ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: August , 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 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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Nothing from me, yet.
I shall try to remedy that.
Zot's Finnish 10 penniä 1914 (Czar Nikolai II). Found in Finland
14K men's gold ring
Best US Coin: 1886 Type II IHC
Best US Coin: 1897 IHC
Best Non US Coin: 1952 South Africa farthing found in Ohio.
Best jewelry: 14K diamond ring.
Best Relic/Other; Scout neckerchief slide with ingrown hair.
Best Relic/Other: Franklin County Deputy Sheriff's badge.
Best non U.S. coin
1920 Canadian 5 cent
Best non U.S. coin
1943 six pence
Best U.S. coin
1853 seated dime w/arrow's
Best token
T.Hasegawa good for 50c
Best token
Lou Bates saloon good for one drink or cigar
Best relic
Railway brass luggage tag
best relic
balsa wood fishing lure
Wild card
oxien bottle
wild card
HH,Tom
T.Hasegawa/good for 25c in trade.Since I have 2 of the token's I took a pic with them showing both side's.
Best token:
McMurray Bros. good for 5c in trade
Best relic:
1915 Pan Pacific International Exposition
I'll get a pic up ASAP.
My camera seems to have grown legs so I had to do some scans.
The engraving goes all the way around and my guess is it says... Y M Hiacenta
The Hallmark is a shield with a scroll S. Above it says "Sterling Silver" and below "Made in U.S.A."
Surface find in woods that I've hammered. Ring with heart shaped amethyst.
Jewelry
Silver charm
Relic
1600s knee buckle
Relic
Pewter pig?
Relic
Not so Mini bullet
US coin
1875 Seated Dime
Non-US coin
1736 Brit copper(in middle)
1772 Peru 8 Reale
Link to original thread
Thanks for waiting John