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I see someone was asking about a giveaway...soooo the theme of today is...SPELLING!

My teachers always said my spelling was the most creative thing about me, which I proved in my weekend auctions with not once, but twice, mis-spelling the word coronation (no it's not cornonation...) in the titles of my auctions.

The challenge is...find me the most amusing ebay (or other on-line selling forum) mis-spellings. Or just post below for the heck of it.

There will be three prizes to be picked over:

1) Modern bimetallic mommy/baby coin whose country of origin is escaping me at this point...

2) An Albanian Fake...a fairly often copied silver 5 Franga prova--the one with the dude and the oxen

3) a 1917 uncirculated and mostly red Portugal 1 centavo.

I'll post pictures "soon" (another example of me being creative).



As a sidebar, I went to Baltimore today and I have to say, going on Sunday is a bit of a bust. I had hoped to see the folks at NCS and NGC, but the only grader left was a poor, lonely looking gentleman from ANACS. Two of my grading items are Conders (I keep trying to resist them....) that I brought with me and ANACS doesn't do conders. I know, I should leave them raw. I really have business with NCS, another time I suppose.

I talked to the guy in the way, way, way back who makes keyring pulls out of coins by smushing them a little concave...you can still id the coin and he has a propensity to use darkside. I may mail him a couple Churchills imageimageimage.

Speaking of Churchills.. I saw one dealer who had a stack of four in little plastic holders...he offered them to me for $3 for all of them. I declined, but I did look them over to see if any were MS-66 candidates for Ajaan. No such luck. He was astonished I was looking at them I think.

I was happy to find the guy I think KSteelheader posted about who had a nice pile of conders and British coins. I bought two more under $50 conders (one with a stork and one with a couple griffins) and oogled a few more. I refuse to buy more on the grounds of I don't have the book yet. And I'm trying to reduce my collecting interests, not increase them...But it sure was fun looking at them. But I have 5 now--uh oh.

The only Japanese coin I saw I wanted to look at was a decent looking one yen...and it was locked in a cabinet and the dudes couldn't get it open. Apparently it was a borrowed case and they forgot the combo. Sigh.

I don't think any darksider/forumites were there. The only two people I recognized were Julian and Poorguy. I talked to Julian for a moment, I've been to his shop a few times so he recognized me. He has no idea I post over here. He's a really friendly and helpful gentleman. Poorguy I recognized from his photos...he was clearly working and running around and I have never really dealt with him, so I didn't say 'hi'.

Other than that I looked at a couple (gasp!!) liteside coins...but I won't sully our forum with the sordid details.


Cathy
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Now for the winners...

Well, thank you everyone--I got quite a few laughs!!! This was very difficult to decide--now I know why I usually have my kids pick a number. To make it easier (on me) I made up some new rules that no one knew about in advance. No need to be fair I suppose!


The KidCollector gets to choose first...very funny plus the most coin related and all that (one of the new rules I made up, but hey, it's my giveaway image) The Kid gets to pick his coin first.

Second choice is to TwoKopeiki for the enjoyment and hard-work factors!

Third was a real toss-up between Steve27 and DrJules. On the one hand I just finished spelling commemorative in exactly the fashion Mr. 27 posted (I remembered the ebay spell checker in the nick of time though). On the other hand, I REALLY want to know why Dr.Jules (the father of quite an adorable baby that surely must be a toddler by now) was looking at an auction for a glod CATSUIT????? Meow!

I will give third place to Steve27 for following secret rule #32a, finding an example of oopsie-spelling I myself could be guilty of--and nearly was within the last few hours. But, DrJules can get an honorable-mention-prize-to-be-determined-when-I-get-home-from-work-tomorrow by either posting a new picture of his adorable offspring or 'splaining himself about the catsuit. Inquiring minds want to know!

Thank you all for posting and playing...and silly ZAR for not posting when he was the one asking about a giveaway in the first place image.

Kid...please pm or post your choice!

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