Your worst coin accident.

my son dropped some of my (still) unsearched BWR halves, broken out and loose, down the vents and into the ductwork. Won't be retrieving those till we move....

 

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I bought a $10 gold Spouse (Jefferson). I opened the plastic case to get a better look at it and it fell to the floor, sustaining a nice dent.

When I was 11, I sold all the Indian heads my grandfather gave me (about 20 coins) for about $2 to a local coin dealer in NY.(this was in the 60's). I still am angry about how he took advantage of a kid. Of course, the coins were probably common dates in terrible condition.

 

When I was a kid I thought I'd clean up my dad's collection. I gently used a soft cloth, and for the very dirty ones, some mild soap and water with the cloth. These were all circulation silver, but still. I put a LOT of time and care into that as a kid thinking I was doing the right thing . . . .

But a few years ago I moved, had my collection in a few boxes in a shelf in the basement. Placed some of my homebrew on a shelf above . . .got busy, forgot about it, had kids . . .a couple of years later, go to find the entire collection covered in sticky, moldy goo from exploded beer. Obviously all the albums and paper were trash, and all the coins had to be cleaned again

 

I Cleaned an 1847 Hawaii Cent......

.....with Tide laundry detergent! I had an almost complete Hawaii coin set with the 1847 cent, 1883 dime, quarter, half & silver dollar....only missing the nickel. Needed some money so decided to sell the coins on eBay. The coins were in a Capital case so I was removing them one at a time to take pictures (outside in sunlight) for the auction. While I was taking the pics of the cent, the UPS guy showed up. I absentmindedly stuck the cent in my jeans pocket....and promptly forgot about it. Jeans went in the laundry basket, got washed and dried. A few days later I finally got back to doing some eBay auctions and discovered I was missing the 1847 cent.....eeeeeks! It took me a while to remember what happened and sure enough the cent was still in the now laundered jeans. Nice and clean and pretty, but totally stripped of over 150 year old patina. Talk about a bonehead move..........Terri

 

Dropped a beautifully toned. 50 dime in the bbq pit at my frat house I was mad couldn't get it till I got the tongs outta the kitche by that time it was fire damaged and worthless

 

I found a Wisconsin low extra leaf, left in on the dresser one morning meaning to put it in a 2x2 later. Came back and found out the wife picked it up and tossed it in the change jar and took it to the bank to add to our daughter's savings account.

Lesson learned: Do not leave coins out where the non-coin inclinded wife can get them.

 

I remember the I-15 looking like Mordor.

 

GREAT NEWS!!! I found the half dime! It was in my mommy's car under the back seat! So excited

 

In the process of cracking a mint-state Morgan out of an ICG holder, I smacked the face of the coin with the wire cutters I was using to pry the slab open, creating a deep gouge on the bust's profile, one that would ultimately keep the coin from numerically grading at PCGS.

Not fun... Not. Fun.

-Brian

 

With my brother, when I was about 12. We put a bunch of silver coins --- dimes, I'm sure and Morgans and such into a mason type jar. Buried it under the house in a crawl space.

We moved (1970ish) and to my knowledge left it there. The house is still there, and I went over and asked to look, but there has been remodeling in the garage/basement since, and the crawl space is not accessible.

lost........

 

I blew a token out from between my fingers
once with compressed air.

 

Invest in some liquor and a bulldozer. It may work.

 

Not an accident, but when I was a kid my mom took a kitchen clock and glued silver coins to it. A Morgan at the 12 o'clock. A Franklin at the six. Silver quarters and Mercuries glued to the rest.

 

I tossed a steel cent into my bag I dump at the bank. It is only worth 10 cents. Other than that washing coins in the sink that had no premium and they went down the drain.

 

I did the same thing witha 1917 Ty1 Standing Liberty Quarter it was an AU55/58. So now I just push the coin thru the plastic Then drill a hole in it and nail it to the wall

 

Most of my mistakes go back to my drinking days. What seems like a bargain after 375 ml of Jim Beam doesn't always look so good the next morning. No I didn't go back and ask for a refund, You gotta live and learn. I did call my son one time after too much booze and told him he should have my 14D wheatie. It's now one of his favorites. Yeah I quit, it got too expensive.

 

I wouldn't say this was an accident. It's probably more rookie mistake. I did around $20 dollars worth of penny roll searching a week with no way to get a good look at every detail on the coin so I would strain me vision so much I went from 20 20 vision to about 18 17 vision. Now my mom won't let me do any searching with my glasses or my loop. Sucks because I some how a few scratches though the center of my glasses so now it looks like every coin I have has a scratch in it.

 

I know I bought a couple coins from a PM shop and he let me exchange them for something else. I bought a couple coins lately, then posted him here. After getting opinions here about them, specifically a dime that looked like a problem coin I decided to return them. I asked to exchange them for a dollar face of junk silver since silver was low and paid a little more for it and that was that.

 

When I went through my 'toning phase' lets just say I took a nice enough 1921-D Morgan, took some of my sister's shampoo (I had read that shampoo has some sulfur in it..) and proceeded to put the shampoo on the obverse of the coin and leave it out on our driveway. This resulted in a horrible dark smear of toning which a dealer who later bought it for melt, convinced that the morgan had been buried :/

 

When stapling a 40's Lincoln proof into a 2X2, I accidentally stapled the coin. Oops! :headbang: