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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4357310, member: 19463&quot;]My &quot;one that got away&quot; story may not count because it uses a different meaning of &quot;getting away&quot; but here it is.&nbsp; My &quot;one&quot; was an as of Julia Domna with the Hilaritas reverse and a decent example of the later period portrait while Septimius was still alive.&nbsp; I bought the coin from Bill Porter (a long time friend) in 1992 and was reclining in an old chair given to us by my mother when she was downsizing prior to a move.&nbsp; I dropped the coin and it fell to my side and into the bowls of the&nbsp; recliner.&nbsp; I got up expecting to find it in the seat area.&nbsp; No.&nbsp; I stuck my hand down as far as it would go into the recliner mechanism.&nbsp; No luck.&nbsp; I turned the chair over and beat on it trying to knock the coin loose.&nbsp; No good, either.&nbsp; I could not destroy my mother&#039;s chair.&nbsp; After a great deal of consternation I gave up and resigned myself to having been stupid enough to lose a coin while sitting with my feet up.&nbsp; This coin got away.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1102016[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>About a year later, I was at a show and found another coin of the type so I bought it to replace the one eaten by the chair.&nbsp; It was not quite as nice but it had the great advantage of being in hand rather than in the chair.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1102017[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>About five years passed and we were getting new carpet so I had to move the furniture out of the room.&nbsp; Did I mention the chair was heavy?&nbsp; It was too large to fit easily down a narrow stairs between living and family rooms so I had to twist it around and shove past a banister.&nbsp; I heard a clunk and there on the stairs was the errant as no worse for its less than ideal storage.&nbsp; I still can not figure out how I was unable to find it when it was lost but it just decided to come out when the chair was held at a certain angle.</p><p><br /></p><p>That meant I had two rather similar coins.&nbsp; I was not of a practice of selling coins from my collection but when John Anthony started selling on Coin Talk, I consigned the spare to his sale.&nbsp; One of you owns it now.&nbsp; I no longer look at coins in recliners - that is a lie - I TRY to be careful when being stupid enough to look at coins while reclining.&nbsp; The prodigal as returned and all is right with the world. Well, maybe not all but the &quot;one that got away&quot; came home again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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