LordM 10th Anniversary giveaway (shipping status update in first post) UNCLAIMED PRIZES AWARDED 9/1

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2011 5:15PM

August 17th will mark my tenth anniversary on these forums.

It's been an eventful decade for me, and I've come a long way, both personally and numismatically. I've met some really fine folks here and have been the recipient of much wisdom and generosity. For that, I say thank you, Collectors Universe members.

OK, so "ten" is the obvious theme here. I really wish I could afford to give away a ten-dollar gold piece. (Shoot, I wish I had a ten-dollar gold piece right now!) Times are lean, though, as you've no doubt noticed. Very lean for me, I'm afraid, though I still have plenty of blessings to count. Even in my better times, I've never been anything but a low-budget numismatist, but that never stopped y'all from giving me more respect and kindness than I ever expected or deserved.

We'll make this simple, though I fear it's a pretty humble giveaway.

Just post ONCE here, and I'll select a winner via random number generator, on or shortly after my anniversary.

The winner will get a $10 PayPal gift payment from me. (Or, if you don't do PayPal, a coin of some kind.)

Thank you all. I wish this anniversary giveaway could have been a bit more generous, but hopefully it's the thought that counts.

(Edit- I upped the ante to TEN winners, so one person gets that ten bucks, and nine more will get... something.)

Group hug!

*** UPDATE: WINNERS CHOSEN ***

The first winner selected was jesbroken, who will get a $10 PayPal gift from me. (Gotta wait 'til my eBay auction ends, tho'.)

The remaining nine winners will get a nice handpicked BU Wheatie from one of my rolls (probably a 1944, as I have a lot of those- but they're really nice), and some kind of cheap-but-interesting world coin, and one of my wooden dollars, and two GA Lottery $1 "Lucky 7" scratchoff tickets (each with the potential to win up to $7,000.00)*. Y'all will have to wait a little while for my new supply of mailers to be delivered, so gimme a little while to package and ship all this.

*Those of you out-of-staters who win small prizes on the lotto tickets can mail 'em back to me and I'll PayPal-gift you your winnings (plus the cost of your stamp). It's a longshot, but if one of you wins more than $600, it can be redeemed directly through the state lottery itself. Hey- it could happen, right?

Our nine winners are: (Those in bold have had prizes shipped 8/26.)

rottnrog
heavymetal
MrLee
fiveNdime- won $4 in lotto!
ibzman350
Steviewah
demodigger
JJM
unknowncomic- won $4 in lotto!

As of 8/26, I haven't heard back from rottnrog, heavymetal, and Steviewah. I'll give 'em to the end of the month to speak up.

(Otherwise, somebody else is gonna get their lotto tickets and cheapo prizes!) *gasp!*

*** 9/1 UPDATE: three prizes went unclaimed. So I redrew three numbers... and those winners are...

jessewvu
GMan
RiffRaff1967

I will PM the new winners.

Congratulations, y'all. And, if I don't mind tootin' my own horn (and you know by now I don't)... to myself, for ten happy years on the forums!

Yay!!!

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2011 5:32PM

Ten bucks? Really? Geez.

OK, that's just lame of me.

Even in my stinkin' brokeassedness, I can do better than that.

Let's up the ante to make it TEN winners, randomly drawn.

At least one person will get that PayPal $10 gift. Maybe more- depends on how I do sellin' some stuff.

The remaining winners will get a coin of some sort. Maybe worth ten bucks. Maybe not. Just a modest coin.

(Edit- and maybe a GA Lottery scratchoff or two, also. Hey, if your luck wins this giveaway, maybe it will hold out with the lotto, too?)

But I reckon can make ten people winners, albeit on a small scale.

Of course you're ALL winners in my book, if you know what I mean.

ramminrick · August 3, 2011 5:33PM

I'm in. Thank you LordM.

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2011 5:36PM

ramminrick- wow- you've been here longer than I have! And still a "New Member" with 14 posts! Too funny. A man of few words, eh? That's cool- I'm always glad to lure a few lurkers out of the shadows. Hey, be sure to activate Private Messages, though, so I can notify you if you win.

Edit- I just got the test PM you sent me, but for some reason, the replies I sent you in return do not show up in our PM history, and you still don't have that little "padlock" icon

showing in your profile. Strange- I'm not sure why. You might check with the admins about that, if you didn't see my PMs.

Tdec1000 · August 3, 2011 5:41PM

LordM, count me in as well! You have been a great asset to these forums and a good person to deal with! A+++ in my book buddy! now keep that detector swingin and you might end up findin a cache of $10 Libs!

Tom

mkman123 · August 3, 2011 5:54PM

Thank you!

micmt · August 3, 2011 5:54PM

LordM I know I lurk more than respond but thought I would say congrats!

killer26 · August 3, 2011 6:43PM

Count me in!

thisnamztaken · August 3, 2011 7:33PM

Congratulations on your 10th anniversary here, Robertson!!

TavernTreasures · August 3, 2011 7:46PM

I have enjoyed reading many of your digging posts. Happy 10 year anniversary.

kingkoin56 · August 3, 2011 7:47PM

thanks LordM

Mar327 · August 3, 2011 8:20PM

Congrats on a decade, LordM! You're a gem!

Andres · August 3, 2011 8:27PM

Congrats, LordM

rather have a modest coin, then the $10 , and if you send me a coin , I send you a coin in return

Zohar · August 3, 2011 8:43PM

Thanks!

JJM · August 3, 2011 9:06PM

im game, thx

johnsim03 · August 3, 2011 9:22PM

Congratulations, Rob! Many happy returns!
John

ibzman350 · August 3, 2011 9:27PM

thanks for the chance Rob...........................I still have the folder of world coins I bought from you when I first got here, like 8 or 9 plastic pages.

I also decided to buy a metal detector, thinking my little beach hide-a-way would be an ideal place to find treasures.

Well the metal detecting thinggy didn't work out too well. For the first test I threw a nickle in the sand, I almost lost the nickle, it took me 5 minutes to find it. I played around with it for a week or so on the beach after that, it's been in the closet now for years. I may just have to pull it out and give it another try.

Herb

ricko · August 3, 2011 9:29PM

Congratulations LordM....yep... the years do fly by. I enjoy your postings as well as the many unique finds you have made. Look forward to more of the same in the next ten years..... Cheers, RickO

Coins911 · August 3, 2011 9:47PM

I'm in

Staircoins · August 3, 2011 9:50PM

Many, many, very hearty congratulations LM!

Thanks for all the effort that you have put into the boards over the past decade. We are all better off as a result.

Please forward my prize to a deserving YN if I win.

keyman64 · August 3, 2011 10:35PM

Congrats and thank you Sir!

cheezhed · August 3, 2011 10:44PM

ONCE

MaineJim · August 3, 2011 10:47PM

Cheers LordM - enjoy reading your post also.

Jim

blue594 · August 3, 2011 10:52PM

Congrats on the anniversary. I have enjoyed your posts and pictures. For example, the description and pics of your antique mall operation. The Yap stone hunt. All the Holeys. Always enjoyable and interesting reading. I really like the personal touch to your stories. I have actually read and loved all your dig writeups. I have never put the "coil to the soil", but hopefully someday. I also have to get a large shark tooth (megalodon maybe) for my daughter. She thought that was the coolest. We probably never would have known about them if not for you.
Thanks again.

John

llafoe · August 3, 2011 11:01PM

I wish I were 10 again!

Coinerww2 · August 3, 2011 11:07PM

Hi there!
Thanks for the chance...if I remember correctly, I won one of your giveaways like 6 years ago. School consumed most of my time but now I'm back and Aug is a special time for me too. The day before your tenth anniversary is my 21st

. Is it ok to put those fancy awards you made in my sig again for the metal detecting competition?

Thanks for the chance!
Warner

jesbroken · August 3, 2011 11:12PM

It definitely is "the thought that counts". I thank you for the 10 years you have given this forum and hope many more are to come.
Jim

laserart · August 3, 2011 11:34PM

45K + posts and 10 years ! That's exceptional.

pontiacinf · August 3, 2011 11:39PM

woot there he is!

been a long ten years, hey werent you on the old board with me?

blueifalcon · August 3, 2011 11:40PM

Congrats on the Decade...

ModCrewman · August 3, 2011 11:42PM

Sure, put me in the running.

lordmarcovan · August 4, 2011 12:00AM

<< <i>been a long ten years, hey werent you on the old board with me? >>

Bill- I don't remember these "old boards" that some of you true dinosaurs have mentioned, but I do remember the old small-icon days, the Open Forum, and other bygones. I remember you and cosmicdebris and - oh, hey- there's laserart, too - from the early days. I went to the "Today" page just now and was looking at the Top Ten member list (by post count). I still haven't made it- I must surely be in the top fifteen or twenty, though. It was interesting and a bit sad to note that some of those folks ain't with us anymore, and in fact two of 'em have gone beyond this earthly realm.

Thank you all for the kind words. Maybe more people have read my blather than I realized. (That's both flattering and unnerving- hopefully they read mostly the intelligent posts and missed the stupid stuff!) Speakin' of the Old School, I've noticed that ricko has always had a positive comment for me, and those have been greatly appreciated, especially when I was feelin' down on myself.

Thanks again, y'all.