Ever lose a coin?

goose3 · January 28, 2008 9:47AM

I have a Silver Eagle that I put somewhere in my room and I cannot find it. I thought it was in my bookshelf but I can't find it.

It was maybe a year or so ago.

I'm going nuts trying to figure out where it is.

Guess I hid it a bit too well.

commoncents05 · January 28, 2008 9:47AM

When I was a kid, my sister and I switched rooms, and I had lost 2 hobo nickels in the closet. She found one and insisted it was hers, but my parents new better and gave it back to me. Still missing the other one.

-Paul

tmcsr69 · January 28, 2008 9:47AM

Unfortunately, the older I get, the more this happens. I rarely lose them for a year, but have found coins along the way I didn't even realize I had and wondered where I got them. Old age is a real trip.

IGWT · January 28, 2008 9:48AM

Did you consider that you might have imagined it?

Edited to add: OK, who wrote the OP? It looked like Goose for a while.

ziggy29 · January 28, 2008 9:48AM

Two AUish trimes. I last saw them when we lived in San Jose, and when we moved to Houston I never saw them again. That would have been nearly five years ago.

IGWT · January 28, 2008 9:51AM

<< wow, that was wierd.

I started the thread, or at least I thought... >>

That's your imagination at work once again.

goose3 · January 28, 2008 9:52AM

wow, that was weird.

I started the thread, or at least I thought...

goose3 · January 28, 2008 9:54AM

cmerlo1 · January 28, 2008 9:56AM

I have 2 books of 2X2's that are missing. I know they're here, but I can't find them...

ambro51 · January 28, 2008 9:57AM

Well.....I spent it.

an 1864 2 cent piece I carried in high school.

one day, the cafeteria got it by mistake, It 'felt' like a quarter....

JRocco · January 28, 2008 10:02AM

<< wow, that was weird.

I started the thread, or at least I thought... >>

Holy Canoli goose, Harry Houdini had nothing on you

Can you also levitate objects around you ?

fruitloops · January 28, 2008 10:12AM

I lost a 1964 90% silver half dollar at a bar once.

NHSBaseball · January 28, 2008 10:12AM

I am currently so P.O.'ed at myself for losing a coin that I went to great effort and expense to obtain that I can hardly think about coins. Someone who goes to the same doctor that I do is walking around with a $575 1837 LM-4 AU half dime that I saved for a month to buy. I had just gotten the coin out of the mail on my way to the office- had to drop trousers in order to get 2 shots, and apparently it fell out of my pocket while I was getting a shot in the butt.
I just want to hit myself. Hard. Repeatedly.

AUandAG · January 28, 2008 10:20AM

Yes, carried a '79cc Morgan in AG in my pocket (first and only pocket piece and it lasted a couple of years is all).
Lost it on a United Airlines flight to SF. Just fell out of my pocket as I slept, I guess. Won't carry another for
fear of doing the same again!
bob

fcloud · January 28, 2008 10:26AM

I was once at a coin show and this guy brings in a bunch of mutilated silver and gold coins. He said he worked at a paper recycling facility and they find this kind of stuff all the time mixed in with the paper. I guess if you think about it you can see how a coin can get misplaced and mixed up with a bunch of papers, so check your paper before it goes to the recycle bin. Base gold and silver are not worth as much once they at all bent up and scratched, that guy sure got a nice bonus just for working at the right place.

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I did lose my 1921-D Walker for about two years. It did show up right under my nose when I wasn't looking for it anymore.

LincolnCentMan · January 28, 2008 10:32AM

I lost a 32-D quarter in F-VFish once.... never found it.

-David

BECOKA · January 28, 2008 10:38AM

I lost a couple PR70 Sacs at work. I made the mistake of leaving them in a drawer and now I can't find them.

Sunnywood · January 28, 2008 10:39AM

If I remember correctly, I think TDN & Legend once misplaced the Eliasberg 1885 trade dollar !!!

Now that would scare the crap out of me !!!

DJCoinz · January 28, 2008 10:40AM

<< If I remember correctly, I think TDN & Legend once misplaced the Eliasberg 1885 trade dollar !!!

Now that would scare the crap out of me !!! >>

Yikes!

FullStrike · January 28, 2008 11:05AM

I recently moved a shelf and found an AU58 1921 Peace Dollar that had been missing for 2 years. It wasn't as ugly as I had remembered it as being when I first bought it off eBay.

I guess losing for a while it was a good thing?

tightbudget · January 28, 2008 11:31AM

The worst I've done is spend 35 cents face value in silver. Not much else besides that.

Broadstruck · January 28, 2008 11:37AM

I tucked away some So Called dollars and Expo medals 15 years ago... for the life of me I can't find em. Stuff wasn't worth selling back then so I know I still have em... somewhere???

Midus1 · January 28, 2008 11:41AM

I lost 4 nice Morgans I was going to send in for grading. I put them away about six months ago and finally found them tucked away in an old penny roll box about 2 weeks ago.

Bruceswar · January 28, 2008 11:51AM

I have lost a coin. It hurts to speak of the Oregon Trail I lost

seateddime · January 28, 2008 11:55AM

yes, I once lost a $500 bill, it was not really lost just I forgot where I put it. 2 years later it turned up in a book. I wasted 20 hours looking for it.

HalfDollarGuy · January 28, 2008 12:14PM

Funny that you mentioned this. I spent a good chunk of last weekend looking for an UNC 1938-D Walker that still hasnt turned up. I know I bought it about 3 years ago (I even registered it in the spreadsheet I keep and made a note that I thought it was probably dipped). its gotta turn up one of these days...

direwolf1972 · January 28, 2008 12:57PM

How about a whole series.

I have no idea where my complete set of Canadian small cents are.

BBN · January 28, 2008 1:35PM

I tucked away a 1 oz Gold Eagle 4 years ago in this house and cannot find it to save my life. Cannot remember where I put it. I'm still sick over this.

Griv · January 28, 2008 1:38PM

I am losing coins all the time. They seem to move around on their own. If you happen to see a stray coin then it is probably one of mine.

Please send it back or at least be kind to it.

CoinKing1969 · January 28, 2008 1:42PM

What is bad is you find a coin you didn't know you have lost. It makes you wonder how many other coins you have lost you don't know about.

vplite · January 28, 2008 1:48PM

I have misplaced a coin but have looked around and found it. It is weird, I always find the coin in the last place I look!

direwolf1972 · January 28, 2008 2:00PM

Well that took a little while.... after reading this post I got to wondering where I put the set I previously mentioned.

Found them and took a few photos so I'd remember what they look like before I loose them again

Canadian small cents

tightbudget · January 28, 2008 2:02PM

<< I have misplaced a coin but have looked around and found it. It is weird, I always find the coin in the last place I look!

>>

Isn't it always? I mean why keep looking after you've found it...

vplite · January 28, 2008 2:14PM

<< 

<< I have misplaced a coin but have looked around and found it. It is weird, I always find the coin in the last place I look!

>>

Isn't it always? I mean why keep looking after you've found it...

>>

Great point. I feel like such a fool.

clarkbar04 · January 28, 2008 2:34PM

Yep, on more than one ocassion. One time I bought some commems for my brother's birthday. They were in a brown paper bag. I had another brown paper bag that I put trash in and must have mistaken one for the other and threw it away.

And for the life of me I cannot find this coin, it is still on the loose somewhere - possibly armed and dangerous.

Amigo · January 28, 2008 2:46PM

I purchased 4 BU gold coins in IRAN back in 78. I last saw them about 5-7 yrs or so ago. I don't remember ever taking them out of the particular SDB that I've had since 79. I've looked in all the safes, the paricular SDB many times, for the life of me, I can't figure out what happened to them. I never had them out in the open, never showed them off, I'm completely baffled. All I can figure is that I keep missing them in the SDB. I swear, everytime I go thru the SDB looking for them I get visions that I"m looing my mind, so I haven't looked for a while.

lordmarcovan · January 28, 2008 2:46PM

Many times.

Lost an XF 1797 British "Cartwheel" 2 pence when I moved from NC to GA. Being huge, thick, heavy pieces of copper, these coins typically have rim bruises, but this particular piece had nice rims. It would fetch low three-figures today.

Accidentally threw a really ornate Seated dime love token away in the trash another time. I had brought it to work with me, stuck the flip in my cigarette pack, smoked the last ciggy in the pack, threw it away, realized my error about a half an hour to an hour later, frantically went back to dig through the trash, and found that the can had been emptied and everything dumped in the giant compactor. Centuries from now, archaeologists from the future will be excavating the dump and will discover an 1887 love token dime in a 1990s trash layer and be mystified. Smoking makes you stupid, kiddies- don't do it.

Coxe · January 28, 2008 2:49PM

Usually, I think I am pretty well organized. However, I recently found I cannot locate one of the finest examples of a very rare VAM. Haven't seen it in two years and wanted to get it attributed and into my registry set. I cringe to think where I suspect it was lost. Never know, might be stuck in a book rather than in one of the bank safe deposit boxes. Had me more rattled the other night.

prooflike · January 28, 2008 2:50PM

I've lost an entire 1961 proof set - in the envelope, etc.... eventually found it while not looking for it - forget where I found it, but it wasn't where it was supposed to be.

lordmarcovan · January 28, 2008 2:50PM

<< I've lost an entire 1961 proof set - in the envelope, etc.... eventually found it while not looking for it - forget where I found it, but it wasn't where it was supposed to be. >>

Geez, man, I do stuff like that every week.

If you saw Clutter City, USA (my home, in other words), you'd unnerstand.

northcoin · January 28, 2008 3:24PM

I was going through an old file drawer and came across an envelope with a coin in it I had long since thought I'd traded. Best of all it was a high relief Saint in an MS-62 PCGS holder that I'd won in an auction years ago and one that I had wished I'd hung onto. Little did I know that I still had it.

leothelyon · January 28, 2008 3:40PM

A good question for a TGS.

Leo

relicsncoins · January 29, 2008 3:07AM

I lost a 1911 2 1/2 dollar gold piece. It was missing for about 5 years. One day I decided to take a big tub of loose change to the bank. This is change that my wife pulls out of pockets when doing laundry. I dumped it out on the carpet to make sure there was no foreign coins or other material, and low and behold there it was. Not sure hot it got in that tub of loose change.

JJ

FredWeinberg · January 29, 2008 3:15AM

I've copped to this in other similar threads,
but in 1986, about 6 months after PCGS started,
I threw away a PCGS Proof-65 $4 Stella.

It's still sitting in the Simi Valley Trash Dump, probably.......

SmallSizedGuy · January 29, 2008 3:16AM

Two coins. A 1880-CC rev 78 and a 1891-CC Morgan I had set aside for grading. Still have not found them.

cyclonus11 · January 29, 2008 3:18AM

I found a red AU/unc cent from the mid-late 1950s on the floor at a book store. I didn't even get the chance to get a good look at it. I have no idea where it went.

The only other coins I've lost were to a thief.

THIEVES

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