have you ever lost a coin?

I had a 1938 proof set disappear for about six years once, then one day there it was again sitting there on the shelf.

On the other hand I've also had a Mint State 1848 large cent just show up out of nowhere. I'd never purchased one but then one day there it was in a group of miscellaneous coins. Still have no idea where it came from.

 

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Conder... sounds like you have coin gnomes...

I have lost exactly 2 coins in my life. 1 of which was a customers... It was mailed to me to get certified and I put it back in its bubble mailer after examining it and before i sent it in for certification.... then decided I needed to clean my desk. I must have tossed the envelope thinking it was junk. It was a nice brown/red brown AU/UNC... I felt horrible but I made it right with my customer of course. That was an expensive mistake.

The other was a 1942/1 dime that I bought in my teens from a coin shop... and it disappeared between me buying it and me getting home... never did find that one.

 

How does everyone remember?

I do not remember all of the coins I own, so I cannot recall having "lost" one since my childhood. Now, many times I know I own something but do not know where it is, but I just trust I will find it eventually.

My "problem" is finding coins or large groups of coins I had no idea I owned. I got my US coins out of the SD box recently and found some gold in there, as well as other tidbits like a few BU shield nickels, that I have honestly no idea where they came from.

Yeah, I know, I could be more organized in my collection. I simply own a lot of coins, and do not wish to catalog and photograph them all. The only time I organize is when I am putting together a group for a presentation, like one I am putting together right now on Hepthalite coinage and nearby Central Asian empires in the 6th to 8th century.

 

Definately have lost a few over the years. One of the sad ones I don't know what it was. I just remember I had 5 semi-key date Lincolns sitting on my desk for a few months. Well, a window was open and a strong wind blew the coins off my desk. I found 4 of them and the 5th one was nowhere......and I mean it VANISHED! I ripped the entire area apart and looked for 2 hours.....GONE. I looked several more times after that and it was apparently beamed up to the Enterprize. LOL I think it was an MS 1911-D Lincoln.....arrrrggggggg.

Ever since, I really hate wind!!!

 

Gremlins!

 

Was there carpeting in the room?

 

I lost all the coins I collected in the 60's as a child. I also remember selling my indian head collection for about $2 to a coin shop (a Whitman folder that was about 3/4 full). Wish I could go back in time.

 

My deceased brother was a poly-substance abuser. Among what he stole from me was half of an incredibly rare $100 changeover pair. He actually thought he was doing me a favor by only stealing the one, as I had "so much".

He's dead. His mate is a wretch who begat a child who in her turn is probably destined to be an even worse wretch.

Despite all, collecting is still a refuge for me. As it is for you.

 

This is a sore subject for me..in 2006 I lost a whole box of coins, 150 coins, and since then I still wake up during the night when it crosses my mind, and tear apart yet another area of my home with hopes of finding it. I have the empty box, packing slip and my inventory list..but no coins. If I ever figure out who did this, I will go after them with a vengeance. It's not like they could have turned them easily. But on the off chance I misplaced them, I still keep looking.

 

LOL I loose one once in awhile, a coin that has bids, so when this happens I send them a better coin in the same denomation
the customer always says . All I had to do was send the cost of the coin I lost
But now I have a index system wich saves a few problems.

Sandy

 

Yep, a Morgan. I was about 6 or 7 years old and spending a week at my uncles farm one summer. A salesman or an aquaintance that came to see my uncle reached in his pocket and gave it to me. I know it was an early 1900's but I don't remember the date. I'm not sure when it dissapeared, I just know that when I emerged from the fog of my late teens and twentys it was gone.


Interestingly I also found a coin about a month or so ago that I didn't know I had. I was vaccuming under my bed when I heard the rattling of something metal in the beater bar. I stopped the vaccum and checked it and found a '64 proof nickel. I don't collect proofs and I have no earthly clue where it came from.

 

Thought of another one, but it might have been stolen rather than just disappeared. A 1902 proof V nickel. Vanished some thirty years ago. So if anyone sees a 1902 proof V nickel with a fairly large square lamination on the back at 10:00 let me know, it's mine.

I've had others disappear temporarily but that was because I had a cat that also collected coins. She liked Large cents and colonials. I never did find out where she kept her collection. She'd go though my newp's dump the ones she didn't want and carry off the ones she liked. A couple weeks later I'd catch he walking across the room carrying one of them and take it away from her. She didn't like small cents though. Those she carried off and buried in the houseplants.

 

I had a cat who would take currency I'd leave on my dresser at night. I thought I was going mad because money that was there when I went to bed was gone in the morning.

Finally, I saw him take a bill in his mouth and scamper off. Turns out he was making his own savings account behind the stove. I found over $100 there, and from then on kept my money in a drawer.

 

I bought one of the GSA Carson City silver dollars in 1974.

Sometime it disappeared during a move in the early 1980's.

I have the box and certificate (signed by Richard Nixon!),
but the coin and plastic holder are gone.

The certificate was the kind which did not show the date,
so I do not know what the date was.

 

I lost a capped bust half when I moved to a new home as a kid and little later I lost a flying eagle cent but found that when I moved again in 1995.

Thankfully I havent lost anything since.

 

Since the advent of the Patriot Act, all our coins are fair game for Fed Agents to steal. It is NOTHING FOR THEM to request a combination for a safe during an opportunistic investigation. Moreover, I lost a 1909 VDB doubled die- also out of a LOCKED SAFE. If you want safety, do not post on OPEN FORUMS, what you have. Remember Mr Crawford being targeted for his 1996 Wide AM, folks. That is what can happen. I also see new joinees posting "show us your best gold!!" on coin forums. That shold read "Your best gold for us to steal!!". I mean really, who but a federal agent could break a safe so as to remove your ability to detect it? I am not being alarmist, I am stating what has happened to me and MANY others. Ron Kreckman of Havelock N.C (Deceased) had FIVE three legged buffalos stolen from him: ""I CANT FIND THEM ANYWHERE!!! he exclaimed. They were all Gem BU. according to him. He had no reason to prevaricate: " I am at a loss, I have looked everywhere' They were the cornerstone of his collection, Brothers. You should put your coins in a safe at a trusted friend's house. Or in the safe of an attorney. Or simply quit buying expensive coins so long as the feds can play security theater and lurk in your home stealing at will under color of unconstitutional law and Patriot Act edict.

 

Nickel three cent piece (ms condition) ............................*cringe*

 

Same with me , was having some electrical work done at my house , I hired my cousins son , a great kid who brought a helper , didn't like him from the start , well I was keeping 2 boxex of ten slabs each in the basement rafters in those Intercept Shield slab boxes . Well a week later went to look at them and one was missing , lucky it wasn't my good coins , but the missing box still had some good coins in it , from a 1913 MS-66 Buffalo to a MS-64 Three cent nickel with the coolest die clashes on it . Well I can't proove he took it or if I hid it on myself . Still wake up thinking about them sometimes and go looking at the chance I did hide them . Bummer either way .

 

There are some great stories in this thread!

The only significant coin I ever lost was a beautiful dark toned George V Florin. I found it in an old Chesterfield couch and it was pristine with the prettiest toning I have ever seen. I put it on my dressing table and in the morning it was gone!

 

That must be horrible...I'm so sorry.