ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: JANUARY, 2006 "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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(Sorry for the wretched pics).
Link to January 5th's outing.
14k gold woman's ring (stones are cz... "just as good as a diamond"
Post with details.
10k gold man's ring with real diamonds.
All 7 diamonds add up to almost 1/4 carat.
Post with details.
22 LR Bolt action tube fed? I never saw one of these. I have seen simi auto with a 18 round tube feed, but not a bolt action.
The barrel is heavy and has a loop for a sling.
Jerry
UPDATE: found three more that week.
Wild card: early 1800's broad hoe found and discarded by another relic hunter- was on top of the ground when I found it, so I spotted it before my detector did.
So somewhere between 1586-1635. This isn't my oldest coin (well, it really isn't a coin afterall, but I still consider it that) that I have found, but the oldest found where you can still recognize what it is.
I can't get a picture of the reverse to load right now, but I will get that pic on soon.
Thanks for looking!
That's good, though- I wouldn't wanna win with a mere 1881 Indian cent. That jeton is almost sure to get my vote later when the polls are up, unless one of our other dig gods chimes in with something truly amazing.
PS- note the elliptical clip on the planchet, there. Neat, neat, neat. A truly enviable find.
That's good, though- I wouldn't wanna win with a mere 1881 Indian cent. That jeton is almost sure to get my vote later when the polls are up, unless one of our other dig gods chimes in with something truly amazing.
LM,
Don't worry, someone (ZOT, Phut, Dino-uk, etc) will surely chime in at the last minute with a gold coin or some other ultra old, knock your socks off, pristine detail of a coin.
You know how we track the amount of silver coins we find? I bet Dino probably tracks his gold staters the same way
I would show you this dug (yes dug) old English Jetton which dates from 1280-1343.
This is exactly as it came out of the lovely sandy soil of Norfolk UK.
This is not an entry to anything, as I dug it in 2003, but I'm still amazed at what can be dug here in the UK.
Speer...you know you can come hunt with me whenever you wish.
1850A 50 centimos
for best relic this old bullet
HH,Tom
Thanks
Rick
Always Looking for Raw Proof Lincoln Cents !!
Im over here in Japan... and the change here has obviously been here for a while (on base). I have not received over 10 state quarters... so those probably came from people coming here... but I have found these in the past week...
1953 D Roosevelt Dime
1958 D Roosevelt Dime
the 1953 was found in change... and the 1958 was found on the floor in the barracks
Edited to add: I will try and get a couple pics of them together later on this week.
Eagle I cuff button
This 1850's-1860's Chinese button
HH,Tom
Wildcard entry:
HH,Tom
Likewise for Relic/Other, my Civil War/Indian Wars General Service Eagle cuff button found the same day (in a different, but nearby park).
(Somebody on the Troy Detectors forum suggested to me that this "Chicken Eagle" type button is postwar and dates from the Indian Wars period just after the Civil War. That sounds plausible to me since I knew the eagle was a different style from other Civil War eagles I've dug, but the backmark index in the Albert book dates that backmark to 1859-63, so who knows).
For the Coin category, also from January 10, back in the square where I found the watch, this 1889 Liberty nickel which is still undergoing "conservation" in my rock tumbler (ergo, no good pictures yet).
(Man, I sure thought I had my first two cent piece, there.)
Link to January 10th outing.
HH,Tom
1867s seated dime
7" .925 Ladies/Girls Braclet
Thanks
Rick
Always Looking for Raw Proof Lincoln Cents !!
<< <i>I don't have a picture, but I eyeballed a $20.00 bill on the floor of the local supermarket. Do I need a picture to enter it? I'd like to enter it as my Wildcard find. >>
Jerry
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<< <i>I don't have a picture, but I eyeballed a $20.00 bill on the floor of the local supermarket. Do I need a picture to enter it? I'd like to enter it as my Wildcard find. >>
Jerry >>
LOL...sure thing....
Zot's 14k gold ring
Link to original thread
Non-US coin category:
Zot's corroded Danish 25 Öre 1924
Link to original thread
Any late entries? I'll be posting the polls in a few days.
Lunch hunt find but I'll warn you... it's one of those "only a mother could love" coins
1908-S Ugly Duckling Barber Dime
(original post)
Old Waltham pocket watch movement with porcelain dial.
Found on the night of January 31/February 1, 2006.
Actually, it was probably 1:30 AM on February First when I dug it, so never mind- do not enter it in January's polls. I will put it in February's when the entry threads are up. After all, I already have a partial pocket watch entered already. Too bad this one is smaller than the other, or I could combine them and make a complete watch!
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