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

BentFork

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.

bigtime36

Wild card find:

2001 $1 star note

marym

Wow, I thought you found that vehicle!! lol

CROCKofCOINS

Best Jewelry

14K Tri Color Gold



Jerry

DUBBA

here's my entry for best jewelry for november....14k jesus on the cross/anchor....hh

Riccar

my best U.S. coins for November:

1917-S Dime

SilverDreams

For Wildcard: 1957A Star Note Silver Certificate.

Found 11/12 at work while counting down a register.

BentFork

ttt

bigtime36

Another wildcard find... Searching my ones while at the "club" last night...

1999 Star Note



Jim

kevinstang

<< <i>2001 $1 star note >>



Ah! Got you beat, got this in change from store today after picking up some beer....



2001 $10 star note

SilverDreams

Man I didn't know the star notes would be such a popular item this month. I find a lot at work but can't buy them all out cause I'd go poor saving them.

bigtime36

well, maybe we can get a Most Star Notes for the Month Award.....hehe

Jim

SilverDreams

Haha, I might could win that one since I work in retail and I'm a manager. I get to go through all of the money the store has during the day. I haven't really looked hard in a few weeks, but for one whole week I looked at every single bill and my total star notes for that one week was 2 Twenties, 2 Tens, 4 Fives and around 6 Ones I believe. I still see them occasionally and just pass them up. From what I hear they aren't worth too much unless it's a low serial number or interesting one.

ChicagoRon

Well there calling for snow in the morning so I might be done for a while.
Heres my entries for Nov so far.

For Jewlery 18K white gold LOVE 11-11-07 15.6 dwt


and Womans Designer platinum wedding band 11-3-07 5.2 dwt


For us coin 1900 o Barber Quarter 11-07-07


and 1918D St Lib Quarter vg-f 11-17-07



Good luck all!

Chicago Ron

BentFork

For Relic/Other -
Silver plated baby's spoon found at a house demo November 16. The house was built 1920-1930



G. Man

lordmarcovan

Silverdreams, your star note is a Silver Certificate. That trumps the others, I think.

kevinstang

Would this be a legit wildcard find, found this 1921 full date standing lib in a group of quarters I bought off of ebay for just over melt value, coins were supposed to be mostly dateless and found during a porch construction:

According to Jan 2008 Coin Prices it lists for $450 in Fine and $625 in VF.

Link to post over on the coin forum with all the details

I wonder what else could have been hidden under that porch! Anyone know where Endicott is?

Dockwalliper

Nice score.

Endiott New York is in south central NY, near Binghamton.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Endicott,+NY,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

demodigger

for the US coin entry:
the 2 barber quarters dug in same hole

crispy

Non-US Coin/Token: 1875 1 Ore (Danish) The fuzzy detail shot was an attempt to show the 1875 date.

crispy

Non-US Coin/Token: A Venetian ducat copy (dates probably to the mid to late 19th century). The one I found this year is the smaller one. The larger one was found exactly one year before it at the same site. These are NOT made of gold but rather bronze.

crispy

Best US Coin/Token (found same day, different hole):

BentFork

ttt

loditom

My 2-piece Dragoons button for best relic



HH,Tom