ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: FEBRUARY, 2006 "QUALITY" AWARD (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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Non-US coin category
Zot's Danish 2 öre 1874. Found in Denmark
7" gold bracelet (guess would be that it's 10k but I haven't had time to get it tested)
(dime added for size comparison)
Zot's Danish army uniform button
Relic
Zot's button #2
Relic
Zot's Carlsberg porcelain beer bottle cap (pre-1933 with swastika for "good luck")
Jewelry
Zot's sterling silver brooch
10k gold ring.
HH,Tom
This key,it is a big one and heavy.
HH,Tom
It is a 1907 Indian Head Cent I got in my change at the supermarket.
The date has a little crud on it and in hand it is very difficult to read and probably why it lasted so long in the wild.
My TV Blog
Lucky Pocket piece
HH,Tom
This Chinese clay marble
HH,Tom
1814 capped bust dime and 1891 seated dime
Samson Sieve Grip Tractor fob from 1912-1919
HH,Tom
Just an old pocket watch :-(
thanx for looking
vincent
It is a boy and girl sitting on a fence under an umbrella.
HH,Tom
lordmarcovan's small group of old pottery sherds and clay pipestems from a late-1700s/early 1800s homesite.
(Entering as one item since they're all from basically the same spot).
Best Non-US Coin:
phut's 1799 Spanish Colonial (Mexico City) silver half-real, from the same homesite.
Best Relic/Other:
phut's old one-piece, two-hole anchor button (non-military, #2 in picture below).
Best US Coin:
phut's 1903 Liberty nickel (#3 in picture below).
Hafted Scraper salvaged from an Ohio Thebes point dating to 5,000 BC.
The tough to find Eagle R button from the Civil War. R stands for Rifleman. Rifles weren't a common weapon until late in the war. So to be in a Rifleman's group ment you were a good shot.
Wild card/non-detector find.
1961D Rosie from a CoinStar machine.
<< <i>One of these days if I find something really good, I'm going to sit on it until the last day of the month and post it here at 23:59 to snipe the category from under the noses of people who have entered their "bids" well in advance!
Check some previous months.......Its been done.