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ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: JANUARY, 2008 "QUALITY" AWARDS (Best Coin/Jewelry/Relic/Wildcard

lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two of my finds, so far, found on January 10th.

    For Wildcard category:

    Tiny prehistoric fossil shark tooth.

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    For Best US Coin/Token:

    1914 Knights of Pythias Golden Jubilee medal.

    (I count medals like this in with the "token" category, unless they have a loop or attachment on them, making them a fob, in which case I would go Relic category with them. If they're sufficiently coinlike, I put them in my dug coins album. Whoever makes the polls at the end of the month can decide whether this should be under US Coin/Token or Relic, as they see fit).


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    Found 1/27.:

    For US Coin category- 1917 Mercury dime.

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    For Relic/Other category-ca. 1930s-1940s lead toy Indian.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nominated for Best Jewelry Item: Riccar's 14K gold child's ring.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll nominate some of Zot's things from a recent hunt.

    For Non-US Coin category:

    1872 Finland silver 50-penniä coin. (Scarcer date, only 200,000 minted).

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    1939 Netherlands silver 10-cent coin.

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    1913 Finland silver 25-penniä coin.

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  • ASUtoddASUtodd Posts: 1,312 ✭✭
    My finds for Relic are my Civial War Musket Ball and the clasp/holder with the lion, shield, and crown on it. Here are the pictures.
    Todd
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    (ASUtodd was posting his own stuff while I was in the process of nominating it for him!)

    Everybody else, c'mon... post your better January finds!

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  • ASUtoddASUtodd Posts: 1,312 ✭✭
    I have two US coin entries. The first is my 1899 Indian Head:
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    Second is my first SILVER COIN!!!!! 1964 D Roosevelt (Nothing special to you guys but it is my FIRST SILVER!!!)

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  • ZotZot Posts: 825 ✭✭✭
    Thanks LM. Here's one more:

    Non-US coin
    Zot's silver Finnish 1 Markka 1890
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How'd I miss that one, Zot? Different hunt?


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  • ZotZot Posts: 825 ✭✭✭
    LM - actually that 25 öre coin is 0.600 silver.
    I see that I lumped it in with the billion coin discussion in my earlier post. I always make this same mistake....
    I forget that this type was 0.600 silver, but when I read it in your post it rang a bell... image

    I found it last year though, so it's not eligible for the January polls
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh, thanks. Sorry, wasn't reading. It was a part of your later discussion of them.

    And obviously I wasn't crosschecking it with Krause open, so the wrong bullion stats flew past me.

    We'll take that one out.

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  • For Relic - my Royal East Kent Regiment uniform button (pre 1912). Found January 1st in a Tucson, AZ park.

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  • please enter my "honkin" 33 1/2 inch, 5 oz, .925 silver chain for best jewelry

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    "see ya at the beach"
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dubba- give us the length on that "honker", again? I'm pretty sure I remember you sayin' it was Sterling silver (.925). That's a big 'un, for sure!

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  • ASUtoddASUtodd Posts: 1,312 ✭✭
    Guess I'll throw the old Play Nickel in for the Coin/Token category. Here is the pic
    Todd
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  • best jewelry.....20k ring w/pearl

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    "see ya at the beach"
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  • ASUtoddASUtodd Posts: 1,312 ✭✭
    My entry for the "Wildcard" find is my green action figure!
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  • best jewelry for january...18k gold band

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    "see ya at the beach"
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  • Wildcard entry with a set of Tiffany & Company 1837 sterling hoop earrings. Found in a hallway at work and later returned to there owner.

    You can view thwm at the Tiffany & Co. website here.
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  • I'll be posting the polls Saturday.
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