Got a $100 bill for a tip last night... givin' it away! (WINNER IN FIRST POST)

lordmarcovan

...of course, it is a Hong Kong $100 bill.

One of the more unusual room service tips I've received- sold 'em a bottle of Veuve Clicquot. I also got an American bill with a picture of Abe Lincoln on it. I'll keep the fiver, you can have the hundred if the random number generator smiles on you.

Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, One Hundred Hong Kong Dollars. Dated July 1, 2003. Reddish, with a red lion's head on the front and a suspension bridge on the back. Watermark, metallic security strip, etc. Legends in English and Chinese. Interesting looking piece of currency.

I don't even know offhand what the foreign exchange rate is. What's a hundred HK dollars worth these days? Eight or ten bucks US? More? Less? Too lazy to look it up.

Anyway, post ONLY ONCE to this thread, and you're in the drawing for a hundred bucks!

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FINAL UPDATE

Today, my only day off in forever, is Catch-Up-On-A-Million-Overdue-Shipments-And-Giveaways-Day, so it is also time to close this giveaway and get it shipped.

There are 78 replies to this thread. Consulting random.org, we need to generate one random integer in a range of 1-78.

The random.org generator (which has been kind to me lately since I just won two other people's giveaways), says our lucky winner is...

Post #44.

Now I have to count posts. Back in a sec...

(later)

Oh, cool. I just realized I don't have to count posts. I can go to "Customize", temporarily set my preferences to display 44 posts per thread, and see who's at the bottom of page one. (Bear this in mind, giveaway-givers- it works- I just counted to be sure).

Our winner is...

Kaelasdad!

farthing

LM - About $12.75 these days.

Please throw my name in the hat!

DesertRat

That's cool! We haven't had a giveaway here in a long time

Thanks

dan8402

Sounds interesting to me too. Please enter me

spoon

I'll bite I've always wanted one of these but have been too cheap to get one.

Here's a pic from Ron Wise's site:

spoon

Y'know.. I really wish the banknote forum here were more active in foreign stuff. I've got a ton, and lots of oddball stuff at that, but no one to share it with

Oh well.

Ed.: Oops! Looks like I'm the first to violate LMs "one post" rule!

lordmarcovan

<< <i>That's cool! We haven't had a giveaway here in a long time >>

Yeah, what, a whole hour and a half, maybe?

Farthing- thanx for the info. 'Bout what I figured. I knew it wasn't worthless- tennish was my guess, so I was close.

Spoon- since you nailed it and posted a picture of exactly what it looks like (thanks), I'll let you slide on the "one post only" rule.

By the way, what you posted is exactly what the winner will receive, except mine is serial number BA084777.

Gotta have three lucky sevens at the end, y'know!

STLNATS

OK, I never post to these, but this is just too pretty and something I know absolutely nothing about. Please enter me.

Thanks!

pbfloyd

thanks for the chance

drwstr123

I could use it towards a detector.

Cameonut

Cool story - thanks for the chance.

sTONER

thankyou my lord

Goober

Wowzer I wish I got cool tips like that. When Canadians come down to pick up freight they're always tipping, but usually no more than $10

AskRaq

That's pretty cool, my daughter (17 yrs. old) would totally get into that!! I try to pick up foreign currency/coins for her when I get a chance

Weather11am

Thanks for the entry!

agentjim007

IN LIKE FLINT

ajaan

post

nicholasz219

Count me in!

Nick

Tonedbuff

Hey, ten bucks is ten bucks! Its a nice shade of red too!
Thanks for the chance!

MadMarty

Thanks for the chance Lord Minivan!!!

basestealer

Where is gypsy handing out treasures? Do not trick me I will find treasure chest.

drjules

Throw my name into that wonderful hat of yours

thanks

Dr J

StopMotion

Thanks for the chance!
SM

ledzep87

Man, that note looks cool! Better than what our currency looks like now.

gemstatecoins

I'm in... thanks for chance

mcheath

Thanks for the chance

mrpaseo

Cool, I'll take a crack at your tip, thanks for the chance.

Ray

blueifalcon

Count me in please

sbeverly

I'll take a try also...

Thanks

shuckins

thanks for the chance

PhillyJoe

Nice giveaway and it's not as scary as I thought over here.

Joe

sweetwilliet

Count me in, thanks!

MrSpud

Thanks

Darkmane

Thanks!

oldshep

I'm in for my grandaughter who has a nice little worl currency collection started.

Shep

RegistryCoin

Thanks LordM. My first time spending any time on the darkside. Anyway since I'm here, I just got slabbed an 1821 GB Crown, a Secundo - pcgs ms64. Don't know much about it, but if anyone's dying to have it for their set, let me know. I don't know too much about value. Would be interested to find out though. I saw that a pcgs ms65 went on HA recently for $5175 with the juice. At the same time, I got a 1919 Canadian 50cent piece, pcgs ms64 - also available. I saw on HA that some of these say "New Foundland". Can I assume that since this isn't mentioned on the slab, that it isn't a New Foundland piece?
(I hope this post doesn't break any of the forum rules )
Thanks again!

speety

Please enter me into your giveaway, thanks!

cheezhed

I'm in.

tightbudget

Count me in. Thanks!

coinman420

thanks, count me in. cool sounding note.

coinpictures

woot! Ya know.... in comparison to currency used throughout the world, the design and color of U.S. currency is downright drab and boring.

ccmorgan

Probably only worth 10c but it has very nice graphics, so count me in. Thank you Lord!!

MORGANHUNTER2

My first time to the Dark Side

I'm going to give it one shot Oh Lord of the marcovan.

hopefully when I think about chinese- I'll have a hundred reasons why I did this..

Kaelasdad

What the heck, I can always take penicillin if I catch anything here right? right? If I win, its going to the kid, she will love it. Thanks, Russ

tsacch

Cool man, thanks for the chance, If I win, promise to donate it to the charity of your choice

keez

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the chance and glad you got some rain there.

jmj3esq

Me too, me too.

Rickc300

You can throw my hat in the ring as well! Cool tip and and thanks for passing it along!
Rick

ModernCrapNut

ModernCrapNut

Heck, I'll give it a try since I'll be in SE Asia around the end of the year.

Musky1011

Enter me please

Jim