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Blackhawk's New Years Giveaway - All Over but the Shoutin'

BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
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OK...with the thread way back on page five, I'm going to call an end to the sign-up...but I've got a new wrinkle for the contest. To repay those on the board who have filled my spare time (and some time that my wife would have rather had me doing something else) with laughs, knowledge and fellowship, I've decided that the contest will now switch to a "lets make a deal" contest.

There were 21 posters who signed up for the giveaway. I have assigned numbers to all posters by their posting order (Kuhli-1, Nanda-2, and so on). Twenty one numbers were then randomly mixed by a numbers generator and the order in which they came will be the giveaway order. Here's how the giveaway will work. The names of the contestants are listed below in the order that the numbers generator picked. The first name on the list will have their pick...the South African 1D and the Canadian token...or the mystery coin(s). Now you'll have to trust me on this - I'll pick a coin or coins before the choice and none will be complete duds, but some will be worth more than others. If the first name on the list picks the shown coins, then the second gets the pick of the coin(s) that were turned down (the pics will then be shown) or another mystery coin. I know that this may take some time, but since most are on here every day, it shouldn't be too bad. To keep things straight on my end, when you win something, drop me a PM with your addy and what you've won so that I can send it out. I did not think of this while drunk or hungover, as some of you may think image

Here are the names of the contestants in order:

Red Scorpio
NewbieCollector
Izzy452
Kuhli
JohnZ
Shipcoin
Sophia5892
Nanda
1Jester
Coincracker
DBSTrader
Sumnom
Tbirde56
Laurentyvan
Trozau
Ajaan
CosmicDebris
OldShep
Newsman
Ante
Ccrdragon

Red Scorpio...you have your pick of the coins shown below or "what's behind the curtain". Please post your choice on the thread!



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"Have a nice day!"
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Comments

  • kuhlikuhli Posts: 501
    Please enter me into this giveaway. I am only interested in the Canadian token, so if I win, I will conduct a giveaway for the South African coin.
    I'm not afraid to die
    I'm afraid to be alive without being aware of it

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  • nandananda Posts: 247
    Please enter me in this giveaway. Nice coins. Thanks for the chance.
  • tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    Great coins!
    Please enter me!
    Brad Swain

    World Coin & PM Collector
    My Coin Info Pages <> My All Experts Profile
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  • CoincrackerCoincracker Posts: 276
    Very Nice giveaway, I'll go in please.
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Please enter my name. Thanks. image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    My Gawd!! Those are beauties - please enter me!!
    Shep
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  • RedScorpioRedScorpio Posts: 46
    Love to enter! for the Token only...........AWESOME GIVEAWAY!

    Happy New Year - Blackhawk!
    Maria
    [New Zealand]
  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    I don't often enter the giveaways, but I love copper.

    We ARE watching you.

    image
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    I'm sure in! What a nice two naval coins, Blackhawk!

    Thanks for your generous giveway! image
    N. N.
  • anteante Posts: 92
    Put me in the hat!

    Thanks!
  • newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992
    Please enter me and thanks.
    Becoming informed but still trying to learn every day!
    1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003

    International Coins
    "A work in progress"


    Wayne
    eBay registered name:
    Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
    e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the chance, Blackhawk! If I win, please give the South African penny to Shep to add to his growing ship coin collection.

    Happy New Year!

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    <If I win, please give the South African penny to Shep to add to his growing ship coin collection.>
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    N. N.
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm getting more and more interested in both of those coins - - just wish there were Whitman folders for them! Please enter me in your New Year's giveaway! Thanks!

    - - Daveimage
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Great 1D! I am inimage
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • izzy452izzy452 Posts: 929 ✭
    Please enter me .

    Walt
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Please consider me. This looks good!
  • ccrdragonccrdragon Posts: 2,697 ✭
    Nice coins! Count me in too, please!!! image
    Cecil
    Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!!
    'Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup'
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm in for the Bank of Upper Canada Token. Thanks.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • sophia5892sophia5892 Posts: 10
    imageenter me plz!
  • sophia5892sophia5892 Posts: 10
    oops!!!!!!!!image sorry!!!! didn't mean to enter twice. Haven't worked out if i can delete this post yet!!!!!!
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Stunning SA! Please include meimage
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    image Please enter me, too, and Happy New Year!
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    OK...with the thread way back on page five, I'm going to call an end to the sign-up...but I've got a new wrinkle for the contest. To repay those on the board who have filled my spare time (and some time that my wife would have rather had me doing something else) with laughs, knowledge and fellowship, I've decided that the contest will now switch to a "lets make a deal" contest.

    There were 21 posters who signed up for the giveaway. I have assigned numbers to all posters by their posting order (Kuhli-1, Nanda-2, and so on). Twenty one numbers were then randomly mixed by a numbers generator and the order in which they came will be the giveaway order. Here's how the giveaway will work. The names of the contestants are listed below in the order that the numbers generator picked. The first name on the list will have their pick...the South African 1D and the Canadian token...or the mystery coin(s). Now you'll have to trust me on this - I'll pick a coin or coins before the choice and none will be complete duds, but some will be worth more than others. If the first name on the list picks the shown coins, then the second gets the pick of the coin(s) that were turned down (the pics will then be shown) or another mystery coin. I know that this may take some time, but since most are on here every day, it shouldn't be too bad. To keep things straight on my end, when you win something, drop me a PM with your addy and what you've won so that I can send it out. I did not think of this while drunk or hungover, as some of you may think image

    Here are the names of the contestants in order:

    Red Scorpio
    NewbieCollector
    Izzy452
    Kuhli
    JohnZ
    Shipcoin
    Sophia5892
    Nanda
    1Jester
    Coincracker
    DBSTrader
    Sumnom
    Tbirde56
    Laurentyvan
    Trozau
    Ajaan
    CosmicDebris
    OldShep
    Newsman
    Ante
    Ccrdragon

    Red Scorpio...you have your pick of the coins shown below or "what's behind the curtain". Please post your choice on the thread!



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    "Have a nice day!"
  • RedScorpioRedScorpio Posts: 46
    What a way to start of the New Years! Thank you sooooooo much!

    I would love the Canadian Token, I think its beautiful!

    Kiss Kiss hug hug

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    PMing U Soon, getting over the shock I have won something...........LOL
    Maria
    [New Zealand]
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Congrats to the winner and it is really fantastic coins!!imageimage
    N. N.
  • RedScorpioRedScorpio Posts: 46
    Thank You Shipcoin! Yes I am just lost for words........image

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    Maria
    [New Zealand]
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    The next to pick is Newbiecollector. You can either choose the 1968 and 1969 dollar proofs from Liberia shown below (in a very bad photo) or the mystery coin. The two Liberian coins have low mintages - the 1968 mintage about 14,500...the 1969 mintage slightly over 5000.

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    "Have a nice day!"
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
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    Shep
    Go Scorpio - go Newbie!! Congrats
    Shep
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  • newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992
    I chose the 1969.
    Thanks for a GREAT giveaway
    Becoming informed but still trying to learn every day!
    1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003

    International Coins
    "A work in progress"


    Wayne
    eBay registered name:
    Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
    e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    What is this? Nobody's picking the mystery coin? Cowards ! I wish I had entered image
    Dimitri



    myEbay



    DPOTD 3
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    Wayne...you gotta take both proofs, they go together!

    Here's the coin that you turned down. Izzy452, you've got the next pick...do you want this 1919 half crown with the lamination error on the obverse or the mystery coin? Please post your answer.

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    "Have a nice day!"
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    It starting to be very exciting, Blackhawk! Could you explain me please , what is it "lamination error"image Thanks in advance for explanations and congrats to Newbie!
    N. N.
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    If you look to the left of the King's bust, you'll see a area that looks like a gouge in the metal. The metal that the coin is made of may have had impurities or the alloy was not mixed well, resulting in areas in the planchets where the metal peels away or cracks. Part of this one has come loose and has gotten folded over on itself, resulting in an area on the coin where metal is missing.
    "Have a nice day!"
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Thanks for the explanations, Blackhawk--very interesting, for me it looks like a real gouge, but now you have cleared it for me. Just one thing... you mean "If you look to the right of King's bust" isn't it ?image
    N. N.
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    You're right, it's to the right as you look at the coinimage
    "Have a nice day!"
  • izzy452izzy452 Posts: 929 ✭
    I'll take the mystery coin, image
    Thanks for the giveaway.

    Walt image
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    Izzy, the mystery coin is actually the set of coins (Israel - 1969) pictured below.

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    The next picker is Kuhli. Please select from the 1919 GB Half Crown or the mystery coin Kuhli.
    "Have a nice day!"
  • izzy452izzy452 Posts: 929 ✭
    Cool , Thanks.

    Walt image
  • kuhlikuhli Posts: 501
    I'll take the half-crown. Am narrowing down my collecting, and Britain is one country that I want to work on.

    Thanks,
    Scott
    I'm not afraid to die
    I'm afraid to be alive without being aware of it

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  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    JohnZ is next on the list...Would you like the Bi-metallic coins shown below (Portugal, Italy, and Mexico), or what's behind the curtain?

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    "Have a nice day!"
  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    Wow, thank you!

    I love the bi-metallics, but I'll go for the surprise.

    PM sent.

    We ARE watching you.

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  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    Sorry that I didn't post sooner...I was sleeping. JohnZ - the mystery coin that you picked is pictured below, a 1947 Syrian 50 piastres.

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    The next to choose is Shipcoin. Would you like the 3 bi-metallics or the mystery coin?
    "Have a nice day!"
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Thanks for the your generous giveaway, Blackhawk! I would like the mystery coin, because I already have some of these bi-metallic coins image

    PM will be send

    Once more thanks!
    N. N.
  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    Shipcoin...the mystery coin is a 1929 2½centesimos from Panama (see below).

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    Sophia5892, it's your pick. Would you like the 3 bi-metallic coins show a couple of posts back or the mystery coin?
    "Have a nice day!"
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Interesting coin you won, Nick! A 2.5 centesimos from Panama!

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Thank you very much , Bill!! I just couldn't find any words to express how I like that coin image Actually, I try to complete my naval coin's theme by the coins which depict such pionners and travelers as Columbus, Vasko de Gama and others. So I have looked for any coin from Panama, because them (almost all if I'm not mistaken) has that guy at the obv.!!! And that Balboa will take a honourable place in my collection, because it will remind me .... Jester imageimageimage each time I'll look at the coin! imageimage


    Thanks for that fantastic coin!
    N. N.
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭✭
    GADZOOKS!!! The suspense is KILLING me!! image

    Some GREAT surprises so far!image
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Only 11 more to goimage
    Shep
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  • BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    Because I cannot contact Sophia5892, I will move the thread on and put her back in the rotation when she logs on.

    Nanda, you're next...would you like the bi-metallic coins or the mystery coin?
    "Have a nice day!"
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