May 31, 2007 2:58AM

DO you know how or where you lost it?

STONE · May 31, 2007 2:59AM

I don't think I've lost any coins

Maybe I should go check

ziggy29 · May 31, 2007 3:02AM

I had a couple of AU trimes a few years back in flips. I have no idea where they went. Haven't seen 'em in five years and we've moved three times since then.

GFourDriver · May 31, 2007 3:03AM

I think it went out with the trash. It was on my desk at work kind of off to the edge and I think it got brushed off into my waste basket. Very very small chance it was stolen due to only two other people having access and both are highly trusted.
............last seen heading to the dump....lol

NowhereMan · May 31, 2007 3:03AM

I can't remember ever losing anything from my collection.

I did SPEND some things from my collection when I was a very broke college student many years ago. Nothing too serious, but worth more than face (I'm recalling some MS Ikes, Kennedy's and some older circulated currency...)

Rex

UncleJoe · May 31, 2007 3:04AM

I misplaced a 1932-D Washington about a year ago.

I think I accidentely mixed it in with my bulk silver but I just haven't taken the time to go through the rolls to look for it.

Maybe I can run an eBay auction guaranteeing that one lucky bidder will receive a 1932-D quarter.

Joe.

DJCoinz · May 31, 2007 3:14AM

I lost a broadstruck 1998 quarter a while back. I have no idea what happened to it.

RedneckHB · May 31, 2007 3:18AM

I once lost a fake 1914-D Lincoln cent.

And once I had a very expensive PR 66 Matte Proof sitting in an envelope on the kitchen table. The next morning I couldnt find the envelope. I asked my wife and she said she put it in the trash.

After a little garbage picking I was able to find the envelope and the coin.

relicsncoins · May 31, 2007 3:20AM

1911 quarter eagle. I lost it for 5 years and then found it in tub of loose change I was getting ready to take to the bank to cash in. It was in a large mixed nuts tub that we keep by the washer and dryer that my wife throws all of the loose change out of pockets before she washes the clothes. Fortunately I dumped the tub out to make sure there was no bolts, nails or any other things she tosses in there and happend to spot it.

JJ

lordmarcovan · May 31, 2007 3:22AM

Lost for good?

An EF 1797 British "cartwheel" 2 pence. Lost in a move, when I relocated from NC to GA. Worth around 80 bucks at the time, in the early to mid 1990s. Now a three-figure coin.

Here is a borrowed picture of somebody else's coin.

Because these things were massive, thick, heavy pieces of copper weighing several ounces, they are prone to rim bruises, but mine had decent rims.

They were some of the very first coins struck by steam power. Impractically large and cumbersome for pocket change, they were very unpopular in their own time but are extremely popular with collectors today. I have owned a few since, but none quite so nice as the one I lost.

OH, YEAH. Here's another one that still really bugs me to this day, though my monetary loss was only about fifteen bucks...

I won a really nicely engraved Seated dime love token on ebay. Holed at the top. I bought it for my Holey Coin Vest, as I have a few love tokens on there, mostly Seated dimes. I got the thing in the mail, carried the envelope to work, took the coin out, threw away the envelope, and carried the coin in my pocket the rest of the day. Then I thought better of that so I stuck it into my cigarette pack. Went out for a smoke break later. Smoked my last deathstick from the pack. Tossed the pack in the trash. Totally forgot about the coin in there.

Realized my stupidity about an hour later, went back to frantically dig in the trash, and found it had been emptied. And taken to a giant compactor.

I wasn't about to re-enact the Star Wars trash compactor scene for the sake of a $15 Seated dime love token, albeit a nice one.

Somewhere, somehow, in the far distant future, alien archaeologists will study us. They'll be digging in a late-20th-century landfill and remarking on all the amazing human artifacts. Then, all of a sudden, they will get a shock that both amazes and baffles them. How did a coin from the 1880s wind up in a trash layer from 1999?

Moral of the story: don't smoke, kiddies. It makes you stupid.

MadMarty · May 31, 2007 3:24AM

I have seemed to misplace a 1893 HK-222 in PF64UCAM, it's around the house somewhere I just can't remember where, oh yea on 2 rolls of Roosies.

johnnymondo411 · May 31, 2007 3:34AM

I have misplaced my 1964 peace dollar. If anybody finds it please return it to me.

morganbarber · May 31, 2007 3:35AM

I misplaced one of my best coins for a couple of months- an 1883-CC Morgan in PCGS MS64DMPL. It was out when a workman that I did not trust came over so I hid it. I couldn't remember where for 2-3 months. In the meantime, of course I worried that he may have found it.

jobiwan115 · May 31, 2007 3:38AM

I have (had?) a 2-Peso Mexican gold coin dated 1945 that I got in a grab bag, and haven't been able to find it lately. I thought it was in my SDB, but couldn't find it last time I was there. Well, it was loose, maybe it fell somewhere in there, I'll have to check again.

rec78 · May 31, 2007 3:38AM

Not lost --but i accidently spent a 980 (grease filled die on the one actually a 1980) SBA. Probably worth about $50. O well. Bob

Longacre · May 31, 2007 3:47AM

I've never lost a coin of value.

tahoe98 · May 31, 2007 4:13AM

<< I once lost a fake 1914-D Lincoln cent.

And once I had a very expensive PR 66 Matte Proof sitting in an envelope on the kitchen table. The next morning I couldnt find the envelope. I asked my wife and she said she put it in the trash.

After a little garbage picking I was able to find the envelope and the coin.

>>

lucky for the ol' lady eh!

Shamika · May 31, 2007 4:16AM

I had a friend loose a 1955 DDO in mint state RB many years ago before coins were slabbed. He suspects he may have accidently put it in his pocket and spent it.

BlackBeard · May 31, 2007 4:26AM

Nothing real valuable, but I have a cloth bank bag with plenty of Ikes, SBA's and SAC's in it that I "hid in a safe place" before going on vacation one year. It's still safe, somewhere. Mostly safe from me though.

secondrepublic · May 31, 2007 4:51AM

Not a coin, but I lost a $50 Starbucks gift card recently !

lordmarcovan · May 31, 2007 5:03AM

Gift card, you say?

I lost a $35 gift card to Michael's. The big craft store. Ladymarcovan is into scrapbooking, and I was gonna give it to her to get herself some scrapbooking supplies, as sort of a small minigift add on to her B-day present in February.

I made the mistake of telling her I had bought it but misplaced it, and that it should show up.

It hasn't.

itsnotjustme · May 31, 2007 5:07AM

I found a coin I thought I lost. Disappeared in about 2003. Moved in 2004, and shipped my collection to my parent's safe deposit box. Found in my files in 2006. I guess it dropped into the desk drawer and slipped into a file.

mrcommem · May 31, 2007 5:25AM

I lost a 1/4 ounce gold eagle. I think it is in my house somewhere. I keep thinking it will show up.

AUandAG · May 31, 2007 5:36AM

I carried a VG 79cc morgan for a while until I lost in out of my pocket on a plane ride from
SF to Vegas. Ooooops.
bob

N8 · May 31, 2007 5:42AM

Getting into golf recently I decided to take along a nice ball marker/conversation piece with me last week. Well shallow pockets and riding around in a golf cart for 4 hours did not fit into the equation... so I lost it somewhere on the course.

Don't worry though... it was only a 1941 Merc in XF condition that was in my junk silver bag... thankfully that is the only coin of any value I have lost - so far

RichR · May 31, 2007 7:02AM

Believe it or not, my father lost not one BUT TWO uncirculated 1932 gold $10 Indians.

And here's the story:

My mother was born in 1932 and it was one of only a few (special) coins minted that year that could be used to commemorate her birth. So my father bought one (grade Gem BU), had it mounted in a gold loop and hung from a gold chain. He then presented it to her as a engagement gift. And we all lived happily ever after until it was stolen from her dresser drawer during a house burglery in 1973.

So...for their 25th anniversary, he bought her a replacement coin (MS-63) and necklace to surprise her...and when he got home from Stacks in Manhattan he reached into his pocket to show me...and his pocket was empty. The manilla envelope had either fallen out or his pocket was picked!

So the next day, we both returned to Stacks, bought lucky coin No. 3 (they only had an MS-65 in stock and he was desperate) and a week later, he presented it to mom, who was overjoyed. Until the day she died, dad never told her about the freaky second lost coin...he felt like such a fool. And now he's gone too...and the coin is VERY SECURELY sitting in a safe deposit box, becuase my wife is also terrified to wear it (for obvious reasons)!!!

Texast · May 31, 2007 7:27AM

1857 Flying Eagle Cent - AU 55, My Son took it for "Show and Tell" when he was in the second grade (I had no idea he had it) found it missing three months later and the truth came out, it fell out of his backpack on the way home (hole in the bottom from dragging it around for two years). My soulution, I bought him a new backpack.

Swampboy · May 31, 2007 7:41AM

1916-d dime. Good.

I know the house in N.Y. it's in.
I had a tin of coins I'd collected from the early 60s and long about 1973 my 3 year year old daughter learned to climb up my dresser and play with them. This was one of those old, old houses with big gaps in the floor boards. Well you know the rest...I spent the next year looking and never found that dime!

Irony; it's her oldest that got me back into coins a few years ago.

PinnacleRarities · May 31, 2007 7:50AM

I've been unable to locate an ammo can, that I last saw in 2002. It had a few misc. coins including some SAEs, and some circulated type coins, but more importantly was it contained a couple $500 Bills. I purchased three of them while I worked in the coin shop back in the late 1980s, and sold one in 2001. That was the last time I saw the ammo can. I've searched the house over, several times, and have now given up, and assume one of the workers from a bathroom remodel, or very outside shot that one of my house guest made off with it. While I trust everyone that stays at my house, there is no explaining what happened to the can. It still could be hidden in my house. I have since gotten everything out and keep it all in my safe. There are NO gold bars hidden in my garage.

goldboy · May 31, 2007 7:57AM

None lost to date.......................

balisthx · May 31, 2007 8:02AM

i lost a small bag or it got stolen from in my house, which contained 38 proof merc, 42 or 43 proof silver jeff, 42/41 fine merc overdate, unc brn 09-s indian cent, fine 3 leg buff, bu 38 d/s buff, and a coulple unc indian cent. and other misc, to this day i still can't find them. steve

OffCenter · May 31, 2007 8:06AM

My wifes mothers new husband (sounds trashy eh?) works at a brinks type coin counting facility. He pulled a cup and saucer type error (two broadstruck coins stuck together during minting) and wrapped it in tissue. Brought it home and was going to give it to me as a gift. Their Grand daughter was over and she had a cold and runny nose. Lots of tissues went into the trash that day along with my gift!

It was one of the first year issues of the state quarters! I get sick feeling when thinking about it.

morgansforever · May 31, 2007 8:18AM

Doesn't qualify as most expensive, but I lost a circulated 96P Quarter, hi AU.

There was a heavy die crack from the eagle's eye, straight across to the rim, looked really cool.

I called it Laser Eye Eagle, lost it drinking with buddies, really t'dd me off.

speety · May 31, 2007 8:44AM

A quarter...maybe if not a dime

droopyd · May 31, 2007 10:08AM

Once lost a 1909 VDB Lincoln, raw but probably a 64RD, that slipped out of my pocket on the way to the parking lot from a Santa Clara show about 15 yrs ago. Only paid about $15 but I was bummed.

droopyd · May 31, 2007 10:10AM

<< Moral of the story: don't smoke, kiddies. It makes you stupid. >>

Depends on what you're smokin'....

Edscoin · May 31, 2007 11:09AM

I lost a 14 D Lincoln cent about 15 years ago when I moved, or at least I had it before I moved and haven't seen it since.

LostSisler · May 31, 2007 11:28AM

Is everyone reading this thread checking their collection and inventory? lol I did.

I "lost" two slabbed double eagles out of my case one day a few years ago. Still mad about that.

TennesseeDave · May 31, 2007 11:48AM

I didn't lose it,but the U.S. Postal Service lost an 1875 proof 20 cent piece for me about 7 years ago.I was sending it to be sold on consignment and the package arrived damaged and empty.Luckily I had insured it for $1500.00,which was actually less than I had originally paid for it.I was trying to save a few bucks and it ended up costing me a few hundred.

Coxe · December 8, 2007 11:13AM

A high four-figure DMPL. It is somewhere, but couldn't find it in any of the safe deposit boxes. I must have taken it out to doublecheck the attribution a while back. It'll end up being a page marker in a book or something.

greymars · December 8, 2007 11:26AM

Not coin related, but I had just over 3000 comic books stolen from me back in 1995 or so, when I was getting ready to move from NH to FL

Gary

gil · December 8, 2007 11:31AM

My wife lost her wedding ring about 4 yrs ago. 3/4 ct solitaire with a customer made ring guard that had saphires. it looked like a flower with the saphires on the outside and the diamond in the middle. It was in our old apartment. we turned it upside down. I was also selling on ebay and it may have fallen in a box she was helping me pack.

I would have returned it but that's me. We did get another ring with a different design.

BBN · December 8, 2007 11:40AM

I lost a 1 ounce GAE somewhere in this house a few years ago. Who knows, maybe I'll get a nice surprise and find it when we rearrange furniture

AUandAG · December 8, 2007 11:43AM

Lost my 79cc pocket piece on a flight from SF to Vegas.

bob

edited to say, I didn't realize that I already answered thin back in May!
bob

AUandAG · December 8, 2007 11:48AM

<< I have seemed to misplace a 1893 HK-222 in PF64UCAM, it's around the house somewhere I just can't remember where, oh yea on 2 rolls of Roosies. >>

Yeah, I lost some merc rolls a couple of years ago......showed up UNDER the door sill of my safe!
Check your safe, mine had fallen off the lower shelf and rolled under the door ledge.

bob

TwoSides2aCoin · December 8, 2007 11:52AM

<< I've never lost a coin of value. >>

Every coin I ever lost had value. Please send me your pocket change

lasvegasteddy · December 8, 2007 11:54AM

so i had bought a vf 21-d dime,a vf 21 walker and a vf 21 slq..."now lost"...it could of been worst as next was the vf 21-s nickel to be in that date set...it still hurts

Shamika · December 8, 2007 12:11PM

I lost a mint state 1943-P War Nickel 31 years ago (I was 10) and have never forgotten it. It wasn't worth much, but it's the principle of the thing.

Shamika · December 8, 2007 12:15PM

<< My wife lost her wedding ring about 4 yrs ago. 3/4 ct solitaire with a customer made ring guard that had saphires. it looked like a flower with the saphires on the outside and the diamond in the middle. It was in our old apartment. we turned it upside down. I was also selling on ebay and it may have fallen in a box she was helping me pack.

I would have returned it but that's me. We did get another ring with a different design. >>

My wife lost her (my) 1.0 ct solitaire engagement 7 years ago in a very careless manner. We're still happily married, but it was touch and go for a while there.

IGWT · December 8, 2007 12:17PM

I fumbled a quarter as I pulled up to a toll booth.

Most expensive coin you have lost......

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