The best coin I have lost permanently, from over 6 years ago was a 1670 Bristol Farthing, a 17th century token that was mailed to me by a friend in Scotland. The coin arrived in the mail the very day I got a call from my sister that my Mother was in the hospital and that I needed to travel to Washington DC immediately. In all the confusion and rush of the day, I think I may have accidentally put the coin back in the mailer it was in to put away, and then later in the day I mistakenly threw it away. It was one of the nicest Bristol farthings I had seen, I bought it from a friend for less than he paid for it. I hoped for a long time I would find it, but alas it probably is in some landfill somewhere

And then there was the United Colonies $4 bill from May 1776 that I bought when I was a kid, I liked looking at it, and I had a bad habit then of looking at things and leaving them lying around the house. Somehow eventually it disappeared, of course I blamed my brother but he continued to deny taking it.

About a year later I decided to remove the bottom of our sofa, to dig out the coins I could hear jingling around on the dust cloth underneath. I found several coins, even half dollars, but the best find was my 1776 $4 bill in its holder, no worse for having spent over a year in the sofa.

I've "lost" alot lately, including 4 16d's, but that pales in comparison to the one's that were gifts from people over the decades. I consider these pieces unique, as the people who gave them are no longer around.

Proof 1856 Flying Eagle Cent
Gorgeous BU 1916 St. Lib. Q.
1901-S Quarter
1799 Large Cent
2 1893-S Morgans
Complete small cent collection in very high grade
Complete standing liberty quarter collection in high grade
on & on & on...
ALL STOLEN BY MY EX-WIFE in 1991 -- ironically, it was just TWO DAYS AGO that she decided to "ease her conscience" by telling me which NYC dealer fenced it...

TOM

ANA-LM 5376

*ouch*

1926-s Oregon Trail Comemmorative half dollar ... PCGS MS-66 I still can't figure out where the heck that thing went.

A Silver Shipwreck Coin Dated 1700's

A Roman COin

those Are The Only One's i Lost So Far

I can't think of a coin I have permanently lost. But, there are many times when I have temporarily misplaced one. A frantic search entails after I realize it. But, fortunately, I have always found the wayward coin. It is usually in my desk or dresser drawer or some such place where I put it so I wouldn't forget where it was.

Am I unique in saying I've never lost one?

All my coins are kept in my cabinet, with the some other ones in an album (which I rarely get out). So it's just a case of counting them out of the cabinet and ensuring they all go back in. I couldn't imagine losing one, or even having them stolen.

No, I haven't lost one either.

I haven't lost any either. Although when selling some proof sets recently I was checking my inventory of Silver, proof and mint sets and I am mysteriously missing 3- 2003 Mint sets. In my records I wrote down 3, but have no record of ever receiving them.

Think it's a case of I'm gonna order 3 mints sets, and never did...

Never lost one either, touch wood.

I've had a few go missing in the mail, including a Carson City seated dime I mailed to numisnick at the same time I mailed kuhli some cool commie notes as a gift, neither ever arrived.

I narrowly missed losing a Peace dollar today. It was in a square tube in a box of them I had for sale at the flea market and a fellow who has been buying half dollars every weekend said, "Hey, how much for the tube with the silver dollar in it?"

I guess I had used that tube for Peace dollars and hadn't bothered to count when I dumped them out to sort and grade them.

Had 4 Morgans lifted from me by a cousin. I remember one was an 1896 but I don't recall the others. Been gone over 30 years now.

I would thank her for clearing her black heart conscience, and then clear my own by talking with an attorney to file a civil suit (after we check to see if the statue of limitations has run out for criminal charges) to recover the value of the collection. That should help her ease her conscience even more.
Holy crap.

I received as an unadvertised and greatly appreciated bonus from an ebay dealer years ago, some crisp uncirculated world banknotes. I'll be darned if I can find them.

good seller though, nice foreign mint and proof sets, and a bonus in every auction.

all i still have from my childhood days of collecting isn't everything i once had.. there are a few things that i know i had, but who knows where they went.. but the one that sticks out the most is an '86 proof staute of liberty commemorative half that i got from my uncle.. for the rest of my life i'll wonder what happened to that. it's not worth much, but wtf...

I'd be upset if I lost just ONE of those items. Ugh.

Mine was an 1851-O silver three cent piece many years ago (1960s).
I showed it to my grandfather, and somebody (me, maybe him or someone
else) set it down somewhere and nobody could remember where.

Looked all over but it was simply gone. The coin is of course very small
which probably factored into it missing so easily.

It was not in a holder of any kind, just "raw".

I am also missing several civil war era Missouri banknotes. I am positive they
are around my computer desk somewhere but the whole thing is such a mess
in there I don't know how or when I will make another attempt to find them.

Been missing about a year now.

no coin, but a note.

In the 1980's the Dutch 5 gulden note was demonitized and a 5 gulden coin was issued instead.




I took some crisp UNC notes that I got at the bank and put them in an envelope and placed that on a shelf in my room.

It sat there for several years, I can still point out the exact location.

Then I moved to a another house. Things went in boxes, boxes went in cars, boxes went out of cars to attick. Boxes were taken off the attick and emptied and the contents were placed in the appropriate places in th new house.

But I never found that envelop again

No doubt about it, my entire Saturday would be spent cleaning up around, near, under, between and any other area until those Missouri banknotes were found! I would even consider doing a lower GI scope on the cat if I thought it would help find them.
Yikes!

I have looked in all the obvious places and so now I'm going to have to
get more creative. I did find five unc. 1864 $2 Confederate notes I bought at
an auction years ago in a white envelope.

A similar thing happened to me less than two years ago when we moved to our current home. Just after 12 midnight when €uros became available here, my wife and I walked to an ATM. I withdrew a €20 note and saved the receipt that showed the time and date. I lost both in the move.

Other than that I cannot recall losing any other coin or note.

I found a gorgeous 1970-S cent in change once. I was a beginner then and was going to put it in my whitman folder but then noticed there are different size dates. I think I IDed it as the less common one (small date?) and was busy verifying it. Then it disappeared. I think my mom or someone spent it.

I can still see the orange of the coin today. That is one of the few dates/mints after the 1930s that I still am missing in my whitman folder....

thank god i can say i nvr lost any of my coins an nvr stolen also thank god ^_^ even though ppl always ask me wat i think my collection is worth id say if u sell each coin for 100 fils ($0.27)(junk bin cost here) ill still get bout 400-500 bd ($ 1063.83 - 1329.79) an no1 i know will steal em thank god since most ppl here dont actually know where an how 2 sell em xD lol an cant ever carry my collection out of my room so heavy an divided into parts no1 can find eheh ^_^

As a kid (about 12-14), I bought a 1909-VDB cent (probably VF+), put it in my pocket, went to an arcade and thought I could fool a nickel machine by putting in the cent that was in my pocket. I realized what I had done when I got home. Doh!

oh an locked in my cupboard near my bed an my window is blocked by my huge tv an everthin stand an cupboard so no 1 can climb in an if they do my dog hears everythin xD an if shes not there my parents work at night an come home around 1 am or 3 am an stay awake till 4 or somethin an 4.30 the sun comes out an plus theifs are afraid of my dad ...he looks like vin diesel but more muscles an bigger an did alot of martial arts ^_^ lol he actually chased 2 robbers before ..... they were tryin 2 steal our basket ball ring which is out side our house oh an a minister of somethin lives near us has a police man out side near his house its right near our house so he can see anythin .....i think my collection is pretty safe ....an 2 think i wanted a safe ?!?!?!

I know I have done something stupid like spend a coin I found in circulation, but I can't think of what they were.

Only thing recently is something sent to me in the mail never arrived. Oh well, stuff happens.

When it comes to losing stuff, I am so anal - for example I collected "Treasure Rocks" and logged every type and color of "rock" I "revealed". Haven't lost one. Now think about those hunks of plastic vs. my pretties...

A 1580 Austrian Thaler, I've mentioned this one before, stolen from me years ago. If I ever find out who took it, well....let's just say I better not find out.

Don't think I've ever lost anything significant. I've misplaced things for a few years but they have always showed up.

I didn't take out a loan once when an authenticated box of medals carried by Napoleon on the battlefield of Waterloo was offered to me for $2500 by Superior here in LA. Never did find out who got it but it had been looted from Nap's carriage after the battle and passed down through an English family. Sigh...

Wow, elverno. what a piece of history you missed out on!

I lost all the coins I collected in my early teens. I have no idea what happened to them at all. None of them were particularly valuable, but it was something I put a lot of time into in the early to mid-1970s. I guess the education I received while collecting back then is what has lasted.

I have only lost one so fay, and I've been at this hobby for about 5 months, luckily for me it was only a modern-day North Korea coin - 'a one won' I think so not much in value terms.



But look on the bright side - it will probably be found be some elated metal-detectorist in the distant future!

Or maybe that's not good..

xD id hate 2 be that person xD lol

I really hate to remember this but not lost, but I think I would have preferred loosing a coin compared to this. At a coin show I found a 1921S Lincoln Cent in the most perfect condition any coin was ever in. It was raw but well could have been a MS-66. Regardless I knew the dealer and he said for me I could have it for $100, not sure but I think that was the price. Naturally I purchased it. At home I wanted to take it out of the 2x2 which was stapled together and put it in an album. I had a bad habit of usuing a sharp screwdriver to lift the staples up. The screwdriver slipped. Ran accross the face of Lincoln leaving a scratch that may as well been a foot deep.

poor abe

scares of ...war!!! xD

My house was broken into the weekend between Christmas and New Years 1981. I lost some stuff I had sitting on my desk. Some Morgan Dollars, rolls of wheaties and My Moms Whittman penny collection plus some coins a friend had given me to look thru as possable trades. I got the rolled wheaties back when they were cashed in at a local convenient store. The clerk couldn't identify the kid but I know who it was but couldn't prove it. Last I heard he was in jail for auto theft.

I used to do the same thing, except with a small blade/knife. I've damaged two coins this way. I stopped doing that. Now, I say screw it, I'll never reuse the 2X2 so I'll just cut the plastic holding in the coin and the coin is easily removed unharmed.