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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Haha...got a perfect story for this one....even wrote about this story in a 7th grade english class once too.
Back around 2004, I used to go through my coin collection on my old couch. I was 5 years old, don't ask, I really don't know why I did.
Used to spread coins out and look at them.....like once a month... I really don't know why I did this.
Regardless, my grandmother gave me a coin she'd had since she was a kid...an old franc coin with a "hole in it" from the 1920's. That was amongst the coins I used to go through.
Well, one day, I lost it. Never was to be found again. My parents and I used to joke about things when things went missing such as socks, other things we couldn't find, etc. that it went "where the coin with the hole in it" went.
Comes August 2011, we get a new couch. My dad takes the old one, brings the chainsaw inside, and chops it up so we can move it out the back door since it wouldn't fit.
In the process of doing so, we found a few pennies that got stuck, but the best...was...the coin with the hole in it. The one that had been missing for a good 7-8 years. It was jammed up on a side piece of the couch.
That's the story :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As far as I know, I have only ever lost one coin but that one hurt. I purchased my first Franklin half dollar in Hannibal, MO as a kid in the early 1980s. I was there to tour the Mark Twain home and museum and saw a coin shop downtown so I just had to go inside. I picked out an AU Franklin for $5 and away I went with my nice hunk of silver. Fast forward 25 years, I decided to start carrying it as a pocket piece because it had received a scuff mark at some point during my not-so-careful childhood. I managed to carry it around for about two years, wearing away the scuff mark, when it fell out of my pocket one day and was never seen again  Edited by biokemist6
02/09/2017 11:43 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My son once got into my coin chest when he was around 6-7 or so. I found everything laying on his bed except my 1890 PR Indian cent. I looked EVERYWHERE for it and couldn't find it. Several years later we were going through the closet in our room and it was in the very back. Not sure how it found its way there, just glad it finally turned up.  |
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I know you are happy to have found them. Good work!  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 I am so happy you found them! I'd was going to ask where they were but clearly it's a good hiding place so best keep that a secret. |
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Unfortunately mine has a sad ending. When I was younger, I found a 1937D 3-legged Buff in fairly nice shape in change from a five and dime, grade was EF+ range if I recall. No hole for it in nickel folder so for safe keeping this 11 year old idiot put it my piggybank. About two months later I went looking for it to show a friend...gone, nowhere among the change. Come to find out my mother raided my bank for parking meter change!  |
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I have an 1858 Canadian graded Large Cent VF30 - somewhere. It is probably worth $150. I put it somewhere safe in the house so it was not in easy access for someone to stumble on. I moved it around a few times and it is now in the safe place I put it over a year ago! I have stopped looking for it but I will find it one day when I am sorting through old tax returns or something. I did have a great Fathers 'Day this last week - at least as far as coin collecting goes. I decided to wear a tie my granddaughter had made me three years ago when she was three. As I was fishing to the bottom of my tie box in my dresser I found the 1858 VF large cent. I will never say anything negative about ties and Fathers' Day again. I still do not remember putting it there - all I recall is hiding it somewhere safe! Edited by punman
06/21/2017 6:50 pm
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Slovenia
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As Euro CC's came out I put aside several of them, including 3-4 Atomium 2€ and 2-3 Slovenia TOR 2007. Years later I became more interested in coins, I looked everywhere for those coins. Never found them.  |
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That is excellent news, punman! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Way to go punman!! This is starting to turn into a "happy thread" of coins found! LOVE IT!!!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I love it when we get good news! |
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When it comes to coins, guns, stamps or father valuable collectables...you ain't GOTno friends...! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just found this bad boy -- not exactly sure how (but I thank God for it!). I thought I had inadvertently sold this to a coin dealer who died 2 years ago, so that indicates how long it has been missing. You can find it in your RedBook under French Colonies: XV Deniers, 1712, Mint Mark AA.   |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I had a high grade denarius of the Roman emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD) go missing for several years. Then one day I found it in in a tiny ziploc coin bag in a bigger bag filled with empty coin holders.
Hadrian's return brought great relief!
Paul Bulgerin
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