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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3610800, member: 56859"]Pish has the solution: put a piece of women's hosiery over the end of the vacuum to keep the (coin, earring, or other tiny object) from being sucked up <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry about your coin but it was an entertaining story!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a similar story, told many times on CT, and here is is again <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon arrival of my smallest coin I promptly showed it off to someone in my office. As I was thinking how bad it would be if I dropped it, I dropped it. Five millimeter coin, Berber carpeting... bad. I locked the door and kept everyone out for the twenty or so minutes it took to find the thing. When found, I took a picture because otherwise no one would have believed how well it blended in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_1224ab3120ba448fadc224f033302aa3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>MACEDONIA, uncertain</b></p><p>c. 500 BCE</p><p>AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 5 mm, 0.26 gm</p><p>Obv: monkey squatting left</p><p>Rev: round shield or pellet within incuse square</p><p>Ref: "Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II", Nomismatika Khronika (1998, Tzamalis), 67</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a picture of the coin pretending to be a loop of carpet. See if you can spot it:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_3527c6e30bf9423d94c2f0c46388de4b.jpg_srb_p_600_375_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb&hash=0abcaa6f54f6070b9585bebe95596834" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]966927[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3610800, member: 56859"]Pish has the solution: put a piece of women's hosiery over the end of the vacuum to keep the (coin, earring, or other tiny object) from being sucked up :). Sorry about your coin but it was an entertaining story! I have a similar story, told many times on CT, and here is is again :D. Upon arrival of my smallest coin I promptly showed it off to someone in my office. As I was thinking how bad it would be if I dropped it, I dropped it. Five millimeter coin, Berber carpeting... bad. I locked the door and kept everyone out for the twenty or so minutes it took to find the thing. When found, I took a picture because otherwise no one would have believed how well it blended in. Here's the coin: [IMG]https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_1224ab3120ba448fadc224f033302aa3.jpg[/IMG] [B]MACEDONIA, uncertain[/B] c. 500 BCE AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 5 mm, 0.26 gm Obv: monkey squatting left Rev: round shield or pellet within incuse square Ref: "Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II", Nomismatika Khronika (1998, Tzamalis), 67 Here's a picture of the coin pretending to be a loop of carpet. See if you can spot it: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_3527c6e30bf9423d94c2f0c46388de4b.jpg_srb_p_600_375_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb&hash=0abcaa6f54f6070b9585bebe95596834[/IMG] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ATTACH=full]966927[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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