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United States
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found a couple of coins that you don't remember having in your coin collection?  Happened to me this weekend. I can't for the life of me remember how I got 2 Barber halves in my collection. Just curious if this happens to anyone else. By the way I'm only 37 (hopefully I'm not losing my mind already) and have only been collecting coin seriously for about 4 years now.  Edited by Mr Click
07/07/2014 09:49 am
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United States
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Its happened to me several times. I was close to purchasing a 1996-W dime, then I found two 1996 mint sets - with those dimes - that I didn't know I had.
What I've done is to purchase a coin and when I go to put it in my folder, I've already got it. Oh well. Another one for my coin collecting kids.
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07/07/2014 09:33 am
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Canada
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Often. I recently found a BU roll of cents I had completely forgotten about.
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United States
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Mr. Click================== Quote:found a couple of coins that you don't remember having in your coin collection? Happened to me this weekend. I can't for the life of me remember how I got 2 Barber halves in my collection. Just curious if this happens to anyone else. By the way I'm only 37 (hopefully I'm not losing my mind already) and have only been collecting coin seriously for about 4 years now. With out a lot of fan fare, Yes. I'm older, and sure my mind is gone for lunch a lot.  |
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United States
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Yeah, more than I care to mention.  |
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United States
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Unfortunately I have an almost perfect memory... and no you don't wish you had it... I have a hard time forgetting how many coins I have or where I got them or where they are in the boxes and bins. It is also impossible to forget all the times I let my mom down, the missed opportunities that might have made things so much better. Not to mention the cats and dogs I have lost in my 40 years... Clarence Peep Tip Harley Skunk George - R.I.P. (Human passing keeps getting closer too My cousin just went last month... she was 8 months older than me  ) Current cats on deck... Mao-Mao Aslan If you could remember all the times you had said "I wish I could remember ' THAT'..." you'd have to triple it to come up with the number of times I have said I wish I could forget... Sorry to bring the mood down but the next time you loose your keys or find an ounce of silver and not remember where it came from, be happy, it's better then the alternative. You can't JUST remember the good stuff. Then do like Bill Cosby said and smack yourself on the bottom... after all the only way to remember what you struggled out of the chair in the first place for, is to sit back down  Nit-Pik side note: Everyone's Memory is PERFECT every picture, every song, every blade of grass you have ever stepped on is in there somewhere... 'Recall' is the nit-piking correct word. Sit in a darkened room with a single light on those 2 barbers and think of everyone you have ever bought silver off of. Every coin show, every dealer. Self-hypnosis is possible and it can help recall. |
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United States
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The older you get, the more coins you'll find that you didn't know you had! Comes with age! Ask me how I know?
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07/07/2014 2:15 pm
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United States
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ASLAN================= Quote:
Unfortunately I have an almost perfect memory... and no you don't wish you had it... It passes with enough time. Maybe. At least it did for me. I say the same thing to others === You are blessed to be normal. |
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United States
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I've done it with firearms.
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Canada
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I like Aslan's reply (and Chute's)!
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I occasionally find coins in my collection that I've forgotten I had. I normally have a routine of writing them down on a manual list and entering the details on an Excel worksheet. The ones that I forget to write down tend to be recent pocket change finds where it is often a temptation to put them straight into my collection.
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United States
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I usually have a steel trap memory but on Thursday I was surprised to find $52+ in coin that needed to be dumped at the bank in a ziplock bag in my center console... I guess it's more of picking up a couple of rolls here and there that added up then forgetting I bought some silver.. I'd never forget silver, maybe clad (no luck finding those Ike's)... Maybe the banks forgot how to order them
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I've never forgot a coin in my collection. I know what I have and my memory refuses to forget it |
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United States
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Unfortunately I have an almost perfect memory...and no you don't wish you had it... I can really relate here. The difficulty of forgetting traumatic memories has wreaked havoc on my mental health in the past years. People sometimes wish they had my memory, but they would think twice if they factored in everything else I deal with. I guess it helps with studying and is a pretty darn good party trick, but it leaves a lot of weight to carry in your psyche. ASLAN TVorlon, just remember that there are people going through the same situation and they care. I'm sorry for the loss of your cousin and animal friends. Here, have an internet hug!  |
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Have you ever gone through your coin collection and...found a couple of coins that you don't remember having in your coin collection? I'm usually pretty good at remembering where and when I acquired certain specific coins, and having a database with that information saved helps. But with over 11,000 coins in my collection now, mistakes happen. This most often happens to me after I've bought a new coin, brought it home... and found out I already had one. I've also found the opposite occurrence to be all too common - thinking I already owned a certain type of coin, only to go and look for it and find that no, I don't own one after all. I guess that's one of the perils of looking at coins on the Internet all the time - they start to become "yours" in your mind, even though they're not. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Only a couple? I sometimes find entire Albums I forgot about. I sometimes open a box of coins I just put aside thinking someday I'll do something with. I find coins I never new I had. With virtually many thousands of coins, I really have little idea what I have and don't have. I do know I have well over 3,000 Mercury dimes but as to finding one or more laying around I didn't know about, that's easy. I actually have a fantastic bad memory. I find myself going out to the garage and can't remember why. I always like going out to my garage and finding the car doors loked. What's wrong with that? It's a convetible with the top down. So who locked those doors anyway? I'll be sitting here on the computer and jump up, go downstairs and stand there wondering why. I go to stores all the time and forget the list of things I went there for. Then I can't find the list either. I make dimilar lists for things I want, need or would just like when I go to coin shows and almost always forget the list. So I buy things I like, usually don't need though. Not long ago I found a note in one of my Jefferson nickel Albums saying remember coins in set #4 are better than those in set #3. Who would put that note there and why? Amd your worried about a few coins?  |
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