It's "Fuhgeddaboudit" Friday!! Post yours as well.............

Hello all! It's called, " Fuhgeddaboudit" Friday! Please post a Coin, Token or Medal that you have lost, misplaced, stolen, sold, damaged etc...
You don't have to post a picture of the coin, just a story will do.
GOT IT?
I'll go first...................
When I was small (around 7) my father, mother and I went to a Moose club outing in MA. It was fun and they had a putting green where you would try to putt the ball in the hole in one shot. My father mind you never played golf a day in his life but somehow made it in (beginners luck?). He won an Ike Dollar that he gave to me and said to hold on to it. Well, I held on to it for years before for some reason lost track of it and miss it because he no longer is with Us but the memory is still there but fading.
I believe it was similar to this coin.....
HAVE A TERRIFIC WEEKEND ALL!

 

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One time I had a1892 Barber Half TDR, it was in a 2 x 2.
I decided to take it out of the 2 x 2 to send it in to be graded.
As luck would have it, I managed to damage it.
I was able to scratch it when I pulled the 2 x 2 apart.
Of course the 2 x 2 was stapled.
Lesson learned, if I need to remove from a 2 x 2 I now prick the plastic then remove it.

 

OH, why did you have to remind me of my staple incident. I purchased this coin and it arrive right before a road trip. I decided to throw it in my bag for study on the trip. The coin next to it was also in a 2x2 and the rubbing while traveling put this scratch on it, and now I have the label to remind me. It's the only coin I have in a details holder due to something I did.

 

@Chris B
I feel your pain

 

I was a paperboy in the early 1970's. I had one customer, (lived in a building with 3 other customers), but insisted I bring paper to his 4th floor apartment.
That year for Christmas the entire world decided to give the Lifesaver 20 roll book lifesavers for Christmas. I got about 35. Every box the same size and that is the box that guy handed me.
Christmas morning I open his box and there is a 1921-S Walking Liberty Half in VF 20. His note said, Thanks for the paper the last 4 years. They tell me you are nuts about coins so hope you don't have one of these. Sorry about the candy. I have a sweet tooth. Never saw him again because he moved away that week.
Also. I would know that coin anywhere in the world because I am the one who put a staple scratch near the left side of the date. James

 

Not really a coin, just a token but here tis. Took a train trip with mom to Baltimore when I was just a runt. We stayed with friends who lived there. I went fishing in the "what used to be thick woods and farmland" on the edge of a new suburb. Went to a double header 1969 Baltimore Orioles game. Took a tourist trip to the docks and went aboard this ship. I don't remember how or why but I ended up with this trinket. I had it for years on end, but I have no idea what happened to it. It's not worth anything but it always brought back memories of that trip when I looked at it.

 

I have three items which are currently on that list.

When we had the interior of the house repainted and the floors done, it was like moving. Things had to go to storage. Here are two items I have never been able to find.

This political piece was worn by those who led parades and rallies from William McKinley when he was running for president, probably in 1896. Finding an example of this piece that is not badly dented is hard. I have not been able to find it.



Ditto for this Nixon inaugural medal which is mounted in a stand. The Nixon campaign gave these out to big donors after he took office in January 1969.



Finally I can't locate this 1797 "cartwheel," I took to a club meeting in box, and have not been able to locate since then. I have another that is certified.

 

We moved into a brand new house in 2000. It was built on a wooded lot, close to an old farm. On occasion while working in the yard I'd find bits and pieces of old glass. So, one day I whipped out my metal detector and started searching. I got a shallow quarter signal and figured it was a clad lost by one of the home builders. After using a butter knife to dig it up, I was shocked to be holding a 1838 Large Cent with a gouge. Learned a hard lesson that day.

 

Here's a flying cent, if I had known it was scratched I wouldn't have had it graded, I would have said Fuhgeddaboudit!

 

@Timewarp . I assume your new house is somewhere in the East? Congrats on such a find. James

 

It was in South Elgin, IL. We moved to Utah in 2020 when I retired.

 

I got home from the Fun Show years ago with a slab box full of proof Indian Head Cents. I had to head right back out of town so I put the box somewhere safe. Many years later I finally found it.

 

I am going to double down. That Large Cent reminded me of my first Large cent.
In 1976 my hometown held an open air Festival in the Park.
To my surprise there was a coin dealer set up and he had the first Large Cent I had ever seen. It was priced $20 and I had $7 to my name but I was determined to get that coin.
The coin was a beautiful chocolate brown 1857 with great detail (vf-xf) but someone had taken a pin and scratched a bright red circle inside the "O" on the reverse. I pointed out the damage and offered my 7. He shot me down, but the day was young and so was I.
All day long I pointed out the damage to anyone who picked the coin up. They would quickly put it back and the dealer would stare daggers at me.
5 minutes to close on that first day he came over and stared at me. Then he said, "Give me the $7 and don't come back tomorrow". I gave him the money and got the coin. James

 

There happened to be a coin show at a beach resort while my family was vacationing there. One dealer had two ex-jewelry gold dollar coins he was willing to let go for just a bit above melt. I couldn't resist, and those are still my only two gold dollars. (I bought and sold one other one that had also been made into jewelry).

At least, I think they're still my two gold dollars -- because I tucked them away someplace safe, then took one to a coin show, then put it back. In the ten or fifteen years since, I've found each one multiple times, but never both at the same time.