A big Wonderfull shout out to David McCarthy, I won a Quint. America's first Coin

coinsarefun

Thanks to David aka @Regulated. He ran on Instagram a contest as said below,
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I will be giving away a 2018-dated gold reproduction of the very first coin struck by the United States government, the unique Plain Obverse Quint (click the link in my bio for NPR’s article about the Quint). The grand prize is one of two examples struck over an 18th century gold coin, and was made using hand-engraved dies on a real screw press - just like the genuine article. A second winner will receive one of only two silver reproductions (overstruck on an 18th century silver coin), and ten runners-up will be awarded an example struck in white metal with a mintage of 750-pieces.To enter, Follow @x_coinnerd_x, repost this image, and use the following hashtags: #firstamericancoin, #freegold, #freesilver. Winners will be randomly chosen on September 15th at noon PST
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Well, I figured I would give it a try, but I never win anything anyways bit its just a 2 second repost.
Well........I won, came in 3rd place. YAHOOOOO
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By the way....if some are not are of this yet, then a link to David's awesome research
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On to my coin.....thanks again David.
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Justacommeman

LOVE it S!!!!!!!

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MorganMan94

It's great to see it go to someone on the forum and who plans to keep it! A lot of giveaway accounts and people wanting to flip it reposted so I am glad someone here won it.

coinsarefun

Thanks @MorganMan94 I guess if anyone ever wants a permeant home for there coin I buy
Or in this case won, it’s best to give it to me. I almost never sell anything.

tradedollarnut

Nice! Congrats

Regulated

I'm really glad that you got one of them! Those photos are really fantastic, too...

Broadstruck

Sweet.... Is it silvered white metal?

Regulated

It's white metal struck on a screw press.

jwitten

Man, I was really wanting to win one of those! So cool!! Good to see it in a good home

Broadstruck

It's so 2018 with the all seeing eye of Robert Mueller

1TwoBits

That is a really cool piece from a most excellent giveaway!

Congratulations!

coinsarefun

@Broadstruck said:
It's so 2018 with the all seeing eye of Robert Mueller

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Check out the date
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Lakesammman

An overdate to boot - cool!

Paradisefound

The nicest and the most deserving @coinsarefun beat the slim odd by taking a chance.
It was meant to come home to you ...... Congrats

kaz

Extremely cool!

DCW

Nice coin!
And David is a class act. He recently helped me with a PCGS submission that was going terribly wrong.
It helps to have the Numismatist of the Year on your side, folks!

ilikemonsters

I need to check mine for the overdate, how cool!

ECHOES

Cool!

NumisOxide

Very cool!

BeefCurry808

Still waiting for him to sell some of them.. Id be first buyer haha

Regulated

I don't know whether I'd feel right selling the ones I have left. I'm thinking about what to do, since I've had a surprising number of people ask about them.

ColonelJessup

Charity Raffle?

ricko

Congratulations Stef and a very interesting prize. Cheers, RickO

Zoins

@Regulated said:
I don't know whether I'd feel right selling the ones I have left. I'm thinking about what to do, since I've had a surprising number of people ask about them.

What about making some more and selling them?

I'd buy one or a few.

Bullsitter

Too cool....

jwitten

I would buy one too!

Swampboy

Very cool piece.

History (sort of) in your hands @coinsarefun
Wonderful contest @Regulated!

crazyhounddog

Stellar is the word that comes to mind. WOW that is gorgeous.

Regulated

@Swampboy said:
Very cool piece.

History (sort of) in your hands @coinsarefun
Wonderful contest @Regulated!

Everything eventually ends up being history...

messydesk

@Regulated said:
I don't know whether I'd feel right selling the ones I have left. I'm thinking about what to do, since I've had a surprising number of people ask about them.

Thank you for including me in your next giveaway.