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ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: JULY, 2007 "QUALITY" AWARDS (Best Coin/Jewelry/Relic/Wildcard fin

Please enter your finds (or nominate somebody else's finds) for the 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.
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Comments

  • Best Jewelry Item

    21 stones--tested = Diamonds :-)

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    Ring story

    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • Best Non-U.S. Coin/Token

    Old People's Coin... ;-)
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    Older Persons Coin


    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • Best relic for July:

    Silver thimble with some ornate designs on it

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    Best U.S. coin = 1912 V-nickel (interesting to think that this coin was minted the same year that the Titanic sunk)

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    Best foreign coin = Chinese Cash Coin ( Reign Title: Kang Hsi (1661-1722 a.d.) )

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    Best Jewelry = Gold charm

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  • TTT
    CROCK of COINS
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  • For the "Wildcard" catagory, I nominate TNTonPMS' diamond earring found outside Walmart.

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  • TTT
  • kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭
    I've got two for Best Non-U.S. Coin/Token
    1919 Canadian quarter in VF/EF shape:
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    1844 Bank of Montreal Canadian Half Penny token:
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    Best US Coin

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    Relic:

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    A quadruple silver plated lower half of a collar button holder case, patent date of April 1894, approximately 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Pictures below are of similar case found on ebay:
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  • Best Jewelry entry 18k chain link ring.
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  • Best coin entry 1858 flying eagle cent and best relic entry 1919 Chicago vehicle tax tag 35 hp or less
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  • For Best Wildcard Find: 1951-D Roosie found in a roll of dimes at work.

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    I lust for silver.
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  • phutphut Posts: 1,087
    William (30AnvZ28) has offered to do the polls this month.
    Be sure to post any final entries. I'll add some of my junque when I get home tonight.
  • phutphut Posts: 1,087
    Relics
    phut's Early 1800s Artillery button AY50 RV35
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    phut's Colonial boot buckle
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    phut's silver thing
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    phut's early colonial buckle
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    phut's 1919 silver spoon
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    US coin/token

    phut's 1851 large cent
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    phut's 1804 half cent
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    phut's 1940s Colgate Health Club token
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    phut's 1884 dime
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    Non-US coin/token

    phut's 1748 British half penny
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  • ZotZot Posts: 825 ✭✭✭
    Non-US coin:

    Zot's Finnish silver 2 markkaa 1870

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    Minelab: GPX 5000, Excalibur II, Explorer SE. White's: MXT, PI Pro
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    $15 found on the ground in Queens, NY

    One $10 bill and one $5 bill=$15
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