Your worst coin accident.

Let's hear your story of your worst accident with a coin like dropping one, cleaning one the wrong way, etc.

 

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Well, I don't clean coins, but My worst coin accident was while I was doing some nickel searching, rolled up my nickels and took them to the bank. Came home to go through a roll of buffalo nickels, and couldn't find them. Definitely worth the $18 loss.

 

never had an accident but have made a few dumb decisions in the hobby when i was a novice collector. i remember my very first buy was a lot of 5 v nickels, had no idea bout coins at all i paid 25 bucks and they were worth about 10 combined, overpaid like crazy once on a sl half dime cause it was small and i figured they were rare lol mistakes of mine from the past that have been corrected well

 

Worse than dropping or scratching or whatever.

I bought a 1964-D Type C Washington that was graded genuine. It has some light roller damage of some sort so I gured a couple of months in the pocket and I could wear it down.

Unfortunately, I spent it.

Secondly, I bought a 1970-S DDO-002 Kennedy from a fellow CTer. I moved in Nov last year and now cannot seem to find the coin!

I gotta start paying attention!

 

I dropped a proof half down the kitchen drain once.

 

Well, I don't clean coins, but My worst coin accident was while I was young i was organizing some of my collection one of my friends came an stole a dime from me a 32 dollar dime might i note in ms67 pcgs and i didnt notice... till i went to his house and saw it sitting in his book shelf... and i said that mine.., he said i took it from you and high school you dork.. i got it back and beat the c rap outta him and yes where still friends..lol..


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There's an accident every single time the 3 year old raccoon that lives with me sneaks off with a coin I don't want her to touch.

 

A few years ago I had purchased several coins from a local coin shop. When I got home I was removing the staples from the 2X2s and the staple remover slipped (I'm usually very careful) and it put a scratch all the way across the obverse of the coin. I was so mad at myself. Thank God it wasn't a super expensive coin or I probably would have sliced my wrists!

 

not realy an accident, but just being a kid
When i was 6 (long time ago) i got some coins from my grandfather.
What do you do with coins when you are 6, you play with them and you loose them all.
Now that i want to go for the hobby of collecting i found some pictures of coins just like the ones i had when i was 6, and some of them seem to be worth something,...
Conclusion: My own 6 year old boy wil not be allowed to come near my collection

 

My 6yo & my 3yo both help me. I've taught them the difference between the cents we CRH & Daddy's dont touch coins. They think it's such a treat to get to hold a slabbed anything, LOL. My biggest fear is that the raw coins may end up paying for cigarettes & under age drinking parties in about a decade or so

 

Not really an accident, but I was cleaning a group of ancients once and there was a silvered coin in the lot. I thought about pulling it out, but thought it could use a soak in distilled water too. Well, the next day I saw the coin was literally dissolving from the inside out. I tried to move it in the water and all that was really left was the thin outside coating of silver. and it collapsed. I know the coin was pretty far gone when I got it, but can't help but think if I hadn't put it in the water it would still be here.

 

when I was a new collector, 2 months ago, I paid 200$ for 2 silver coins that worth less than 100$ .
zach67005 :
That is good, I cant assoon as my 2 1/2 years old is old enoughI will buy him his own coinsI think they will be great for teaching him some english, physics, maths and geography .

 

About three years ago when my daughter was probably 2 1/2 years old, I was selling a batch of indian head cents on eBay. I usually only sell about ten at a time so I can keep it all organized and had then all on a coin tray by the computer. After the auctions closed, I was getting them ready to ship and I was short one. Of coarse I suspected my daughter, but she wasn't talking. I turned the house over three or four times and after a day or two I was resigned to contact the buyer and tell them the bad news. Before I did though, I needed my eye loupe for something. At the time I only had one of those cheap 10X triplets that swing out of a metal housing......whuala! There sat the indian head cent! She had been looking at the coin with the loupe, bless her heart! Unfortunately it was the exact size of the glass and it was now stuck! It took a little tapping on the side and it finally fell out. It all worked out in the end, but lesson learned with coins and toddlers. I am pretty proud of the little girl for watching and learning herself and showing interest in things that her Daddy is into.

Matt

 

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The solution to that is, always leave some useless dollar bills easily accessible so they see these first before going for the coin collection.

 

As an 8 y.o. I used a Flying Eagle Cent belonging to my dad as a flipping coin for a sand lot football game. By the time the game was over it was no longer in my pocket. I have since scoured the field with a metal detector without any luck.

 

When I was about 5 or 6 I was visiting my grandparents. My parents had bought me some Whitman folders for Nickels, Dimes and Quarters so I had something to do that summer. The Quarter album was for silver Washington Quarters and my Grandma helped me fill every single slot. A few days later we went to a port nearby and they had those binoculars that you put two quarters into to look out over the water. I had the Quarter folder with me and well, one thing led to another... Lets just say Grammy was more than a little po'ed when we got back.

 

This previous CT thread describes mine:

http://www.cointalk.com/t170244/

 

I found a coin in the dirt when I was about 9 or so. I brought it in, soaked it in some water to find the cent to be more green than brown. I decided to "clean" the coin with my mother's jewelry cleaner. I soaked it, rinsed it, soaked it, rinsed it, repeated several times. Afterward the common cent was looking not much different but my bare hands I was also dipping in the solution were sort of red. An hour later my father was running me to the hospital because my hands blew up like balloons. I was either allergic to the solution or it was moderately toxic to my skin. Either way lesson learned, don't clean coins.

 

one of the coins i lost (see a couple of posts above) just poped up on this forum
(very propably not the same coin, but its a coin like the one i lost)
Its a coin from WWII.
My grandfather was captured by the Germans during the invasion in Belgium, and he needed to work for them (it was that or get killed,... )
And every time he could he would steel something from the Germans if it was possible (hey, it was war, then you taken what you can get right? )

One of the coins i lost that he gave me was one like CamaroDMD has posted here somewhere on the forum


No idea what a coin like that is worth nowdays, but i can imagine if i find out, that i will slap myself

So i repeat, dont give coins to a 6year old