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Congrats on the find!

Best of luck with your lost coin. I had a couple "go missing" and thankfully they found their way back. I had a Republican As sitting on my dresser before I put it away. I left the room, got busy, and when I came back it was gone. Later I found it under the dresser. I believe our cat got it and knocked it down then under.

 

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The old boy will turn up.

 

I'd have ripped the floorboards up!

 

Carpet is the worst. You drop a coin and they bounce and or roll to places you never thought possible. Its happened to me many times. Most of the time I find the coin much later at some point. They dont always turn up. The last coin I lost was a Balbinus Antoninianus. I still dont know what happened to it (I actually think I shipped it to the wrong person who decided he won the lottery and kept quiet). Let me know if anyone ever sees it:

 

I'm always dropping my detector finds, they usually turn up in the hoover, that's when I remember to check the hoover cylinder before chucking it out. Luckily my memory is so appalling that if I have lost something I usually forget about it so ain't bothered.

 

I've never lost a coin permanently. I did drop one on a rainy day on the footpath of a London bridge while crossing. I realised an hour later. I found it. It was a miniscule bronze. I did drop one on a low-class breakfast diner floor and only realised it was gone several hours later. Also a very small coin. Retraced various steps to many different places; the moment I walked into the diner the waitress said "I guess you've come back for your old coin". I did throw a coin into a trash bin outside my block of flats once. It was still in an envelope from which I had unwrapped the two auction purchase coins I was expecting. About six hours later I wondered whether the dealer had also sent a retail buy made a week after the auction in the same envelope. Messy and not well scented, but retrieved.

I have made it a habit in life to stay lucky.

 

That "Perdomo Small Batch 2005" makes me want to try that cigar.
I gave up smokes a few years ago. CAO Brazilia was my favorite.