Have you ever lost a coin?

Oh yeah, I lost my wife once but she found me, what goes around comes around know what I mean. Don't worry one day they will find you trust me.

 

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Bought an MS 65 full luster 1938 D Walking Liberty Half Dollar several years ago. I decided to put it in a special place because of its value. To this day, I still do not remember where I put it.....

 

I have a 71 Eisenhower dollar that I have a bezel on it that I was using as for my key ring/pocket piece. Picked the key ring up one morning to go to work and guess what? No coin!
After much searching and even more cussing, I gave up looking for it.
About 2 months later, I saw something shiny on the ground near our, shared, mail box and there it was. Staring up at me, the 71 Eisenhower!
I decided that I would try super glue on the "screw on" part of the holder. It worked! About 6 months later, I decided to upgrade the key fob to a 21 Morgan that has been severely cleaned. So far it is staying in place!

 

I had a 1877-S Trade Dollar, 1885 5 Dollar gold piece and a few others turn up missing when I still was a teenager. They were in a coin folder in my desk, then they were gone. I frantically searched for them, tore my room apart, but to no avail.

It turns out, my next door neighbor stole them. He was over at our house, I was called to dinner. While eating, he snuck off to my room and took them. I eventually got them back, he sold them to the local coin dealer, who was the only one in town.

 

I lost a Lincoln cent error once. Couldn’t believe it just disappeared. After searching desk, floor, and clothing I decided to rip out the lining on the desk chair bottom. I found the it.

 

I once found an Indian-head penny in the gutter in Boston. It was in great shape not dirty or anything. I wondered how it got there, how long it was there, etc. Now I can't find it anywhere. I have decided parallel universes are real. The penny somehow traveled from the past into the current time and I saw it on the street, and after a while, it just skipped back to where it came from. No other explanation as far as I am concerned.

 

THOUGHT I LOST AN ERROR BARBER DIME (CLIP), WENT THROUGH ABOUT 100 INVOICES FOR RECENT (THAT MONTHS) COIN PURCHASES, FOUND IT STUCK WITH TAPE TO AN OLD INVOICE, LOL...AND I LATER SEARCHED MY GARBAGE BOX FOR BURNING AND FOUND A FORGOT ABOUT W DIME (MS68) THAT WAS STILL IN MINT SET HOLDER, FORGOT TO TAKE OUT, LOL SO ALL IN ALL, VERY LUCKY

 

I didnt lose a coin or at least none that I know of but I did accidentally throw away a 100 gram 100x1g CombiBar. I had purchased 3 of them a month so earlier.

I was helping someone sell a condo and I got a big discount on the rent and all I had to do was keep the place spotless and agree to allow realtors to show the place.

Well one day one morning I was in a hurry and while straightening up the bedroom I stashed the CombiBar in an old tv box which had lots of bubble wrap in it.
I forgot about the CombiBar and when the place sold, I threw out the box.

Amonth or 2 later I was looking for my 3rd CombiBar and realized it was gone. Thinking back I remember stashing it in the tv box.

What I dont remember is if I put stashed anything else in it that day. At the time I had over 50lb t of silver and I would take it with me in a backpack during realtor showings but this time because the realtor personally knew the other realtor, I just randomly stashed everything.

At least it was only 100g and not anything too valuable. I had gotten them from a major metals dealer close to spot and with the rent being reduced by about $400 a month at least I could justify the loss.

To this day I still dont know if I threw anything else away. I guess that is why keeping an inventory would help even though it wouldn't change the outcome of the loss

 

I put a Lewis and Clark early commemorative temporarily away -- somewhere.
I think I'll find them if I clean up the Man Cave.

Good grief.
That could mean never!

 

Many of us are already classified as "Older Gentlemen", and being forgetful is part of the job description. I will be 71 this month, and I know full well that I am much more of a space case than I was 20 years ago. A year or so ago I put some newly received coins in my pocket, still in the small plastic bags they arrived in. Don't ask me why I did that. Talking 2000 year old silver Indo-Sasanian or similar type coins. Not real high value, yet very neat coins. They got lost, and that was it. So now I make it a rule to not carry coins in my pocket, other than pocket change in the local currency of this country.

 

many times I have lost coins, found a few but most are lost forever

 

I haven't lost any coins but I have spent an inverted dollar bill without realizing what it was... I was 6 or 7 when it happened

 

When I was very young nd inexperienced, I lost just about the smallest coin minted in the U.S. - a California gold 25 cent piece. It was so small that it just ....well.... evaporated - and that’s a catastrophe.

 

I haven't lost a coin since I was in the 3rd grade. The coin I lost was an average circulated 44-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar that I bought with my allowance at the time. I don't know where I lost it for sure, but I believe I lost it somewhere on the school playground or possibly a friend's backyard. Regardless, that is why I don't typically carry a pocket piece anymore.

 

Since everyone's commenting here again, I found the two morgans and indian head a month after posting this, they were on top of my drawer under a book I moved the morning I lost them.

 

It's been a while since I posted my last note, however, strange things have happened to me. I have a detailed list of all my collections. Every once in a while I will look at some things in my collection. I was into my collection this past week and found that I could not find a 2019 Canadian Silver Apollo 11 coin, a rolled up, uncut $2 bills in a green tube, and my Andrew Jackson American President Silver Medal. My wife and I live alone in our home, with no visitors since this pandemic. Anyway, I have a gold plated 2002 D Indiana Quarter that a teller at our credit union traded to me for 25 cents. In fact, it's staring at me now.

 

I managed to lose a GSA Carson City silver dollar which I bought during the sales of the early 1970's.

I noticed the coin missing in the early 1980's although I still have the GSA certificates and cardboard box.

I don't know the date of the coin as the coin was one of the lower grade uncirculated ones where the certificate did not state the date.

The GSA certificates that came with the silver dollar:


GSA Certificate 1


GSA Certificate 2

 

Well then come over to my house and find the gold Apollo commemorative that I lost while I was recovering from knee surgery please..

 

I lost a MS nickel on the floor near my computer . Couldn't find for the life of me . My Wife found in a one minute, I spent 30 , my face when found, Priceless !!

 

Do coins "lost" while passing through ISC>CBP>ISC at JFK airport count? A few there in a period of three years but other than that only one other when I was about twelve years old.