1886-S $5 Gold Coin, Funny Story!

My dad was a major coin collector back in the 70's and 80's. In the late 80's my grandma gave him an unc 1886 -s gold $5. When he got it home he put it in a sock in (where else?) the sock drawer. Sometime later my mom was cleaning out said sock drawer and threw out....some socks.

And so the story goes (and was a favorite of my dad's for years), that my mom through out this beautiful coin, harping how valuable it would be now (more so each time it was told. My mom always replying how stupid it was to have put it there in the first place.

Well just recently my dad decided to sell most of his collection and collected a large chunk of it from the safety box. Going through them and trying to school me on ev ery sin gle detail, he paused..."oh my god, here it is!"

The idiot...ahem...dear man took it out the sock and stashed it safely, behind another coin in the page. He woke my mom up at 2 am to apologize.

It is so beautiful and he wants to sell it, but I'm sort of attached to it now after all the drama and the hilarious moment I shared with my dad.