Coins- They were lost but now their found

Some of you may know that I got a new Computer . Well, after cleaning up my old Computer stand I recently discovered 2 old coins and a Token that I lost earlier in the year. Lost but You are found !!
What are you going to find in your computer station like me ?
1944 holed penny, 1936 Mercury Dime and an Old trolley token from the 1940's, I believe with what appears to have some kind of die crack ??

 

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I had knee surgery two years ago and lived in my Easy Boy recliner for a month. Spent a lot of time studying my coins. What else could I do?….. After I recovered I was searching for something. Probably a TV remote and shoved my hands down in the sides of the chair and found a quarter eagle that I had lost.

 

I'm confused?
Were the items inside your computer?

Oh I read your statement again.. at the computer station.. Hehe got it

 

No silly. My Computer STAND .

 

Isn't a large portion of your collection "...lost but now found...?

 

When my time comes, someone will find all kinds of stuff in my home office. When I used to travel a lot, I would hide stuff to get it out of site before leaving. I'm sure I forgot stuff but sure it's still in the office somewhere.

 

Somewhere in my office is an envelope with two one hundred dollar bills in it. I put it in a safe place six years ago. I have no earthly idea where that safe place may have been.

 

hiding things from yourself are usually the hardest to find and always found by accident while looking for some other hidden items, then it's "oh yea now i remember" Darn what a great hiding place!

 

Note to self: make sure all the gold is back in the SDB before any surgery that involves being at home and on painkillers.

 

I tend to find coins I forgot I had when I go through my PCGS, NGC and Whitman boxes. Too many to list and too forgetful to remember most....

 

I can certainly identify with this statement! I will "put something in a safe place" and, many times, forget all about it! Then, when I remember it, I have to search and search to find it. The funny thing is, I always find it in the last place I looked!

 

Not me, i keep looking for things after I find them.

 

Now that's a good idea! Maybe I could find some of the other things I've hidden?

 

If I'm not mistaken, finding it is always in the last place you looked, because you just found it!

 

Yeah, that's a "family" joke. My 88 year old Father-in-law is always saying that. So, I did that to "honor" him.

 

With Alzheimer, every day is a new day of discovery. LOL

 

I am sure that most coin collectors have misplaced a coin or two over the years. I lost a coin a few years ago, and recently found it. Anyway, in order to TRY to have a system of keeping up with my coins, etc. I bought some boxes a few years ago that I bought for keeping my model magazines in. After while, I disposed of the boxes. In an effort to find a way to use the boxes, I decided to have a box for each year the coins were purchased. I also decided to maintain a binder of all the documentation of each coin that purchased that year. All gold coins are physically keeped in my safe. As a retired accountant, I am used to maintaining detailed documentation. For each year, I start off by printing the U.S. Mint Schedule each year. I include all the documentation of each coin in order of the date ordered as well as the date it was shipped. Since the Mint doesn't keep the date the coin is received, I enter the date I received it. I keep the Mint's Packing Slip/Return Label for each coin with the all of the other coin documentation. I would send a copy of one of my EXCEL spreadsheets, but there is too much information that would interest someone.
Anyway, I didn't start this process until I started my purchase of the Mint coins in 2008. That binder is Book 1, Years 2008-2016, up to Book 5, Year 2021. I've set up Book 6, Year 2022. Since the Mint has already sent out their Product Schedule for 2022, I have started Book 6, Year 2022.
Since I set up my system, I've have not lost any coins. If anyone has any recommendations to improve my system, I would appreciate your help.

 

About 10-12 years ago I hid a Lincoln Cent Dansco album. I believe I put it in the attic under or in 4he pink fiberglass insulation. I've never seen it since. I don't like going up there or messing with the insulation as the fibers tend to go airborne. So, I've left it alone for now. I know I could wear a 95 respirator or better but then the fibers get onto and into your skins. I kinda miss not seeing the coins but I know they are in a safe place where nobody will find them. At least while I am around.

 

I have an easy system that works as long as I do my part.
Everything I buy gets listed in a paper ledger the day I receive it. The ledger has all the information needed to add the coin into my software. At this point I have a nice record of everything.
The ledger lets me be slow entering the new coins into the software until I build up enough to mess with.

I get in trouble because I seem to keep a new coin on my desk for a while and loose track of it.