1000th post giveaway -- grading contest with three winners! TIME'S UP -- WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
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EDIT to add -- This contest/giveaway ends on Saturday, September 4 at 5:00 PM Central Time.
Here's my obligatory 1000th post giveaway. The winner will receive a 1922 Peace Dollar which is one of the coins to grade in this contest. Second place will receive a PCGS PR-69DCAM 1978-S Ike. Third place will receive a raw VF 1874 three-cent nickel.
In the spirit of the recently completed "World Series of Grading," I figured I'd make my contest a miniature version of that contest using six coins. I apologize in advance for the pictures of the coppers; I really have trouble getting them to come out right.
The coins are as follows: 1867 and 1878 Indian Cents (NGC), 1867 Three Cent Nickel (NGC), 1938-D Buffalo Nickel (PCGS), 1920-S SLQ (NGC) and a 1922 Peace Dollar (PCGS, the first prize in this contest). For the coppers, no color designation is necessary as both are obviously BN. Scoring is as follows:
* 5 points for each coin whose grade you get exactly the same as the PCGS or NGC graders did;
* 3 points for each coin where you miss by one grade above or below (i.e. saying a VF-35 coin is VF-30 0r XF-40);
* 1 point for each coin where you miss the grade by two above or below (saying a VF-35 coin is VF-25 or XF-45);
* 1 bonus point for getting two of the six exactly correct;
* 2 bonus points for getting three of the six exactly correct;
* 4 bonus points for getting four of the six exactly correct;
* 6 bonus points for getting five out of six correct;
* 10 bonus points for getting all six correct (i.e. the "royal flush" of this contest which no other combination can beat);
* 2 "demerits" (lost points) for not following the requested format for your answers (explained below).
The requested format of your answers is simply six numbers separated by comments, such as "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6" but with the six numbers replaced by the numerical grade in the order the coins were listed in the links below. If you thought all were Fine-12 except the 1878 Indian (the second coin listed) which you thought was VF-25, for example, your answer should say:
12, 25, 12, 12, 12, 12
This is to make it easier for me to quickly find the answers and calculate scores. Failing to do this will cost you two points.
The maximum number of points is 40 (getting all six right); getting five of six right, the maximum would be 34 points and for four of six, 30 points and so on.
At the end of the contest -- at 5:00 PM Central Time on Saturday, September 4 -- I will announce that the contest is over, calculate the scores and reveal the grades (and the announce the three winners). The highest score is the winner. Edited postings are disqualified, as are entrants who submit multiple entries.
All ties are broken by giving preference to the earlier response.
I know doing it with six coins is a lot, but adding more coins reduces the chances of a many-way tie for best score and gives more people a chance to participate without duplicating what others have already picked. Here are links to each of the coins. Remember to format your answer in the order these coins are presented in the links below! Thanks for playing, and most of all, have fun.
Coin #1: 1867 Indian Cent
Coin #2: 1878 Indian Cent
Coin #3: 1867 Three Cent Nickel
Coin #4: 1938-D Buffalo Nickel
Coin #5: 1920-S SLQ
Coin #6: 1922 Peace Dollar
Here's my obligatory 1000th post giveaway. The winner will receive a 1922 Peace Dollar which is one of the coins to grade in this contest. Second place will receive a PCGS PR-69DCAM 1978-S Ike. Third place will receive a raw VF 1874 three-cent nickel.
In the spirit of the recently completed "World Series of Grading," I figured I'd make my contest a miniature version of that contest using six coins. I apologize in advance for the pictures of the coppers; I really have trouble getting them to come out right.
The coins are as follows: 1867 and 1878 Indian Cents (NGC), 1867 Three Cent Nickel (NGC), 1938-D Buffalo Nickel (PCGS), 1920-S SLQ (NGC) and a 1922 Peace Dollar (PCGS, the first prize in this contest). For the coppers, no color designation is necessary as both are obviously BN. Scoring is as follows:
* 5 points for each coin whose grade you get exactly the same as the PCGS or NGC graders did;
* 3 points for each coin where you miss by one grade above or below (i.e. saying a VF-35 coin is VF-30 0r XF-40);
* 1 point for each coin where you miss the grade by two above or below (saying a VF-35 coin is VF-25 or XF-45);
* 1 bonus point for getting two of the six exactly correct;
* 2 bonus points for getting three of the six exactly correct;
* 4 bonus points for getting four of the six exactly correct;
* 6 bonus points for getting five out of six correct;
* 10 bonus points for getting all six correct (i.e. the "royal flush" of this contest which no other combination can beat);
* 2 "demerits" (lost points) for not following the requested format for your answers (explained below).
The requested format of your answers is simply six numbers separated by comments, such as "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6" but with the six numbers replaced by the numerical grade in the order the coins were listed in the links below. If you thought all were Fine-12 except the 1878 Indian (the second coin listed) which you thought was VF-25, for example, your answer should say:
12, 25, 12, 12, 12, 12
This is to make it easier for me to quickly find the answers and calculate scores. Failing to do this will cost you two points.
The maximum number of points is 40 (getting all six right); getting five of six right, the maximum would be 34 points and for four of six, 30 points and so on.
At the end of the contest -- at 5:00 PM Central Time on Saturday, September 4 -- I will announce that the contest is over, calculate the scores and reveal the grades (and the announce the three winners). The highest score is the winner. Edited postings are disqualified, as are entrants who submit multiple entries.
All ties are broken by giving preference to the earlier response.
I know doing it with six coins is a lot, but adding more coins reduces the chances of a many-way tie for best score and gives more people a chance to participate without duplicating what others have already picked. Here are links to each of the coins. Remember to format your answer in the order these coins are presented in the links below! Thanks for playing, and most of all, have fun.
Coin #1: 1867 Indian Cent
Coin #2: 1878 Indian Cent
Coin #3: 1867 Three Cent Nickel
Coin #4: 1938-D Buffalo Nickel
Coin #5: 1920-S SLQ
Coin #6: 1922 Peace Dollar
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<< <i>Edited once directly after post (so please don't count me out) >>
It was too quickly edited to see what others were saying and change it (or make me have to revisit everyone's old scores, which is the main thing) -- I'll make an executive decision and allow it since the first results I saw were on this edit.
To others, this is not a precedent to take advantage of!
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<< <i>I'm going to do something unusual, because I suspect a possible trick here, but I'm going to say that none of these coins were graded and were all returned in bodybags. >>
For anyone who can get their answers in within 3-4 minutes from now...you're wrong! All are slabbed.
The "perfect" response, then would be "53, 45, 63, 66, 50, 64". The results are below (hoping I tabulated the scores correctly -- I triple-checked but I could be wrong)...
The winner of the PCGS (rattler) MS-64 1922 Peace Dollar, with 27 points out of a possible 40, is boiler78! After a somewhat slow start on the coppers (which happened to pretty much everyone), boiler78 ripped off a hot streak by getting ALL of the final four coins right on the money -- becoming the only contestant to get four of the six exactly correct.
In second place with 26 points, and winning the PCGS PR-69DCAM 1978-S Ike, is hookedoncoins. The third-place prize, a raw VF 1874 three-cent nickel goes to MacCrimmon with a score of 22.
The copper coins stumped almost everyone -- it's probably because of my pathetic pictures on these coins. Several came fairly close to the 1867 -- and two nailed it -- but no one got the 1878. Everyone overgraded it and generally the consensus was that it was better than the 1867 (with a few exceptions). Maybe I should crack that one out and sell it as a raw uncirculated on eBay with those pictures. (Just kidding!) In reality, with the coin in hand, the '67 is clearly nicer. Blame my picture-taking.
The average was a little over 13, and the median was also 13.
Other "awards" of note (no extra prizes, sorry, but worth noting) are as follows:
"Also rans" (honorable mentions, others just "out of the money"): Tied with 20 points were prooflike, Numismanic and pursuitofliberty. Entrants coinfreak499 and ibzman350 had 19 and Myqqy scored 18.
"Batting .500" award (got three of the six correct): coinfreak499, MacCrimmon, pursuitofliberty and hookedoncoins.
"Just off the bullseye" award (most consistently close with no exact hits): Gonfunko scored a solid 15 points by virtue of coming within one grade of all coins except that pesky '78 Indian -- but never hit the exact grade.
"Contact hitter" award (got at least one point on all coins): MacCrimmon, ibzman350, eddieal, Peetie and hookedoncoins. I should add that hookedoncoins was the only entrant to come within one grade of all six coins -- three right, three one grade off.
The most commonly guessed coin was the Buffalo (13 entries of 34 hit the MS-66 grade) followed by the 1867 three-cent nickel (8 got the MS-63 designation on the nose). Seven hit the SLQ and the Peace Dollar. Two correctly identified the 1867 Indian as AU-53, and as mentioned, no one got the 1878 Indian and very few came close.
I will soon be sending PMs soon to the winners to request shipping information for your prizes (or just PM me if you beat me to the punch -- whatever works for you). Thanks for playing, and I hope you all had fun with it.
Nice contest, Ziggy.
THAT WAS THE PERFECT post giveaway GAME,I LOVE IT.!!!!!!!
AND WE ALL GOT BETTER AT GRADING .(I HOPE)
LITTLEJOHN
WOULD IT BE TO MUCH TO ASK FOR A WHOLE LIST OF WHAT WE ALL GOT.???
LITTLEJOHN