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Numismatic and History Discussion Forums => Ancient Coin Forum => Topic started by: Aleph on March 21, 2009, 07:58:33 pm
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Has this happend to anyone else? I have long been afraid that I would eventually lose one or more of my coins just as a matter of course. After two long distance moves in the last three years it has happend. I simply cannot find one of my better coins. I don't know if one of my cats batted it around or if it just fell out of a binder during moving but it is simply no longer among my collection. I now keep my coins in boxes in the bank now but I used to keep them in binders. I still hope I might see it again. Its definitely an uncommon variety and a beautiful example at that, but it is a variety I might see again in the trade. At least it was from a Mail bid sale so I have a good picture.
Kevin
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Next time you move, try wrapping cling film around your binders!
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As stated above, I don't use binders anymore (because coins can slide out). I was more curious if anyone had had a similar experience.
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I had a small silver coin (ca. 8mm) go missing somewhere between work and home.
It did come in one of those small open plastic baggies, I hate those. I crawled around my office floor, spent a good 10 minutes searching my backpack and even asked someone in case it had somehow made its way into the envelope I mailed that day, which, while not impossible, was extremely unlikely.
I know I'll never find this coin, the ones I lose on or around my desk at home I always find again, I don't even worry.
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I was working on an uncleaned bronze with a nylon brush on a dremel and it slipped out of my hand and sailed off at a fairly high velocity. Didn't hear it hit, which was strange because we have hardwood floors. Searched for several minutes and gave up. Later that day, I put on my running shoes, which were sitting near our front door, to go for a run. Thought I felt something in my shoe during the run. Stopped and looked. Sure enough. There's the coin.
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https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=46469.0 (https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=46469.0)
:'( If I hadnt lost them I would have done well in the competition! They were damn good coins.
Oh well, just have to order another batch and try again!
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I was vaccuming out my car about 3 years ago when I heard a rattle of something hard going up the plastic nozzel. I thought it might have been a 20p (I need them!) so I opened it up to look - and this is what it was ...
I had completely forgotton I had it. I think I was showing a few coins to a friend once and it must have escaped - about 2 years previously!. OK, not the most exciting coin in the world -- but much better in my trays than traveling around the countryside 8)
Malcolm
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I was vaccuming out my car about 3 years ago when I heard a rattle of something hard going up the plastic nozzel. I thought it might have been a 20p (I need them!) so I opened it up to look - and this is what it was ...
I had completely forgotton I had it. I think I was showing a few coins to a friend once and it must have escaped - about 2 years previously!. OK, not the most exciting coin in the world -- but much better in my trays than traveling around the countryside 8)
Malcolm
You should clean your car more often ;D
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I unknowingly dropped my best Marc Antony leigonary den outside a coinshop...enough said.
Chris
PS I still scan the gound every time I go there...sure it's been 3 years, but you never know! ;D
C.
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Have you looked INSIDE the shop?
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I once lost an EF Postumus. Aarrgh!
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Have you looked INSIDE the shop?
Heh...the only way I could get it out of the shop (if it were there) would be to buy it...and he is too expensive...(but yeah, for the first year I looked almost every time ::) )
Chris
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Lost this fella once for about 6 months. I had long sadly written him off when one day when I was vigorously vaccuming out my truck and Viola!, there he was between the seats.
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Thanks, everyone- this makes me feel (slightly) better! Thought it might be just me but I guess these things do get away from us now and then. I hope to one day see my semis again- hopefully not on ebay... Maybe I should look in my car. :)
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I once bought a French denier of Louis XV from a dealer's tray. It was not in a flip or 2x2 holder and instead of getting one from the dealer (which would just be wasted because I have my own cataloging method) I just put the coin in my pocket and drove home but when I got there it was not in my pocket anymore. I looked everywhere, retracing my steps through the house and back out to my car. I found nothing. I went through the car ever so carefully, looking in the seat, under the seat, on the floor behind the seat, etc., etc. Still, nothing. I drove back to the coin shop where I'd bought it and scoured the street where I'd parked. Nothing. I retraced my steps into the shop. Nothing.
So I gave up. Not an expensive coin but one I wanted. I was quite unhappy for a while but eventually I thought of it no more.
Then, about two years later, while travelling, I had left my car with the hotel valet. When he brought my car around and I gave him a tip, the valet handed me something in return: my lost denier! He had found it on the floor of the car. I can only imagine that it had somehow gotten into the seat as I drove home the day I'd bought it and it took that long for it to work its way out.
Since then, I have let dealers I've bought from put any loose coins in flips for me!
Fortunately, I've never had this happen with any of my ancient coins or, indeed, with any other coins. I have dropped a few LRBs in my office over time, though. They vanish into the pattern of the Persian rug on the floor and I have to get down on my hands and knees and feel my way around for them. Hardly worth the effort for some of those tiny little Arcadiuses and AE 4/5s of the Constantine boys, but I do it anyway!
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Dropped a Constantine AE3 pocket peice one dark morning when meeting the carpool. Backed up my car so that I could illuminate the area with the headlights and proceeded to run over the curb and do about $200 of damage to the vehicle. Looked for the AE3 anyway but never did find it...
Eugene
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Dropped once an AE15 to the ground when looking at it with a magnifier. I searched for it more than an hour and gave up frustrated. A week later when my my wife was hoovering the room - clic-clac - the coin appeared!
Best regards
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Dropped once an AE15 to the ground when looking at it with a magnifier. I searched for it more than an hour and gave up frustrated. A week later when my my wife was hoovering the room - clic-clac - the coin appeared!
Best regards
I have had that same problem! We also have a several greenish persian carpets around the house, and I have dropped several Ae's on them. No chance you'll spot it unless you have bionic vision! Good tools those vaacum cleaners!
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Lost three coins at once from my pocket in a hotel. A (good) silver Gallienus, Valens XF follis and Heraclius small bronze. Never recovered them. Another two coins (small celtic and a tibetan silver) were never shipped (but paid).
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I know that it’s not a very popular option for most collectors but I store all my Roman denarii in oversized 32mm plastic coin capsules and secure them in place with ring gaskets. The gaskets are made out of EVA (ethyl vinyl acetate), a stretchable material used as cushioning in shoes, consisting of a rubbery copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate. EVA is considered a safer alternative to PVC that leaches over time, contaminating coins.
I collect all sorts of bullion, numismatic and ancient coins which I store in coin capsules. I chose to place my diminutive Roman denarii in oversized capsules because they were proving far too problematic to handle. They kept slipping from my fingers and rolling under my bed. It doesn’t help that they’re minted out of a non-magnetic metal which means you can’t simply search for them by lightly brushing a magnet over your carpet as you would do with lost car keys.
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I was working to attribute a coin and it disappeared. I found it five years later between the pages of a book I was using to attribute it.
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I lose coins frequently because my desk is an absolute mess. I have never lost one permanently, I always find them on the floor or in a book (the book thing is pretty common for me, as I am usually using more than one book) or just under something. It is frustrating, they are so small and so easy to misplace. There have been a couple times I was in an absolute panic over it because the coin was expensive (to me) or one that was extra important in some other way. The longest it has been is a couple of days, so I am lucky in that regard. I have dropped them on my deck more than once and been panicked that they would fall between the slats, luckily I haven't had to tear up my deck so far and I know I shouldn't be opening Forum (and other) packages while sitting outside on my deck, but I do. Or handing one to my wife to look at while on the deck.
Virgil
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Well, I've lost two. Both later recovered. My dog ate one, which I retrieved after following her around and waiting the next day. Second fell into my recliner and was missing for months. Finally when my wife wasn't home I stripped the thing down as much as I could, turned it upside down and dropped it. Coin dropped out from wherever it was. I've also spent a fair amount of time on my hands and knees hunting under tables, radiators, desks etc. Usually find those fairly quickly.
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The dog story is hilarious. So is the recliner one.
Virgil
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Honestly, that's one reason I gave up on Greek coins. I sometimes can't see the smallest ones even when I'm sure I'm holding them. Someday, my house will be known as the Cline hoard for all the lost Greek coins.