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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1243967, member: 26302"]I have others, but would share a friends: He was a metal detectorist, and not a coin collector. He did have a Red Book, though, and knew the rare dates of common coins. One day he got a hit, and it was a few lincoln cents. He was rubbing away at the dates, and a 1909 was there, a little more rubbing and an S appeared. At this point he hurriedly flipped it over and rubbed at the bottom of the reverse. Out comes a VDB, on a nice XF coin. Puts it in his pocket, and takes it home. Once home soaks it to take the dirt off, cleans the coin........and a hole at the top of the coin drops out. Someone back in the day had put a whole in a XF 1909 S Vdb. I saw him the next day and he was still almost crying about it. It WAS an amazing coin, short of the hole. I would have loved to have it in my collection if it wasn't for that, (and most colelctors as well). It was ok, he was an early collector, so got good stuff frequently. He eventually filled an album just with his detector finds, (yes the holed sVDB was there), but have a nice AU strong reverse 22 plain, and a XF 14d, so still a nice set for free. Unfortunately, he got conned by a dealer when he sold silver in 1979, and the dealer talked him into selling the entire set and about 5000 extra wheats he had to him for $300.[/QUOTE]