ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: OCTOBER , 2005 "QUALITY" AWARDS (Best Coin/Jewelry/Relic/Wildcard
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Please enter your finds (or nominate somebody else's finds) for this month's four Metal Detecting Forum "Quality" awards:
The four "quality" award categories are:
Best Coin/Token
Best Jewelry Item
Best Relic/Other
Best "Wild Card" Find
There is no limit on the number of entries per forum member. If your find seems humble in comparison to some of the others, don't sweat it- we like to see what everybody's found, be it humble or fantastic. Just post your item and a brief story of how you found it, or a link to your thread about the find, if there was one. If you can, post a picture of your item (small to medium-sized pictures of single items, please, rather than large groupings, since the pictures will be used in the poll threads at the end of the month). If you make a neat find and do not post it here, we might miss it later when we put the award polls up, so be sure and post your better finds here even if you already posted your own thread about them. Also, let us know what category you're entering for.
Best Coin/Token: this category is pretty self-explanatory. Note that it is for detector finds only, though- if a coin or token was found in circulation or by eyesight, it belongs in the "Wild Card" category. The award is for single coin finds, though if a cache is found all in the same hole and/or same container at the same time, it may be entered as a single item.
Best Jewelry Item: also pretty straightforward, but if you find coin jewelry, you can choose to put it here or in the Coin category. Also, if you find lost jewelry and return it to its proper owner, you still get to enter it in the competition, even though it wasn't "finders keepers". (See if you can get a picture of it, though).
Best Relic/Other: this category pretty much covers anything found with a detector that isn't a coin or jewelry.
Best "Wild Card" Item: this category is only for finds made without a detector. It may include coins or jewelry, but if you found those with your detector, they go in the categories above. This is for surface "eyeball" finds, circulation coin finds, and pretty much anything else, including nonmetallic finds like arrowheads, bottles, fossils, gemstones, gold nuggets, minerals, natural history specimens, pottery, prehistoric artifacts, and so on. Be sure and mention that the item you are entering is a "Wild Card" find, so we'll know which category to put it in when the polls go up at the end of the month.
The four "quality" award categories are:
Best Coin/Token
Best Jewelry Item
Best Relic/Other
Best "Wild Card" Find
There is no limit on the number of entries per forum member. If your find seems humble in comparison to some of the others, don't sweat it- we like to see what everybody's found, be it humble or fantastic. Just post your item and a brief story of how you found it, or a link to your thread about the find, if there was one. If you can, post a picture of your item (small to medium-sized pictures of single items, please, rather than large groupings, since the pictures will be used in the poll threads at the end of the month). If you make a neat find and do not post it here, we might miss it later when we put the award polls up, so be sure and post your better finds here even if you already posted your own thread about them. Also, let us know what category you're entering for.
Best Coin/Token: this category is pretty self-explanatory. Note that it is for detector finds only, though- if a coin or token was found in circulation or by eyesight, it belongs in the "Wild Card" category. The award is for single coin finds, though if a cache is found all in the same hole and/or same container at the same time, it may be entered as a single item.
Best Jewelry Item: also pretty straightforward, but if you find coin jewelry, you can choose to put it here or in the Coin category. Also, if you find lost jewelry and return it to its proper owner, you still get to enter it in the competition, even though it wasn't "finders keepers". (See if you can get a picture of it, though).
Best Relic/Other: this category pretty much covers anything found with a detector that isn't a coin or jewelry.
Best "Wild Card" Item: this category is only for finds made without a detector. It may include coins or jewelry, but if you found those with your detector, they go in the categories above. This is for surface "eyeball" finds, circulation coin finds, and pretty much anything else, including nonmetallic finds like arrowheads, bottles, fossils, gemstones, gold nuggets, minerals, natural history specimens, pottery, prehistoric artifacts, and so on. Be sure and mention that the item you are entering is a "Wild Card" find, so we'll know which category to put it in when the polls go up at the end of the month.
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With John goin' Yeti and me going mostly Yeti, I'm glad somebody stepped up to the plate.
I hope to come back around more when cool weather comes and I am able to do some detecting. Lately things have been bad at work and I have not been able to devote much time to thinkin' about diggin'.
Tot lot find. Using my DFX with BigFoot coil. Picked up 5 quaters in one spot.
The first was silver!!!
Jerry
Tot Lot find
Jerry
This wallet was found next to a trash can. Had a movie ticket stub AND stuffed down in a small pocket
I found $15.00. Must have been "mad" money that was forgotten.
Jerry
925 silver ring with alot of stone's.
HH,Tom
this is a 3/4 grooved axe made of granite was found 10/5/05 in union co ohio
it's 3 3/4 inch's long axe's this small are sometime's called pocket axe's
the only thing i could see was the bottom of the axe laying in the field when
i found it.This was my first artifact of the fall hunting season
thank you for looking
Bill
Russian 1/2 Kopek 1915
(condition is exactly as found)
Here is my entry for best relic. The Queen Victoria badge from 1897.
Here is my entry for best coin. 1806 George III farthing.
1845 Large Cent
1791 Conder Token
1963D dime
1853 dime
Isle De France Et De Bourbon 3 sous 1781A
1795? Large Cent
1797 Large Cent
1808 Large Cent
1783 Nova Constellatio
Relics
Large button
Small button New Hampshire
Jewelry
Silver earring
14k wedding band