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Red Cross twister fund & giveaway: win a holey 1871 octagonal California gold 50c (MORE PRIZES A
lordmarcovan
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Final results and prize drawing here!
One of our forum members, Mike Long, aka "rabbitracks", is a trucker and had a close brush with death yesterday, courtesy of a tornado in Iowa.
So I have decided to pass the hat around for him (or, if he prefers, those who were affected).
(Update: funds received will benefit an appropriate Red Cross charity.)
Funny how this developed, actually- I was thinking of doing a giveaway of a particular coin in my collection that I had just upgraded, but greed got the best of me and I decided to keep it for myself (despite having just gotten another).
What can I say- gold does that to people, you know- even tiny, holed gold coins.
Then I logged on and read rabbitracks' amazing story and saw the frightening picture he took with his cellphone.
Read his story here.
It didn't take me long to realize that I was destined to give this tiny gold coin away, and to do it for a better cause than just a random giveaway. It'll still be a random giveaway, but with a charitable, twist, see.
I'm passing the hat around for donations, and speaking of hats, what better to give away than a piece of my famous Holey Gold Hat?
Every every forum member who posts here to pledge a donation for rabbitracks or his chosen charity (and fulfills that pledge) will receive an entry in the drawing.
Please post only ONCE to this thread, as the winner will be drawn by random number generator on or shortly after Monday, June 18th.
Donations may be made via PayPal to me, at rwshinnick@hotmail.com. Please label your payment "Twister Fund" so I can earmark them properly and send them on when the time comes. You need simply post a pledge here, but you do NOT need to say how much you are giving. I will keep that information confidential and will merely post recognition of those who sent something and of the total funds received at the end.
Remember, just post ONCE here. Other discussion about his adventure can be done on HIS thread.
Don't go overboard, here- just toss in a few bucks you can spare; a portion of whatever you were planning to blow on coins here on BST or eBay today anyway. We don't wanna embarrass the guy.
Mike mentioned wanting to get into the owner/operator business but I am not clear on whether or not he was the owner of the twister-trashed truck, or how much the near-disaster affected him, personally and financially. Obviously he did not ask for assistance, but I thought I would pass the hat anyway, just as a fun way to give away a coin. If he decides he doesn't really need the money or whatever, he can pass it along to where it IS needed in the twister-struck area, or to the Red Cross, or wherever he decides. It'll become his money if he needs it but if he refuses it altogether, I will donate it to wildfire victim relief in my local area.
Update: Mike has decided we should forward the funds on to the appropriate Red Cross agency. He will hopefully assist me in doing that.
Speaking of storms and disasters and relief, I am looking out the narrow window in my front door right now at the effects of Tropical Storm Barry, which is sweeping up the Atlantic coast and skirting our Georgia coastline here, right now. However, Barry seems to be a mild sort- we have not gotten much wind and I hope that remains the case. We have had light to moderate rainfall all night. Now it is getting heavier and my satellite DSL just froze up. I am typing this into a Word document and will copy and paste this thread when my Internet connection comes back.
As you may have seen in the national news, SE Georgia has suffered the worst drought and wildfires in our history, with over 600,000 acres burned. You could see and smell the smoke from where I live. Far from being a curse, our encounter with Barry has been something of a blessing so far, as the storm has brought desperately-needed rainfall to the area. It is supposed to rain all day and into tomorrow, for which we are grateful. I went out detecting the day before yesterday and the ground was so rock-hard, I had to whack it with a tire tool before I could get my shovel in the dirt!
Anyway, about the giveaway coin. This little holey California octagonal was given to me a few years back by forum member "100proof1957". I technically never wore it on the Holey Gold Hat, because the hole in it is so close to the edge that only the tiniest sliver of metal remains, and I was scared it would break off. I wanted to get a jeweler to remove the traces of old solder and reinforce the part of the rim by the hole, but never got around to that. I just upgraded to an NCS AU details piece that I am gonna probably crack out of the slab and stick on my hat. So I have two of these now. Y'know, they might even be the same variety?
So here is your chance for a cool holey. I was never 100% certain of the authenticity of this giveaway piece, since I know little or nothing about these except that they're cool. But having a certified genuine one in hand now, and re-examining this one, it looks very similar and therefore most likely real, at least to my untrained eye. If not, who cares, anyway. It was free to me and will be free to somebody else- I was gonna use it as "hat bling" whether it was real or not. Certainly it appears to be real gold, at the very least.
You can start your own Holey Gold Hat or pin it on a bulletin board or put it on a chain or get another holey one and make earrings, or whatever. (With a little repair, that is.) It is a cool little piece. I like octagonal coins, and I like gold. Octagonal gold is doubly nice, but chances are I may never own my big 1915 Pan-Pac octagonal $50 dreamcoin, so one of its teeny-tiny older cousins will have to do.
UPDATE 6/5: Mike has tossed three more (certified) coins into the pot, overshadowing my humble holey!
So when the drawing is done, the First Place winner will get first pick of the four coins, the Second Place winner will get second pick, the Third Place winner will get third pick, and the Fourth Place winner will get whatever's left!
Scroll down for his pictures of the three additional prize coins.
One of our forum members, Mike Long, aka "rabbitracks", is a trucker and had a close brush with death yesterday, courtesy of a tornado in Iowa.
So I have decided to pass the hat around for him (or, if he prefers, those who were affected).
(Update: funds received will benefit an appropriate Red Cross charity.)
Funny how this developed, actually- I was thinking of doing a giveaway of a particular coin in my collection that I had just upgraded, but greed got the best of me and I decided to keep it for myself (despite having just gotten another).
What can I say- gold does that to people, you know- even tiny, holed gold coins.
Then I logged on and read rabbitracks' amazing story and saw the frightening picture he took with his cellphone.
Read his story here.
It didn't take me long to realize that I was destined to give this tiny gold coin away, and to do it for a better cause than just a random giveaway. It'll still be a random giveaway, but with a charitable, twist, see.
I'm passing the hat around for donations, and speaking of hats, what better to give away than a piece of my famous Holey Gold Hat?
Every every forum member who posts here to pledge a donation for rabbitracks or his chosen charity (and fulfills that pledge) will receive an entry in the drawing.
Please post only ONCE to this thread, as the winner will be drawn by random number generator on or shortly after Monday, June 18th.
Donations may be made via PayPal to me, at rwshinnick@hotmail.com. Please label your payment "Twister Fund" so I can earmark them properly and send them on when the time comes. You need simply post a pledge here, but you do NOT need to say how much you are giving. I will keep that information confidential and will merely post recognition of those who sent something and of the total funds received at the end.
Remember, just post ONCE here. Other discussion about his adventure can be done on HIS thread.
Don't go overboard, here- just toss in a few bucks you can spare; a portion of whatever you were planning to blow on coins here on BST or eBay today anyway. We don't wanna embarrass the guy.
Mike mentioned wanting to get into the owner/operator business but I am not clear on whether or not he was the owner of the twister-trashed truck, or how much the near-disaster affected him, personally and financially. Obviously he did not ask for assistance, but I thought I would pass the hat anyway, just as a fun way to give away a coin. If he decides he doesn't really need the money or whatever, he can pass it along to where it IS needed in the twister-struck area, or to the Red Cross, or wherever he decides. It'll become his money if he needs it but if he refuses it altogether, I will donate it to wildfire victim relief in my local area.
Update: Mike has decided we should forward the funds on to the appropriate Red Cross agency. He will hopefully assist me in doing that.
Speaking of storms and disasters and relief, I am looking out the narrow window in my front door right now at the effects of Tropical Storm Barry, which is sweeping up the Atlantic coast and skirting our Georgia coastline here, right now. However, Barry seems to be a mild sort- we have not gotten much wind and I hope that remains the case. We have had light to moderate rainfall all night. Now it is getting heavier and my satellite DSL just froze up. I am typing this into a Word document and will copy and paste this thread when my Internet connection comes back.
As you may have seen in the national news, SE Georgia has suffered the worst drought and wildfires in our history, with over 600,000 acres burned. You could see and smell the smoke from where I live. Far from being a curse, our encounter with Barry has been something of a blessing so far, as the storm has brought desperately-needed rainfall to the area. It is supposed to rain all day and into tomorrow, for which we are grateful. I went out detecting the day before yesterday and the ground was so rock-hard, I had to whack it with a tire tool before I could get my shovel in the dirt!
Anyway, about the giveaway coin. This little holey California octagonal was given to me a few years back by forum member "100proof1957". I technically never wore it on the Holey Gold Hat, because the hole in it is so close to the edge that only the tiniest sliver of metal remains, and I was scared it would break off. I wanted to get a jeweler to remove the traces of old solder and reinforce the part of the rim by the hole, but never got around to that. I just upgraded to an NCS AU details piece that I am gonna probably crack out of the slab and stick on my hat. So I have two of these now. Y'know, they might even be the same variety?
So here is your chance for a cool holey. I was never 100% certain of the authenticity of this giveaway piece, since I know little or nothing about these except that they're cool. But having a certified genuine one in hand now, and re-examining this one, it looks very similar and therefore most likely real, at least to my untrained eye. If not, who cares, anyway. It was free to me and will be free to somebody else- I was gonna use it as "hat bling" whether it was real or not. Certainly it appears to be real gold, at the very least.
You can start your own Holey Gold Hat or pin it on a bulletin board or put it on a chain or get another holey one and make earrings, or whatever. (With a little repair, that is.) It is a cool little piece. I like octagonal coins, and I like gold. Octagonal gold is doubly nice, but chances are I may never own my big 1915 Pan-Pac octagonal $50 dreamcoin, so one of its teeny-tiny older cousins will have to do.
UPDATE 6/5: Mike has tossed three more (certified) coins into the pot, overshadowing my humble holey!
So when the drawing is done, the First Place winner will get first pick of the four coins, the Second Place winner will get second pick, the Third Place winner will get third pick, and the Fourth Place winner will get whatever's left!
Scroll down for his pictures of the three additional prize coins.
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Jim
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
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I was looking for a fun twist for a giveaway, and I think this'll do nicely.
I hope that in my whole life I can always give than receive
Jim
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
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I had a lucky month for giveaways last month, winning two in the same week, so what comes around goes around.
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Mike.
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
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myurl
Just tell me when and it will be done.
I'll be glad to help out.
Regards,
BOOM
Joe
Joe G.
Great BST purchases completed with commoncents123, p8nt, blu62vette and Stuart. Great coin swaps completed with rah1959, eyoung429 and Zug. Top-notch consignment experience with Russ.
Jerry
pledge on the way !
Btw,give us a running total if you can !
Thanks
Proof
Bruce
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One more time!!!
<< <i>Is there anyway I can donate to rabbitracks without using Paypal? Also, I don't wish to be enterred into the giveaway, just donate. >>
Jerry, if you don't really wish to be in the giveaway, you can independently donate to the charity rabbitracks mentioned in post #12 on this page, or PM him for assistance on where to send it, or just give to the Red Cross in general.
I'll bet if I was giving away a gold coin (even the tiny, damaged gold coin that it is), without any strings attached, this thread wouldn't need to be bumped.
But that's okay. I have to tell about four or five charities a week to buzz off, 'cause with telemarketers, you never know. But this ain't telemarketing and there is a potential free gold coin involved.
Just three or four or five bucks, folks. Don't feel like you have to give twenty, like some people did.
It's for the Red Cross, which is better than my original idea of singling out one forum member to give it to.
And you don't have to send the money through me. If you post a pledge here and give your word of honor that you donated to the Red Cross, you're in the giveaway.
TorinoCobra71
I have been on the recieving end of lordmarcovan's generosity not Once...but, Twice...
My paypal donation is sent.
LM
Donation sent via Paypal.
Don
Mike Long
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
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myurl
And there is no associated gold coin giveaway to help with their fundraising.
I always knew Darksiders had more heart.
1-309-743-2166 Storm of Support please let them know it is for the Muscatine County residents.
Mike.
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
rabbitracks toned showcase set
myurl
Mike.
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
rabbitracks toned showcase set
myurl
Mike.
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
rabbitracks toned showcase set
myurl
<< <i>i missed the how to or where to to send some $ via pay pal....help please >>
The vitals are in the first post in the thread.
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Donations may be made via PayPal to me [lordmarcovan] at rwshinnick@hotmail.com. Please label your payment "Twister Fund" so I can earmark them properly and send them on when the time comes. You need simply post a pledge here, but you do NOT need to say how much you are giving. I will keep that information confidential and will merely post recognition of those who sent something and of the total funds received at the end.
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/edit Donation sent. Thanks to LordMarcovan for doing this.
Mike.
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
rabbitracks toned showcase set
myurl
Chicago Ron
Paypal monies sent!
Thankyou Lordmarcovan!
Later, Paul.
Later, Paul.
Donation sent via Paypal. Thanks for your efforts in putting this together. I'm pleased to participate
in such a worthy cause.
RegistryNut
I just want to commend you for your compassion. My youngest daughter graduated high school two weeks ago and left for a mission trip to a small village in Nicaragua for ten days.
Please accept my humblest apologies for not being able to help financially at this time.
In my humility I offer thanksgiving for what I see, here.
~camaraderie~
Rob, PP sent.
Mike, I hope all is well.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
I dont, and refuse to use paypal after they took me a while back for over $2,000. If I can get down that way prior to the deadline ill toss some $ towards the charity, and you can just manually add me into the list. Nice idea!