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<p>[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 2651509, member: 15445"]Several years ago I bought a truly unsearched lot of walking Liberty half dollars for spot price. I paid about 3x face so I think it was about 25 years ago. While searching them, I assembled a pretty complete date set & gleaned one mint state coin dated 1920. Wow. I kept that one separated from the lot & remember placing it on the top shelf behind me. I never saw it again. I searched those thousands of half dollars over & over again but never found it. I believe it accidently got pushed to the back of the shelf & dropped behind the wall someplace. Ooops.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I found a 1961 double die half dollar that I forgot I had purchased. The plan was to get it slabbed & it just got forgotten for years. I found it & sold it for a big chunk of cash which promptly was spent on an ancient coin<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> & a vacation trip.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus far, I've only <u>temporarily</u> misplaced ancient coins. Nothing has yet been lost like the mint state Walking Liberty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 2651509, member: 15445"]Several years ago I bought a truly unsearched lot of walking Liberty half dollars for spot price. I paid about 3x face so I think it was about 25 years ago. While searching them, I assembled a pretty complete date set & gleaned one mint state coin dated 1920. Wow. I kept that one separated from the lot & remember placing it on the top shelf behind me. I never saw it again. I searched those thousands of half dollars over & over again but never found it. I believe it accidently got pushed to the back of the shelf & dropped behind the wall someplace. Ooops. Once I found a 1961 double die half dollar that I forgot I had purchased. The plan was to get it slabbed & it just got forgotten for years. I found it & sold it for a big chunk of cash which promptly was spent on an ancient coin:happy: & a vacation trip. Thus far, I've only [U]temporarily[/U] misplaced ancient coins. Nothing has yet been lost like the mint state Walking Liberty.[/QUOTE]
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