I have a graded coin for which I had paid $140 and at the time I bought it, it was one of my most expensive coins. A year ago I put it in a safe place in the house as I was going out for a couple of days. It is still in that safe place. I think I know which room that is but have not looked through all the boxes and folders and such to find it.
The cat once (well, once...) got crazy and attacked one pile of coins on the table. I'm pretty sure I found all of them except one.
Talking about this: I'm usually good at the opposite. Every time I visit the US or another country where cash is still king, I tend to find at least one coin per day during my walks. Usually nothing special though, except the one time I found a pile of bank notes worth the equivalent of $200.
I misplaced a Alexander the Great silver .. for about a month. I looked hard several times .. then one day it was in a box .. that is should not have been in.
Another time lost a 1910 British Trade dollar for six months in my work shop. Ended up taking almost everything out of the shop to find it ... at least the shop got clean.
One of the coin shops I work lost a Massachusetts copper in AU. It was 2 or 3 years before it turned up.
There is an old Scientific theory about things like this. Sort of like where is that missing sock that should have been in the dryer? Actually many missing items have fallen into a space/time warp or dimensional hole. This means your coin(s) or other missing items have moved to another place in either time or a different dimension. When this happens normally it is just a replacement and you should or could actually find an item that doesn't belong here although you don't notice. Eventually, such happenings must balance out so the replacement switches back to normal as a balance to our Universe and you find your coin(s) and or other missing items. Or your just absent minded.
Currently, Poland 5 zloty 1928 is missing. It was cleaned and damaged, so technically nothing to whine about, but it still irks me.
I'm certain it hasn't been previously sold. Checked the junk pile twice, checked the for sale pile twice, checked the vacuum bag, all cupboards, all drawers, and it's not there.
This has actually become one of the reasons I decided to get rid of all excess junk, most of which is borderline collectible and thus has hardly any value. So far, a few of the items did sell (usually within the $0.50-$2 price range) but the search - and clean-up - continues.
Quote: There is an old Scientific theory about things like this. Sort of like where is that missing sock that should have been in the dryer? Actually many missing items have fallen into a space/time warp or dimensional hole. This means your coin(s) or other missing items have moved to another place in either time or a different dimension. When this happens normally it is just a replacement and you should or could actually find an item that doesn't belong here although you don't notice. Eventually, such happenings must balance out so the replacement switches back to normal as a balance to our Universe and you find your coin(s) and or other missing items. Or your just absent minded.
Lost a Franc coin, had a hole in it, star of david, forgot exactly what it was but it's from Morocco...from the 1920's that my grandmother gave to me somewhere around 2005. She'd had it since she was a kid in the late 30's so it meant a bit to her. I remember when I was really young I'd look at my coin collection on our old couch for some reason - don't ask me, I was bored as a kid, LOL.
Anyways, around 2011, it came time to pitch those couches. Couldn't get them out of the door or the rear screen door, so my dad took a grinder and cut the couches up. Tucked up a spot in the couch was the coin. We always joked and wondered where this coin was hiding in the 6 years it was missing.
Thankfully it's tucked away in a nice 2x2 somewhere.
When we were cleaning up some leftover boxes of stuff a week ago, we put aside a special place for any coins found, specifically so that they won't be sucked up by the vacuum.
The boxes having only been there for two years, it was mostly just a bunch of common modern Russian coinage, but there was also a Bulgarian 2 stotinki 1881 (damaged, and with green spots, but otherwise very nice) that I didn't even recall having ever bought originally.
Worst place was when my mom found one of my lost wire kopeks on our boot rug (and believe me, those things aren't called "fishscales" for nothing). There were three of them lost; the second was found on the same rug the next day, and the the third on a completely unrelated table a year and a half later.
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Quote: When this happens normally it is just a replacement and you should or could actually find an item that doesn't belong here although you don't notice.
This explains the 2 stotinki, and the random bicentennial half dollar I found five years earlier (which I also did not recall ever buying).
Some alternate dimensional counterpart to me must have just lost that 2 stotinki recently. Poor guy.
Guess what, I found them also a 1885 Indian head and a 1926s, some dummy had mixed them in with some European medallions in a cloth bag for safe keeping, I am so happy, thought I was loosing it, now what did I do with the cat?
This reminds me - sometimes I find "lost" coins that I can recall purchasing, but can't recall losing. I'm almost as much surprised by those as by finds I don't recall purchasing at all.
This happened recently (a few hours ago) with a Danzig 2 pfennig 1926, and a few years ago with an 1517 Salzburg zweier; can't remember any other cases that precisely.
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