ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: July, 2006 "QUALITY" AWARDS (Best Coin/Jewelry/Relic/Wildcard fin
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Please enter your finds (or nominate somebody else's finds) for this month's five Metal Detecting Forum "Quality" awards:
The five "quality" award categories are:
Best Non-U.S. Coin/Token
Best U.S. 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 Non-U.S. Coin/Token: This includes all world coinage with the exception of US minted coins obviously.
Best U.S. Coin/Token: this category is pretty self-explanatory. Note that it is for detector finds of coins minted in the U.S from 1776 to present - 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 five "quality" award categories are:
Best Non-U.S. Coin/Token
Best U.S. 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 Non-U.S. Coin/Token: This includes all world coinage with the exception of US minted coins obviously.
Best U.S. Coin/Token: this category is pretty self-explanatory. Note that it is for detector finds of coins minted in the U.S from 1776 to present - 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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1918-D Mercury dime. Nice and clean- photographed exactly as it came out of the ground.
Link to original "Digger's Diary" thread
1900s barber dime
HH,Tom
The ring is for my Best Jewelry and the 1927 Buff the Best Coin entry.
Costa Rica 100 Colones 1997
Jerry
Pres. Coin
Jerry
Button with metal rim = tortoise shell?
Jerry
Zot's 18k gold ring (ring made in 1913, 9.59 grams)
Zot's 18k gold ring (ring made in 1926, 11.94 grams incl. stone)
Zot's 18k gold ring (ring made in 1920, 7.50 grams)
Zot's 18k gold ring (ring made in 1963, 4.45 grams)
Zot's old gold ring with mourning inscription
Edited to add: because of this, Dubba will automatically get my vote, not that it will make any difference with Zot blasting in with that *cough* 1725 gold ring...
1938 Walker
For Best Relic:
World War I Collar Disc
Also for Best Relic:
Old Pocketknife probably from the 1920s or 30s
It looks like cast lead like an old toy soldier.
And where is Steve's half cent?
Y'all better post them, to save me the trouble of nominating them.
Go ahead.
(I predict the Best US Coin and Best Jewelry Item polls will be little more than a formality this month...)
Say, Doc- I like the choo-choo!
commoncents' first detector find: a Winton Touring Car medallion/token, showing a circa 1908 Winton Touring car.
Winton was the first American company to sell a motorcar.
Link to original thread
My best coin for the month:
1840 Seated Half-dime (may be a folded love token)
And, my best relic for the month:
1800's Powder Flask Top (Made of lead and used for "corking" a container that would hold gun powder)
Jim
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
1794 US Half Cent:
Musky- I think you said those were past finds on those dimes? This is technically only for coins found this month (July, '06).
But we'll take 'em, anyway.
Not that it'll make any difference in the polls, with Steve's half cent! That's gonna be a tough act for anyone to follow!
Edited to add: because of this, Dubba will automatically get my vote, not that it will make any difference with Zot blasting in with that *cough* 1725 gold ring... >>
you just go ahead and vote for zots ring....i know i will! that is the find of a lifetime, i think?....have a great august everyone.