Back in April of this year, I responded to a question on Quora. For those who don’t know, Quora is a social media Q&A platform. Users ask and/or answer questions on a myriad of subjects. The question I answered was: “What is the scariest unexplainable thing that ever happened to you?” I have had an interest in the paranormal since childhood, but as I matured, I developed a healthy skepticism in the sense that I attempt to find a reasonable explanation for something that seems magical or supernatural. However, the narrative I wrote about on Quora continues to baffle me. Perhaps you, the reader, can offer a better explanation than I for how an ancient Greek or Roman coin dropped into my bedroom out of thin air. To give a little background, after my sister Susan died, I began finding pennies in unexpected places—the middle of my bathtub or inside a slipper, for example. Of course, I find pennies in places you might expect to find them, such as on the ground or a table or the floor of my car. Since I find pennies in all these places, both expected and unexpected, I wonder if each time I find a penny, is it a sign from Susan? Common sense would tell me no, but here’s an incident I cannot explain: I had just taken a shower and walked naked into my bedroom. I picked my nightgown up from the bed and slipped it over my head. As the nightgown slid down my body, I heard “plink”—the sound of a coin falling onto the floor. The coin (shown below) is smaller and much thinner than a U.S. penny, and thousands of years older. Having an interest in the supernatural, I recalled hearing the word apport, which is French for to bring. An apport is an object that appears by seemingly spiritual means. Supposedly, Mediums could apport objects during seances, but I believe most of those instances are hoaxes.
I searched my memory for any way I may have come upon this coin. The only circumstance I recall was a visit I had made to The British Museum in London where I saw a display of Greek and Roman coins. But that was fifteen years ago, and I did not purchase any ancient coins as keepsakes. I had never seen this coin before. The question, where did the coin come from, and who sent it remained. As I mentioned earlier, I had written about this coin in Quora. I had dictated rather than typed the narrative into my iPad, and I spoke the words, “I wonder if my sister sent it.” Instead of typing the word “it” the word auto-corrected to the word “yes.” I tried repeating the word “it” many times, and the iPad continued typing “yes” until finally I realized my question was being answered. Yes! The coin is from my sister. Once I made the connection, I had no further issue with typing the word “it”. I haven’t yet taken the coin to a collector. I’ve looked at Greek and Roman coins on the internet, but haven’t found an image of the exact coin. Several readers suggested the coin might be worth a lot of money, but from what I could find out, the monetary value of the coin is around forty U.S. dollars. To me, however, this coin is a gift from the spirit world, a precious priceless gift from Susan.
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Lainie
10/14/2021 08:30:38 pm
Joanna, that’s a *most* fascinating event. I do believe it was Susan! I don’t know if you remember about the dimes that I kept finding after Donna died. It had started the night we were at the hospital while learning about her pancreatic cancer. We had a long wait for the doctor to come back after the CT Scan. The dimes started falling out of her jeans pockets and we were laughing about it. Right after she passed away and I started cleaning out her apartment, I discovered that there were loads of them everywhere. They weren’t only in her van or the apartment, but I was constantly finding them on sidewalks, parking lots and hallways. It went on for about 5 years and then slowed down to 2-3 times a year. She and I are still sharing laughs about those wily dimes! I hope she can see my smiles and feel my love.
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Molly Ellowis
10/19/2021 10:45:47 am
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