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Pillar of the Community
United States
624 Posts |
I actually lost a room in my house. When my oldest Son moved out, my wife filled the room with exercise equipment that is never used.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1374 Posts |
LOL!   Sounds like collateral for some decent coins! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2540 Posts |
Funny, but, YES
And some of them have never appeared again
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I had just dug a Konvertible Markka out of a junk bin, which has the distinction of being the ONLY "Mark" currency still in use today! It started its life pegged to the Deutschmark, but when that changed over to the Euro, it is now pegged to the Euro - but it is only worth a fraction of a Euro because the old D-marks are only worth a fraction of a Euro! So it's also the rare currency that, while pegged to another, doesn't have some kind of easy 1:1, 1:2 etc. equivalence.
While I was explaining these fascinating facts in my dad's old Mercedes, he hit a bump, and it fell out of my hand into the crack between the seat and seat-back... slid through... and I heard a faint "plink!" on the pavement!!
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Valued Member
United States
196 Posts |
OK, be honest now. Tell us about the places you looked for them that there is no possible way they would be there but you had to check anyways. Like losing your keys and checking in the silverware drawer for them, or lifting the microwave and checking underneath. Every time I open one of my double sided red boxes for 2x2's, I find coins in there that shouldn't be there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1448 Posts |
I had a coin that fell through the floorboards in my house (really weird incident). Well, in the future when/if the house is knocked down they'll find a nice silver washington in the rubble
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1053 Posts |
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After a few months finding them in the kitchen cupboard is a nice surprise. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5825 Posts |
I've had a full set of Liberty V nickels in a Capital Plastics holder go missing. Now THAT'S something that's hard to lose. It may have disappeared when we move here in 1985 but I looked at it so infrequently that I really can't pin down any time period. But I know it happened before 2000 (I think). The set would have mostly graded Good with the early keys at best AG. And as I recall the 1912-S may have been Fine. Even in those low grades those 3 coins would have been worth in the $500-1000 range. Well, we're working on moving again. When that happens maybe the coins will turn up. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
Kanga did you happen to get a pic of that V set before it went missing ? I would love to see the holder.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1304 Posts |
Each week I get a set amount of money to live on until the next paycheck. I always take some of it and stash it for coin buying. I had around $500.00 stashed. Took $200.00 with me on a trip to St. Louis and spent $50.00 of it. For some reason that morning I put the stash in a different place than normal before we left and when we got back I thought this is a great hiding place and returned the $150.00. Still haven't found it to this day, 6 months later. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:that included about 300 Buffalo nickels. Sometime between then and now I've misplaced them. 150 coins isn't a large quanitity, but somewhere in my safe are hiding the culprits I'm confused. You said you had 300 of them and then can't find the 150? Did you mean you had 150 or lost half of the 300? Usually such situations are from a kid needing money for candy or stuff. Many collections wind up in circulation due to that. So far never lost a coin at home yet. I think, maybe. |
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