Fifteen years on the forums (*** LOTTO TICKET WINNERS ANNOUNCED ***)
lordmarcovan
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*** 8/24 UPDATE ***
Most everybody chose lotto tickets as prizes. Those results are posted below. Scroll down. A few people won free tickets, so we'll try again on those.
*** 8/23 UPDATE ***
It's time to give away some prizes!
Now, there's nothing earthshaking here, of course, but I can hopefully spread a little bit of love around fifteen ways.
These are the prizes, and the folks selected by the random number generator.
See what list your name is in and for what prizes, and shoot me a PM as to your preferences.
If you'd prefer the PayPal gift option, I'll need your email address.
If you choose the lottery scratchoff option, scroll down to pick your tickets. Since most of you are not in Georgia, I will scratch them here and pay them out via PayPal gift (unless, of course, you win BIG, in which case we'll have to go through the GA Lottery bureau. One hopes we'll have such a situation, but ... don't hold your breath, right?)
18th century Russian cross
... or $5 PayPal gift
... or $5 GA Lottery scratchoff ticket(s)
or the first of these two to choose may have the shark tooth below instead, since WillieBoyd2 opted for PayPal gift.
Fossil Megalodon shark tooth + BU Wheatie
... or $5 PayPal gift
... or $5 GA Lottery scratchoff ticket(s)
$1 PayPal gift
... or $1 GA Lottery scratchoff ticket
(Original post)
In less than a week from this post I will have 15 years here.
It has been a long, interesting, educational, occasionally frustrating, and almost always enjoyable journey.
I've gotten more respect here than I deserved, and have learned more than half of what I know about numismatics during my tenure here.
SO, I thought another giveaway would be appropriate, and since Registry collecting brought me here in 2001, I thought about giving away a PCGS PR70 DCAM 2001-S silver Roosie.
But then I thought that might bore some of you more jaded folks who have "seen it all", so why not give away something a little more unusual and interesting, that one might not see every day?
So I looked around, and for less than the price of that modern silver Roosie, I got three of these cool old relic Russian crosses.
I might give one of them to my mother-in-law, but that leaves two to give away here.
If you're an oldtimer around these parts, share an amusing or interesting anecdote from forum history.
If you're more of a newcomer, then post whatever you like most about the forums here.
TWO winners will be randomly drawn on my 15th forum anniversary (8/17/16), and each will get one of the crosses below.
(PS- I might edit this later to sweeten the pot by adding some shark tooth fossils, too, 'cause we find those here where I live and they've proven popular with y'all.)
Update: more stuff added below. FIFTEEN winners will be drawn!
The ancient coin dealer I got 'em from provides lots of bang for the buck, and nice little informational tags.
Hopefully each of the two crosses will have its own tag, but if not, I'll copy one so each cross will come with a tag as shown above.
EDIT: No, make that THREE winners!
Somebody will also get this fossil shark tooth. (And the Wheatie shown for scale- which is a full Red BU but doesn't look it in my hasty cellphone pic.)
This is just a "baby Meg" but it's got an interesting shape. Probably one of the very back teeth out of the monster's mouth.
EDIT again: No, make that FIFTEEN winners!
This is a fifteenth anniversary giveaway, after all.
So ONE person will get the shark tooth.
TWO people will get 18th century Russian crosses.
And TWELVE others will get a PayPal gift of... *gasp!* one whole dollar!
Don't spend it all in one place!
(You know me- I live large. Haha.)
So keep the stories and reminiscences and stuff comin'.
Most everybody chose lotto tickets as prizes. Those results are posted below. Scroll down. A few people won free tickets, so we'll try again on those.
*** 8/23 UPDATE ***
It's time to give away some prizes!
Now, there's nothing earthshaking here, of course, but I can hopefully spread a little bit of love around fifteen ways.
These are the prizes, and the folks selected by the random number generator.
See what list your name is in and for what prizes, and shoot me a PM as to your preferences.
If you'd prefer the PayPal gift option, I'll need your email address.
If you choose the lottery scratchoff option, scroll down to pick your tickets. Since most of you are not in Georgia, I will scratch them here and pay them out via PayPal gift (unless, of course, you win BIG, in which case we'll have to go through the GA Lottery bureau. One hopes we'll have such a situation, but ... don't hold your breath, right?)
18th century Russian cross
... or $5 PayPal gift
... or $5 GA Lottery scratchoff ticket(s)
- LotsoLuck (chose lotto ticket #021- I gave him that plus #023 'cause he gave me a coin recently)
pcgs69 (chose lotto ticket #022)
or the first of these two to choose may have the shark tooth below instead, since WillieBoyd2 opted for PayPal gift.
Fossil Megalodon shark tooth + BU Wheatie
... or $5 PayPal gift
... or $5 GA Lottery scratchoff ticket(s)
- WillieBoyd2 (chose PayPal gift- paid)
$1 PayPal gift
... or $1 GA Lottery scratchoff ticket
- ajaan (chose lotto ticket #164)
cameonut2011 (chose lotto ticket #166)
Catbert (chose lotto ticket- didn't specify number- gave him #161)
DrBuster (chose lotto ticket #165)
DRUNNER (chose lotto ticket- didn't specify number- gave him #162)
Lakesammman (chose lotto ticket #169)
MICHAELDIXON (chose lotto ticket #170)
oih82w8 (didn't hear from him on 8/23 so I chose ticket #163 for him)
ProofArtworkonCircs (chose lotto ticket #160)
Walkerfan (chose lotto ticket #167)
WoodenJefferson (didn't hear from him on 8/23 so I chose ticket #168 for him)
123cents (didn't hear from him on 8/23 so I chose ticket #171 for him)
(Original post)
In less than a week from this post I will have 15 years here.
It has been a long, interesting, educational, occasionally frustrating, and almost always enjoyable journey.
I've gotten more respect here than I deserved, and have learned more than half of what I know about numismatics during my tenure here.
SO, I thought another giveaway would be appropriate, and since Registry collecting brought me here in 2001, I thought about giving away a PCGS PR70 DCAM 2001-S silver Roosie.
But then I thought that might bore some of you more jaded folks who have "seen it all", so why not give away something a little more unusual and interesting, that one might not see every day?
So I looked around, and for less than the price of that modern silver Roosie, I got three of these cool old relic Russian crosses.
I might give one of them to my mother-in-law, but that leaves two to give away here.
If you're an oldtimer around these parts, share an amusing or interesting anecdote from forum history.
If you're more of a newcomer, then post whatever you like most about the forums here.
TWO winners will be randomly drawn on my 15th forum anniversary (8/17/16), and each will get one of the crosses below.
(PS- I might edit this later to sweeten the pot by adding some shark tooth fossils, too, 'cause we find those here where I live and they've proven popular with y'all.)
Update: more stuff added below. FIFTEEN winners will be drawn!
The ancient coin dealer I got 'em from provides lots of bang for the buck, and nice little informational tags.
Hopefully each of the two crosses will have its own tag, but if not, I'll copy one so each cross will come with a tag as shown above.
EDIT: No, make that THREE winners!
Somebody will also get this fossil shark tooth. (And the Wheatie shown for scale- which is a full Red BU but doesn't look it in my hasty cellphone pic.)
This is just a "baby Meg" but it's got an interesting shape. Probably one of the very back teeth out of the monster's mouth.
EDIT again: No, make that FIFTEEN winners!
This is a fifteenth anniversary giveaway, after all.
So ONE person will get the shark tooth.
TWO people will get 18th century Russian crosses.
And TWELVE others will get a PayPal gift of... *gasp!* one whole dollar!
Don't spend it all in one place!
(You know me- I live large. Haha.) So keep the stories and reminiscences and stuff comin'.
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Actually I had an impact on your collection back in 2002 when I posted as relayer
The Registry had just started and there were four 8 piece major type gold sets. You posted you were going to do a MS63 set and get them pedigreed.
I had the same idea and did a MS64 set and was going to add them and asked that you enter your 63 set first so you could get the pedigree.
I tried numerous times to get you to do it, but you wouldn't do it and decided to take your collection in yet another direction and sold your 63 set.
It probably worked out better for you because you certainly have built an unique collection and my set has fallen to like #20.
Even though I was gone for almost a decade, you continued to contribute, inform and entertain the US Coin Forum.
Congratulations.
Actually I had an impact on your collection back in 2002 when I posted as relayer
The Registry had just started and there were four 8 piece major type gold sets. You posted you were going to do a MS63 set and get them pedigreed.
I had the same idea and did a MS64 set and was going to add them and asked that you enter your 63 set first so you could get the pedigree.
I tried numerous times to get you to do it, but you wouldn't do it and decided to take your collection in yet another direction and sold your 63 set.
It probably worked out better for you because you certainly have built an unique collection and my set has fallen to like #20.
Even though I was gone for almost a decade, you continued to contribute, inform and entertain the US Coin Forum.
YOU were relayer? Cool! I didn't realize that. So you're more Old School than I knew! And obviously you remember my brief time in the top ten on that gold set- a feat I could never hope to duplicate today. I sold the set to provide seed money for my little antique mall business, played with that a few years, had fun with it, then decided I'd never have the capital or guts to be a brick-n-mortar dealer, so I sold the (tiny) business and took up being just a collector again.
Still, it would have been neat to see a "Lord Marcovan" pedigree on some PCGS holders. I remember you telling me to go for it, though I had forgotten who I had that conversation with.
Huh. "Relayer" . "Topographic Oceans". Both Yes albums. I get it now. Was just listening to "90125" in the car on the way home. (I'm a child of the '80s so that's more my kind of Yes album. I have that and "Talk". Used to have "Fragile" but that's all. But I'm also a fan of some of the Yes spinoffs like Asia and Anderson/Wakeman, Anderson/Kitaro, etc.)
I remember your post, "Southern Hospitality for a Northern Digger", when you hosted the legendary phut (Tim, I think was his name) down your way for a metal detector outing. At the time I wasn't into detecting, but now that I am, I realize what an amazing feat it was for him to pluck Spanish silver from the Georgia soil.
Congrats from another 15-year member
Rob,
I remember your post, "Southern Hospitality for a Northern Digger", when you hosted the legendary phut (Tim, I think was his name) down your way for a metal detector outing. At the time I wasn't into detecting, but now that I am, I realize what an amazing feat it was for him to pluck Spanish silver from the Georgia soil.
Congrats from another 15-year member
That detector outing was awesome! He plucked a 1799 half-real from a site my buddies and I had "hammered"- and my local buddy Billy is a Jedi-class detectorist! I just dug up that old thread, but sadly the pictures (which I think I hosted on the old CU site) are dead now.
Also sadly, Tim Buck, aka "phut", passed away four years ago, on August 31, 2012. He was only 49 years old.
He was an incredibly skilled detectorist and relic hunter. Those of you who never read his exploits should just take a good close look at the pictures in his last thread, if you want your mind blown! He definitely went out with a huge "bang", detecting-wise! (Three big bangs, actually. Check out that link.)
Well time does fly by....and I was on the forum preceding the one before this.... I do remember when you came aboard LordM.... and have been entertained by your stories and coins ever since that eventful day. I thoroughly enjoyed your metal detecting stories.. and your photograph of the road through trees is one of my favorite pictures. I hope I win the sharks tooth... but I am happy just to celebrate your anniversary. So many forum members have left since I have been here... and the forum is hurt by their loss...... on the plus side, you continue to contribute enjoyable and informative posts. Thank you, Cheers, RickO
We've lost some good ones, but seem to gain more as time goes on. I suppose 'tis but the Wheel In The Sky a' turnin', to quote my favorite Journey song.
It took me a moment to think of the "road through trees" picture you spoke of.
Then I remembered this old sig line picture I took at the Avenue of Oaks at Retreat Plantation here on St. Simons Island.
Here is something of the history of that spot.
In searching up that old pic, which had seemingly gone bad with all my old forum-hosted attachments in the software changeover, I notice that if I post it with an "https" URL it works again, so maybe there is hope for restoring some of the dead pictures in my older threads, like the metal detecting story WhiteTornado mentioned...
I'm a read the book first person and love the history behind our coins. Learning, is what drew me here to the forums.
Thanks for the chance.
Much like him your enthusiasm for coins has a much greater effect on those around you then you might realize. And being able to communicate that through a medium like a message board is even more impressive.
You don't look a day over 10. Wait...what?
LordM, nothing to do with coins but I recall when you were posting about your infant daughter. Now you are posting that you have the old phone in the family because the new smartphones always go to teenaged daughters! What a long, strange, and, in this case, wonderful trip it's been!
Baby girl went off for her first day of high school this very morning, as nervous as a three-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
I told her that if a once scrawny, geekish, totally socially inept nerd like her father could survive freshman year, she's got it made. Not only is she every bit as smart as I was, but she's got beauty and 3-4 times the social sophistication I had (or lacked) at that age. She'll be fine.
UPDATE: this just in. Official "Victoria's First Day of High School" picture:
I just gave away the Russian crosses as ball marks last week to golf buddies . . . they have received every denomination, composition, and era of coin known to man in the last 15 years, so I have to be a little creative in ball marks now . . . hence the crosses last week.
Have another great 15 . .
Drunner
I have enjoyed your posts also, and it's cool to actually make friends thanks to these great boards.
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I hope to see you here for another fifteen years my friend.
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
WS
Congratulations. I have found your posts to be informative and interesting.
This!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
I still have the four Roman coins you sold me in 2008.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
I'm sure smoething funny has happened since we've been here. I'll just have to think a minute...
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
I can't get it to link
https://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&threadid=671300&highlight_key=y&keyword1=Yap
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
Here's to 15 more.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Yes the Yap Stone story, one of the best!
Steve
If I win anything please pass it along to a YN.
My 15th will be in September, it's been a fun, educational ride with posters like you, cladking, SaintGuru, Mozin, Lance and so many others too numerous to mention.
10-4,
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My registry sets
Congratulations LordM. I cannot imagine a forum without your presence and influence. Don't think I'd want to even if I could. I feel privileged to be a small part along with you in the O-129 discovery coin. Do you still have the Overton book with the signatures?
If I win anything please pass it along to a YN.
The 1806 O-129 discovery was another memorable one for sure. Even though I was the cherrypick-ee in that particular deal, I got a great story out of it, and enjoyed the signed book you gave me a while before I passed it along to someone who'll get more use out of it. That was a nice gesture from you and took away any residual remorse I might've had over letting that coin slip through my fingers (though I never really had much in the first place). I personally would have never known what I had there, so good for the folks who had the specialist knowledge to make the discovery. I've always been a "general practitioner" and very seldom a specialist.
Congrats on 15!
Anyway back to your OP. Being that I am of the Jewish persuasion, I will put in a bid for the shark tooth. If a Russian cross befalls me, pass it on to another bloke or lady. If I should win a paypal $1, it will be passed along to a charity.
Wishing you many, many more happy and healthy 15-year anniversaries brother.
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You've always been a worker bee here, making the forum a fun place.
For that, I'm grateful.
I'm a mid-pack member and missed the wild west days but remnants of those days would pop up occasionally when I first signed up.
Especially on the weekends and it was fun.
There used to be giveaways or some sort of contest almost weekly and I like that you still carry that flag.
I miss many of the big personalities that are no longer here due to natural causes or the bam hammer.
I'll never be a prolific or knowledgable contributor so I appreciate all currently here who take the time to keep the boards a great place to learn and laugh.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
When I think of you, I enjoyed seeing your old top hat avatar and your ever changing collection that I think has liberated you to collect pieces that you find compelling regardless of origin or period. I am taking a similar approach these days, although I have not yet leaped into the ancients. So glad you're here and continue to participate unlike the many who've left the board as i sadly see when looking through old threads.
Thanks for being you!
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
LMK when you're ready to "go Ancient".
I'm happy to give general tips and answer questions (mostly by steering you towards the many folks who know WAY more than I do about them).
WOW! What a love fest for lordminivan. Having known Rob for the past 15 years, my 15th anniv. is next month, there is so much to say about my friend. One non forum story is when Rob came up with a unique way to crack a coin out of a slab, I think it was a $20 gold piece in a PCI slab. I believe it was at a FUN show when he put the slab between two floor boards and kicked the slab to crack it. His stories are 'interesting', the LAP stone was a classic. He is really a nice, quiet guy in person, and luckily his daughter looks like her mother.
I know! It's like getting to attend my own wake without having to be dead yet! Just like Tom Sawyer!
Aha! So you witnessed the first foot crackout, Don? Works like a charm. But there's no kicking involved. It's more of a gradual, clutch pedal sorta motion. I still use that technique to this day, and it only sounds violent. Haven't harmed a coin yet. I'll shoot a video tutorial of the technique if anybody wants. LOL. No tools necessary. Just a wooden deck or steps with a wide enough gap in the boards.
FUN 2003, I think that was. Cold even in Florida that January.
One of my other memories of that trip was when i fell asleep in that condo on the couch and snored the roof down (my sleep apnea was as yet undiagnosed then). Then you and/or Terry shot video of me. I think a still photo of me lying in a coma on the couch (mouth no doubt agape and drooling) is still floating around in the archived Darkside forum threads, ain't it?
BTW, that 1904 $20 I cracked out of an old PCI green label MS62 holder went MS64 at PCGS. I had melt money in it-$400-ish at the time. In PCGS 64, it trended for something like $1600 at the time. Cha-ching! Probably- no, DEFINITELY- my best crack-n-cross ever. That one worked out even better than the XF 1914-D cent I found in a bulk Wheatie lot.
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don