ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: MAY, 2007 "QUALITY" AWARDS (Best Coin/Jewelry/Relic/Wildcard find
HKnJ
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Please enter your finds (or nominate somebody else's finds) for May '07'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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Found this dollar size token for best US coin/token entry, same size as silver dollar (38mm) but made of copper:
>>Found the token, It's listed on the second eddition of the Kappen token book.
At time of print, Only two had been reported.
PIONEER / CIGAR / STORE / C. VAN DEVENTER OXNARD, CAL. // GOOD FOR / 25 / IN TRADE
Brass and 25mm in size.<<
Jerry
R.I.P. pendant
Jerry
Warranted Superior
Info: Eagle 1860's Hand Saw Disc: These are the ones that so often are misidentified as a button when shaft is missing. Actually they were mounted on handsaws of the period. Marked "Warranted Superior" with a droop wing eagle.
Jerry
Costume bracelet
also best jewlery
also costume jewelry
Best coin/token
good for 25c in trade token
Wild card
this porcelain doll
and one more Wild card
This old medicine bottle I eyeballed
HH,Tom
Zot's Finnish silver 25 penniä 1869
Zot's Finnish silver 25 penniä 1901
JEWELRY:
Zot's olympic pin, Stockholm, 1912
Zot's 18K gold ring
Zot's 18K gold ring #2
Zot's silver pin
RELIC:
Zot's star
The '46 was last months wildcard find from the CoinStar and the '42 my son found in change.
1915 Barber quarter
I went out for a one-hour walk last night, and on the way down my block saw a pile of household items that a neighbor put out at the curb prior to his upcoming move. Among the stuff I spotted a couple of nice looking picture frames, and I made a mental note to check them out on my way home.
When I did so, they were indeed nice--well worth saving from the garbage truck. Even better, they were sitting next to a large glass vase filled with just over ten pounds of modern foreign coins. Have a look:
I was more than willing to go to the trouble of lugging that vase half a block to my house.
Thanks to Lord Marcovan for suggesting that I enter the contest!
My Cub Scout canteen cap for relic
big silver from Texas... 1917 Walking Liberty half dollar:
It was totally crusted. I put it thru the sonic cleaner at work and the hit it a bit with a scotch pad.
This won't compete with Zot's gold but at least I found a tiny bit of AU for the month.
Best jewelry:
10K Gold ear ring
Mary
Lafayette Grading Set
G.
G.
gene2393
Thanks
Chicago Ron