What Is The Most Ridiculous Way You Lost Your Valuable Coin?

My daughter asked me for some popcorn money for school. I told her that there was some change in my bowl on the dresser. She saw that there was some of my Standing Liberty quarters more readily available on my computer desk awaiting to be added to my inventory. So she took those instead, I don't remember what the dates or mint marks were (they were older ones that I had forgotten about), but nothing MAJOR thank goodness.

My computer area is now off limits to my children with their "sticky fingers".

When I was a kid (elementary school, in the 70's), I was snooping around my parents ceramic plant holders which were on the top display shelf (for a good reason) in the kitchen. I found a 6 x 6 planter that was full of half dollars. I skimmed some (okay alot!) over a period of time for my popcorn (10 cents per bag) money. And my dad found out that alot of them were missing, and he warmed my britches up pretty good. I don't remember anything other than Kennedy's, but they may have been 90%ers or 40%ers.

Several years back while I was at the Chicago International Show I bought an English silver penny of William the Conqueror (circa 1066) and when I left for home accidentally left it behind in the hotel room. As soon as I noticed I called the hotel but it never showed up. Just had to buy another one.

So I'm not the only one who has had a coin collecting cat! Mine didn't like Lincolns though. He liked large cents, Half Cents and colonials.

"i lost a 1933 double eagle never did find it"

LOL. Such a nice stories everybody

After roll hunting halves for a while, I took a few of the kennedys to Hardies and bought some food...came to 9 bucks and change. got back to the house and realized I took the coins from the silver pile!. Went back to get them but was told a customer took all of them "'cause they were cool". I still can't believe I didn't recognize the silver from the sound. AArgh!.

This isn't coin related, but my dad collected stamps when he was young. He moved out of the house and left them at his Dad's house along with some other things. One day when he was at home a few years later he asked his Dad "Where's all my childhood stuff including my stamps?" My grandfather responds: "All that old junk of yours? I had a bonfire and burned it all". My dad was livid!

When I was 7 back in 1957 there used to be a carnival about a block away from my house came around almost every month in the summer, if you are old enough you will remember them, it is the ones where you would pitch penny's to get some glass, "think that might be where the phrase carnival glass came from" they also had this wheel with numbers on it they would spin and you could put a nickle on a number if that number came up you won a silver dollar.

I watched for a little while and saw how it was working, I had a nickle left from the about 25 cents I had to spend, so I was standing there watching with all these tall men standing there putting their nickels down, I wanted to try it but a nickle was a lot back then, and it was my last money I had, so the one time when the wheel stopped I looked and it was the number I was standing right in front of, so I quick laid my nickle down, when the man came to me he asked did you have that nickle there before I spun the wheel, before I could say anything all these big guys standing there said give the kid his dollar, I guess he did not want to argue with them so he gave it to me. Don't remember what the date was, but it was a Morgan.

I took off and ran home I played with that silver dollar the rest of the day {Had never seen one before}, the next day I took it to school with me to show all my friends, I was sitting on the cement step in front of the school looking at it, and it slipped out of my hand and rolled into a small horizontal opening in the cement step "just big enough for it to fit", I tried for years to get it out but just pushed it down further, the school is still there and whenever I get back I always go by it, hoping it may be closed so I could go pry up the brick and retrieve the silver dollar. Would probably have to give it to a charity now to clear my conscious.

Lesson learned if you cheat to get something chances are you will loose it plus more ;-)

That is one sad story...