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 Australia
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Being mainly a world and ancients collector, I don't normally buy the latest fads 'n' fashions from the RAM and/or Perth Mint. But there's a story of why I've got a 2003 Coronation PNC in my collection, and why I'm only just now entering it into my coin database. I regularly visit family in Mackay, on Queensland's central coast. The only coin dealer for hundreds of kilometres around is based in that town, and I try to support him whenever I visit, even though he doesn't usually have much in the way of world-and-ancients. In 2003, I called into the shop with my mum. My birthday was coming up, so Mum decides she wants to buy me something numismatic there for my birthday. The dealer suggests a 2003 Coronation PNC, so she buys it. Mum takes it with her and puts it in a safe place... A really safe place. A few days later, I'm getting ready to head back home to Brisbane - a comfortable two days drive away. Mum goes to give me my present... but she can't find it. She looks in all he logical places, and most of the illogical ones. We even call back at the dealer's shop... no, we didn't leave it behind. And no, he can't sell her another one - it was the last one in stock. Anyway, I head back home, while mum stays behind with the rellies for an extended stay with them. When I get home, I unpack everything carefully, in case it was hidden in the stuff I brought home. Nope - no coin. Every time Mum's on the phone, she says "I still haven't found that coin yet". After a while, she gives up - it's just vanished. In time, it becomes kind of a family in-joke: "I can't find my socks" - "Oh, they must be with the coin". Mum becomes reluctant to buy me any more coins for presents "in case she loses those, too". Fast forward to last Sunday - 30th September 2007. I'm here in Brisbane with my parents, and we're going to somebody's house. Mum is rummaging around in the car's glovebox, looking for the address we're supposed to go to. Instead, she finds a faded paper bag, with something heavy inside. It's a coin, one of those PNC things like I don't really collect. At first, I'm not sure where it came from - I might have gotten that thing anywhere, and by this time I'd forgotten exactly what kind of coin it was that was lost five years ago. But Mum's certain - this is The One. By my reckoning, it's travelled some 100,000 km sitting there in the glovebox all this time - the equivalent of 2½ times around the world. It must be one of the most well-travelled coins of it's kind. If only the envelope had been postmarked in the various places it's been... So, here it is. Coin #7518 in the Sap Collection: a 2003 Coronation 50¢, in PNC of issue.   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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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is a wonderful story! I love it.  And, even if you don't collect PNCs, that's definitely one of the ones I'd love to have. If it's alright to share another story- a few years ago I went to the coin store, and dug out a selection of interesting coins from the bulk bin. Got home, got everything inside. End of story, right? Well, I always get so many coins, I never remember what I'm supposed to have, or not have. A couple of weeks later, I see something laying in the drive beside the car. I pick it up, thinking it's a normal Lincoln Penny or something, but no! It's a Netherlands 1/2 cent coin. The only way it could have gotten there was my dropping it. I'm lucky in that it didn't even seem to have taken any damage from it's erstwhile detour. |
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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Great story Sap, a good one to keep just for the associated provenance. Yarn 1. Reminds me a little of a lady on the Antiques Road Show who had a tiny silver pig brooch & it had been to Mt Everest twice, once with Hillary & many years later with another team that did some sort of anniversary climb. It took the 2nd team something like 2-3 years to return it to her & she thought she'd never see it again. The pin was a bit rusty, but what a wonderful talking piece. Yarn 2. In 1997, I decided to keep 2 x $100 paper notes which I thought were in pretty good condition, duly 'stashed' them in a 'safe' place. About 18 months later, moving house, went looking for them, couldn't find them at all! Decided I must have accidentally thrown them out. How sad! Too Bad! Wrote it off!  About 2 yrs ago, I was hard up for reading material decided to re-read one of my favourite books, and voila  , inside the cover was my long lost $200. I almost felt like I'd won lotto or something.  It turns out their condition is not much chop at all, but I'm keeping them for an emergency. Edited by Nevol
10/03/2007 7:23 pm
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New Member
Australia
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Wonderful stories with happy endings. It gives me hope! in January of this year I acquired a 1934/35 melbourne Centenary Florin in AUnc condition. We moved house in March. Sometime in June of this year, I discovered I no longer had it. About a month later I discovered I no longer had any passports.
I assumed that I had thrown everything out together. I acquired my new passports and the day they came, I found my old ones. I still haven't come across the coin however.
But now I still have hope!
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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NEAesculus, Misplacing a '1934/35 Melbourne Centenary Florin in AUnc condition' would be a worry.
I hope you find your florin, but the thing is, now that you've moved, your 'coin places' are different to where they were prior to the move, but don't give up hope, it may turn up when you least expect it to.
What happened with your passports is a relatively common occurrence with me. Lose/misplace/stash something, go out & replace it, go to put the new one away, & find the first one.
I have an old 'gilt' gold coin/medal, looks a bit like a sovereign, 18xx something, that was missing for years. I found it on a ledge above a doorway, have no idea how it got there, certain I didn't put it there, must have been Hubby, the kids were not tall enough at the time. Hubby used to get it out as a talking point & as it was originally his Fathers', that's understandable.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
652 Posts |
I have a large collection of world bank notes that I had been collecting since I was a kid. I had dutifully sprayed them with water and ironed them to remove the creases (aren't kids wonderful). Anyway, whilst they aren't worth much, if anything, they were mine and had sentimental value. For some reason I took them to work and left them in my top drawer. Some many, many, many months later, I remembered they were there and went to retrieve them (I had moved offices). They were gone. I thought badly of a number of people but fortunately never said anything. They turned up in the box at the bottom of my wardrobe about 9 years later. I had obviously taken them home at some point oif time and my wife had packed them away. Anyone want to buy a crisp, faded world banknote?  |
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