Where Did That Coin Come From?

Dude. If you dropped money for a gold coin and don't remember it, you got it bad. And you have more money than I do to play with!!

This, all the way.


...In my own collection, I have found (at least) two individual coins where I really had no idea how they suddenly appeared in my house - a bicentennial half dollar way back in 2011 (or maybe even 2010, I'm not very sure), and a Bulgarian 2 stotinki 1881 that I found a few months ago while clearing up some old boxes.

I know that I must have bought the Bulgarian coin during my visit to Bulgaria in 2014, but I do not recall ever seeing it before at all, and I definitely did not recognize the design when looking it up as the Bulgarian KM#1 earlier this year.

Of course, having back then only been seriously collecting for a few months at most, and expecting that I'd at least remember if I ever bought something that interesting, I was much more confused (up to suspecting it was left as a gift) about the half dollar.

I apparently once went CRH through a box or two of nickels, and put all of the keepers in a few rolls to go through.

Found them in some clutter on my desk a few months later. It was like Christmas.

that's another one I wish I can also have that kind of luck

At my age, I only remember the stuff I bought last week.

Yes I have a MS brown 1848 large cent that I have no idea where it came from.

Funny - I said there were two coins in my collection that I randomly found like that, but there are three now: a few minutes ago, I found a bag with a damaged (bent all over) East Prussian 2 groschen 1773 randomly under my desk (it being Koenigsberg mint, I can again make a very probable guess of where I got it, but I still don't recall ever buying the actual coin, so I don't even know whether it was damaged while under the desk or whether I actually bought it that way).