The first step to recovery is to admit that moving is very destructive to EC collections. Every time I relocate, I seem to lose a dozen coins. Out of which, 8 I’d never figure out that I’ve lost, 3 I’d perplex over for several years to come, and 1 I’d confirm right away and that would always be among one of my favorites.
I want to go through all of the nicely labeled coins first, probably because that’s easier than sorting through the random ECs I tossed into a box while packing. For example, the first coin that I fished out reads “MEERKAT, ADELAIDE ZOO”. Did I press this? If not, who gave it to me? Where is Adelaide Zoo? Where’s the rest of the set? And why doesn’t the image look anything like a meerkat?
As it turned out, Adelaide Zoo is in Australia. So that solved most of the mysteries (Aussies got great accents, but they were never good at drawing meerkats.) After carefully labeling the coins, I tried to find my foreign coins box. This took a long time. There were moments when I wondered if this was the end, because I’d kill myself if somehow all my international coins were lying in a dumpster somewhere by accident. Then I remembered that I used the box as a door stop when I first unpacked it a few months ago… Whew~
Of course, it couldn’t have been this easy… I couldn’t login to phpMyAdmin, undoubtedly due to the lack of use. Oh well, maybe the same password will work if I try again tomorrow.
