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Message:: [QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1161324, member: 15445"]I’m posting this thread in the hope that someone will learn from it and NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THAT I MADE. I was handling an old AU silver coin that is valued at more than $100.  It was my coin and I was handling it in my house.  This coin had remained in AU condition for a couple hundred years.  As a coin collector, it is my duty to protect & preserve the coin for future generations of coin collectors.  [Every member of the ANA probably knows that this is one of the rules that you agree to when you become a member of the ANA]. Back to my story- I had removed the coin from its 2x2 in order to take a photo.  I used my standard wooden toothpick to slice open the window of the original 2x2.  I then carefully handled the coin and was finished with it.   THIS IS WHERE I MADE MY MISTAKE.  Instead of immediately putting it into a new 2x2, I made the awful mistake of sliding it back into the original holder & went to bed.  Sometime later (it might have been the next day or the next week), I moved that 2x2 and the coin fell out & hit the floor.  It is a soft carpeted floor but the coin bounced around & contacted something hard.  I knew it hit something because I heard the sound of metal striking metal.  I couldn’t believe that I dropped a beautiful piece of history & probably turned it into a problem coin.  After saying the usual prayer, I picked it up & examined it to find no damage.  I thanked the coin gods & put it into its new holder WHICH I SHOULD HAVE DONE BEFORE! The moral of this story is; Don’t leave a coin laying around in a broken flip or 2x2.  You can forget that it is unprotected & drop it like I did.[/QUOTE]

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