WTB 2 Gold Coins for good cause - $240 each range <info inside>
sumrtym
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Ok, some of you were kind enough to help me and my club out before on this forum when searching for junk silver, mainly dimes, for our Annual Metal Detecting club hunt. I'd link to the old thread, but apparently, it no longer exists......soooo......
Mid-Western Artifact Society (MWAS) is a club in Kansas City focused on metal detecting. We have active members who are coinshooters, civil war relic hunters, a retired gold prospecting hobbyist, and even privy diggers who are focused on finding and publishing new and previously unknown bottles from small Kansas towns/ghost towns. The club consists of around 50 members, having added several new ones in the last few months. The club is non-profit, and also volunteers to do work with the State and local archeologists. One of our recent projects was helping recover artifacts from a major campsite located at the crossing of the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. The area was slated for construction of a new park for Olathe, and thanks to the efforts of many volunteers of our club, in cooperation with the archeoligists, we recovered many artifacts that would have been lost forever, including a mid-1800's cavalry cuff button. In addition, we also volunteer and work with the local police to find bullets in shooting cases, weapons, etc. We were involved in helping to try and locate clues during the Precious Doe case when the body was discovered, and findly solved earlier this year. Just this past week, we worked with police to try and locate a pair of handcuffs discarded by a recently released rapist after he used them in another crime of the same type in a wooded area on a public walking trail in the middle of the day of a park located in a nice residential area.
Each year, members of our club can choose to participate in an Annual Club Hunt in which tokens for prizes are planted (usually 70), and junk silver coins and wheat pennies buried in the field. 100% of the money for the hunt and the money the club has taken in for the year goes into this hunt. We also offer children the chance to get into the hobby and introduce them by way of a FREE kids hunt, made up entirely of donations by the members. Relatives, neighbors, friends kids....all are invited and we have detectors available for them to use. This year, one of the prizes is even an older model, but very nice, detector that some lucky kid will win.
Many members of this board have come through in the past with donations / sales of junk silver to our club to help us reach our goal on silver dimes. We reached the goal way in advance of when I expected we would, as I had visions of us scrambling for coins clear up till September. Thanks to your generosity and assistance, that fear was alleviated.
Now, if you remember, we also have a gold coin raffle to encourage attendance at monthly meetings where you can only buy tickets at the meeting. 100% of those funds go into the purchase of a single U.S. gold coin. We also have as top prize for one of the tokens, whose number will randomly be drawn after the hunt as the first prize given away, another U.S. gold coin.
The club is looking to purchase the gold coins for around $240 each this year. If you could, please post any submissions you would like to make and would part with for this amount to this thread. Obviously, it does NOT need to be a slabbed coin. It doesn't have to be a rare date. It can even have some minor damage (rim nick, etc.). We obviously would like the best coin possible, but emphasis is on higher denominations, with a $10 taking precidence over a $5, and then condition. Please consider this a way of helping out our organization, and reward the members who try to give back to the community, and share a great hobby together as well. The club hunt is the last weekend of September this year, so I'd like to make a decision with our club president by early September.
Since the other thread I can no longer locate, posted below will be pictures from the dedication ceremony of that park in Olathe with which we helped to make a reality. You'll notice our club name listed on the plaque unveiled on the main shelter house.
Sincerely,
Daren
MWAS Secretary
Mid-Western Artifact Society (MWAS) is a club in Kansas City focused on metal detecting. We have active members who are coinshooters, civil war relic hunters, a retired gold prospecting hobbyist, and even privy diggers who are focused on finding and publishing new and previously unknown bottles from small Kansas towns/ghost towns. The club consists of around 50 members, having added several new ones in the last few months. The club is non-profit, and also volunteers to do work with the State and local archeologists. One of our recent projects was helping recover artifacts from a major campsite located at the crossing of the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. The area was slated for construction of a new park for Olathe, and thanks to the efforts of many volunteers of our club, in cooperation with the archeoligists, we recovered many artifacts that would have been lost forever, including a mid-1800's cavalry cuff button. In addition, we also volunteer and work with the local police to find bullets in shooting cases, weapons, etc. We were involved in helping to try and locate clues during the Precious Doe case when the body was discovered, and findly solved earlier this year. Just this past week, we worked with police to try and locate a pair of handcuffs discarded by a recently released rapist after he used them in another crime of the same type in a wooded area on a public walking trail in the middle of the day of a park located in a nice residential area.
Each year, members of our club can choose to participate in an Annual Club Hunt in which tokens for prizes are planted (usually 70), and junk silver coins and wheat pennies buried in the field. 100% of the money for the hunt and the money the club has taken in for the year goes into this hunt. We also offer children the chance to get into the hobby and introduce them by way of a FREE kids hunt, made up entirely of donations by the members. Relatives, neighbors, friends kids....all are invited and we have detectors available for them to use. This year, one of the prizes is even an older model, but very nice, detector that some lucky kid will win.
Many members of this board have come through in the past with donations / sales of junk silver to our club to help us reach our goal on silver dimes. We reached the goal way in advance of when I expected we would, as I had visions of us scrambling for coins clear up till September. Thanks to your generosity and assistance, that fear was alleviated.
Now, if you remember, we also have a gold coin raffle to encourage attendance at monthly meetings where you can only buy tickets at the meeting. 100% of those funds go into the purchase of a single U.S. gold coin. We also have as top prize for one of the tokens, whose number will randomly be drawn after the hunt as the first prize given away, another U.S. gold coin.
The club is looking to purchase the gold coins for around $240 each this year. If you could, please post any submissions you would like to make and would part with for this amount to this thread. Obviously, it does NOT need to be a slabbed coin. It doesn't have to be a rare date. It can even have some minor damage (rim nick, etc.). We obviously would like the best coin possible, but emphasis is on higher denominations, with a $10 taking precidence over a $5, and then condition. Please consider this a way of helping out our organization, and reward the members who try to give back to the community, and share a great hobby together as well. The club hunt is the last weekend of September this year, so I'd like to make a decision with our club president by early September.
Since the other thread I can no longer locate, posted below will be pictures from the dedication ceremony of that park in Olathe with which we helped to make a reality. You'll notice our club name listed on the plaque unveiled on the main shelter house.
Sincerely,
Daren
MWAS Secretary
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As to gold in the $240 range, I just sold an NGC MS61 $2.50 Indian for that exact price.
I have an AU58 1907 Repunched Date $2.50 Liberty that would be somewhere in that pricerange. It is only in a PCI gold-label holder (which has a few hairline cracks), but despite the less-than-great holder I believe it to be correctly graded and I do not remember seeing any wear on it. (Couldn't see the repunched date, either, but it is so attributed on the holder.)
Also have an 1874 PCGS AU58 gold dollar for about $210 or so.
Gotta love those Indians. Let me clarify though what I mean by "can have minor damage". My definition of "minor" is far beyond what most might consider minor. That means can be pretty worn, some scratches or dings, etc. In this price range, I'm not shooting for the moon on quality, and certainly no need to be slabbed. More "common" dates are fine for this as well. To give you an idea, the past 2 years we have had $10 gold Liberty coins for prizes. I'm hoping to keep a $10 coin in there, or at least a $5, with the nicest quality with which someone is willing to part. However, I do appreciate you're offerings. Let's see what people can come up with, as I've been pleasently surprised by the generosity of many on this board towards our club thus far.
On a side note, if anyone has access to good pricing on any of the silver kilo coins released each year from China, Australia, etc., or can tell me how to buy direct for the lowest price I can, I'm suggesting we put it to a vote next year about going for one of those as a prize instead of a gold coin in the Annual Hunt. That of course will be up to the members, and what price we could obtain on one sometime next year.
This year however, we're deep into the search for the two gold coins....and we've only got 1-1/2 months to the hunt!!!