best coin you ever lost...

[Mifarmer]

There is a family story that my great grandmother paid the paper boy w/ a roll of 55 doubled dies, but you know how stories go, probably bs. But truth is in 1988 my house got robbed, lost everything valuable, I was a senior in HS., anyways my entire coin and stamp collections are a memory, the 1808 half dollar that my favorite Uncle Bill gave me haunts me to this day. Now that I have gotten older, I find myself not dwelling on the value of coins, but the joy in being the "favorite Uncle" to the young ones in my extended family.

Uncle dave,
I really really like morgan silver dollars😇

 

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[eddiecurrent]

1970....I was taking a 1909s indianhead in extra fine condition downtown in west palm bch to be valued, it was wrapped in tissue in my pocket.when I arrived / at the store I opened the tissue and it was gone.
I think it fell out and I used it to pay the penny tax on a 10 cent Icee I bought at the 7/11.
I went back and asked the cl e rk to look in the tray for it but he s a id the change had been rolled and locked in the safe earlier. He said he didn't have the combo.
You live and lose sometimes.

 

[tamrock]

Back in the day when there was still plenty of pre-64's in circulation I'd lose the 50 cents mom would give me for my school lunch sometimes. I'm thinking some metal detecting fella maybe found those lost Washington's, Kennedy's & Franklin haves I couldn't seem to find at lunch time.

 

[CASPER-2]

FRIEND FOUND THIS AT A 1600S CELLAR HOLE IN MA. - WAS STOLEN BEFORE HE COULD GET IT ATHENTICATED

 

[kingskid1611]

My first coin collection that I had collected since a kid was not too expensive but I had some really cool coins. I had a few Napolean coins that had been given to me from an older gentleman in my church when I was 15. My wife and I got into foster care when we were only married for a couple years and was providing respite for weekends. I was showing my coins to one of the teens who came thru on weekend and the next time I looked for my coin collection it was gone.....lesson learned.

 

[TIME TRAVELER]

Yeah well. I'm still sick. I lost an 1808 piece of 8 and a 1653 ? Piece of 8 also in soft plastic dubble pouch. I know how a lot of people feel whe they lose a ring or necklace. I took them with me to show people..they think we find this kind of stuff . I really liked the 1653 piece 8. It had a chunk cut off it. It would show how people made change back then. Then relate the 2-bit. 4-bit 6- bit story to them. Most people didn't know.

 

[donj]

I once lost a silver dollar it was in 1982 and I just received my first detector a white 5500. I took the coin out to test the detector by dropping the coin in the grass in front of me and never found it. I used to tell people who asked that the detector cost $401.00.Not my favorite but definitely my most memorable.Don

 

[KeyaPaha]

After getting my new detector and back into MDing, one of my first finds was a mower bent Rosie. Being a hot day, I went to the local drinking establishment to get something cold. While there, I was showing off the dime. I swear I put it back into my pocket, but it never got home!

 

[A2coins]

i lost an 1886 indian head

 

[basssmann]

I found a 1917 Walking Liberty half dollar detecting... I cleaned it with water by my truck, and thought I put it inside... before I left the site, I had lost it... tore the truck apart, looked on the ground... still lost....

 

[Kurios1]

I lost my only 1826 1/2 Cent coin. Not many folks get in here but, a few have. I don't keep real close eyes on things and don't particularly put finds in great spots either. I do hope to find it one day soon. My oldest US coin.

 

[A2coins]

im gonna be sick

 

[Rookster]

Bummer.