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Numismatic March Madness GIVEAWAY and Tournament!

KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 10, 2019 6:49PM in U.S. Coin Forum

As we approach March Madness, I think it appropriate that on these forums we have a version of our own - numismatic March Madness!

The rules are simple. From now until April 8, on the dates listed below, voting will take place. In each round, you choose which coin should win! It doesn't matter why you chose that coin - maybe you like the design, maybe it has a cool name, or maybe you just hate the other coin. Whatever coin receives the most votes proceeds to the next round until we reach the championship on April 8! Here is the bracket of coins I have randomly paired together:

The dates of each round are as follows:
March 10
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25
March 29
March 30
March 31
April 1
April 5
April 6
April 7
April 8
Look for voting on each of these dates!
So, this post is Round 1: the powerhouse Morgan Dollar versus the beautiful Walking Liberty Half Dollar! Who will win? You decide!

ADDITIONALLY: Comment below who you think will win the entire tournament before March 15 and if you are correctly then you will be entered in a random giveaway for a one ounce silver round! Get your guesses in! (Please only guess once, or you will be disqualified)

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Numismatic March Madness GIVEAWAY and Tournament!

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    jabbajabba Posts: 3,159 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 11, 2019 8:50AM
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    I’m in buffalo nickel


    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923

    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923

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    KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭

    @jabba said:
    I’m in

    In order to enter, you must comment what coin you think will win the entire tournament.

    YN Member of the ANA, ANS, NBS, EAC, C4, MCA, PNNA, CSNS, ILNA, TEC, and more!
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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,261 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Guessing the Buffalo.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 10, 2019 7:25PM
    Morgan Dollar

    The Morgan Dollar has a huge following. It will win this contest if all of the Morgan Dollar dealers and collectors vote.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    erwindocerwindoc Posts: 4,927 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Tough top bracket!!

    Im going to roll with the buffalo nickel to upset the Morgan dollar in the semi's and beat the Oregon commem in OT, LOL!

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    jclovescoinsjclovescoins Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 10, 2019 7:06PM
    Morgan Dollar

    Flowing hair dollar for whole tournament

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    JeffnluJeffnlu Posts: 283 ✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Flowing hair dollar wins the dance.

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    HJP717HJP717 Posts: 76 ✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Morgan Dollar

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    smokincoinsmokincoin Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    The Buffalo Nickel

    BST items for sale
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    air4mdcair4mdc Posts: 803 ✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    I’ll give it a shot

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    NSPNSP Posts: 322 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    I think the Saint Gaudens $20 will win it all.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    It is interesting that the Lincoln Cent and State Quarters didn’t make the cut.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    I'm going with the Flowing Hair $, with a last second bucket over the $20 Saint.

    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong
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    RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    By the way, I lost 10 pounds (I wish!) trying to figure out who'd win between the Morgan and the Walker...I love them both!

    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong
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    morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Flowing hair dollar to win the tournament

    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
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    Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Buffalo for the win on left. Fugio on right.

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753

    https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/

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    JasonGamingJasonGaming Posts: 926 ✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Flowing hair dollar. Beautiful, early US coin. Thanks for the interesting competition!

    Always buying nice toned coins! Searching for a low grade 1873 Arrows DDO Dime and 1842-O Small Date Quarter.

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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    $20 Saint.

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    KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    It is interesting that the Lincoln Cent and State Quarters didn’t make the cut.

    Yep, I tried to pick a variety of coins - I skipped on the State Quarters specifically because of how many different designs they have. The Wyoming is so much different than the Washington, for example.

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    KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    Buffalo for the win on left. Fugio on right.

    But which do you think will win it all :)

    YN Member of the ANA, ANS, NBS, EAC, C4, MCA, PNNA, CSNS, ILNA, TEC, and more!
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    Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    @KellenCoin said:

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    Buffalo for the win on left. Fugio on right.

    But which do you think will win it all :)

    Buffalo

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753

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    privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,190 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Im in Morgan dollar.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

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    GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 10, 2019 8:53PM
    Morgan Dollar

    I'm in. Buffalo Nickel for the WIN.

    GrandAm :)
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    KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭

    @GRANDAM said:
    I'm in.

    Which coin do you think will win the whole tournament? You must answer that question to enter.

    YN Member of the ANA, ANS, NBS, EAC, C4, MCA, PNNA, CSNS, ILNA, TEC, and more!
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    coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 10,778 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    $3 gold for the win

    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
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    Sun DiegoSun Diego Posts: 63 ✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Fugio to take it all. Can’t be beaten.

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Walking Liberty for the win.

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    EdtheloraxEdthelorax Posts: 229 ✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    I have to go with the Flowing Hair Dollar for the win, even though I'm voting for the Pine Tree every chance I get.

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    TestoonTestoon Posts: 152 ✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    St. Gaudens double eagle for the championship!

    Bill
    witty quote goes here
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    KccoinKccoin Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    way to shake things up!

    I am guessing the Buffalo nickel takes it

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    illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 11, 2019 5:42AM
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    I would have guessed the Morgan Dollar would have been a number 1 seed and would have been winning by a huge margin...

    Time to bust up those brackets!

    Go WLH!!!

    :+1:

    Edited to add that it'll be the St. Gaudens $20 Double Eagle that will be cutting down the nets in April!

    Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 11,917 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Morgan Dollars were the workhorse of the economy back in the day. The wagon wheel will always be a favorite and was used more than the Walking Liberty Half Dollar...and do I dare mention the colors that the Morgan's can be found in? Not so much the Walkers.

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    CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Flowing hair Dollar takes it all.

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    rmorganrmorgan Posts: 249 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 11, 2019 7:20AM
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    No Mercury Dime anywhere in the brackets !?! :o

    I would think that the Winged Liberty would make the final 16.

    My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.

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    KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭

    @rmorgan said:
    No Mercury Dime anywhere in the brackets !?! :o

    I would think that the Winged Liberty would make the final 16.

    Sorry if I disappointed you :) If you want to enter the giveaway, simply say what coin you think will win it all.

    YN Member of the ANA, ANS, NBS, EAC, C4, MCA, PNNA, CSNS, ILNA, TEC, and more!
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    KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭

    @oih82w8 said:
    Morgan Dollars were the workhorse of the economy back in the day. The wagon wheel will always be a favorite and was used more than the Walking Liberty Half Dollar...and do I dare mention the colors that the Morgan's can be found in? Not so much the Walkers.

    That is a gorgeous coin! Does that mean for the giveaway you are guessing the Morgan dollar will be the champion?

    YN Member of the ANA, ANS, NBS, EAC, C4, MCA, PNNA, CSNS, ILNA, TEC, and more!
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    rmorganrmorgan Posts: 249 ✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Walking Liberty Half - my vote for taking it all.

    My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.

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    Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Morgan, for sure.

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    im in as well. ill go with the fugio cent.

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    carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Gotta go with the Flowing Hair, even though it is the dollar instead of the half.

    Gawain

    Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
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    MattTheRileyMattTheRiley Posts: 806 ✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Pine Tree Shilling for the win!

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    joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 14,898 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    Thanks for the chance! Unusual giveaway, but cool.
    I'll pick my all-time MVP, the Morgan Silver Dollar B)

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    DDRDDR Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Morgan Dollar

    I voted Morgan with Saint to win it all.

    David
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    Mdcoincollector2003Mdcoincollector2003 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    I voted for the Walking liberty for a couple reasons it’s design is used one of the biggest US coins. It was part of the most beautiful time for coins which include the buffalo, mercury and standing liberty. It is was also used during the World Wars.

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 11, 2019 12:22PM
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    @johnny9434 said:
    im in as well. ill go with the fugio cent.

    im in the walker half camp as well

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    illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    This is more of a final four match up than a first round game! Very close one!

    Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448

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    FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Flawed brackets. No Stander or Merc Dime. Looks like a ESPN bracket that is bias to the SEC or East Coast.

    Ken

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    Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    Fun idea. I will guess Flowing Hair dollar for the end.

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    1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    The Pine Tree is going to be the winner :smile:

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