Milestone giveaway. Congratulations Muygrandeoso!!!
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Hi folks.
While doing some updates, I noticed that my NGC Custom Set 8 Reales Madness reached a pretty nice milestone - over 15,000 views in 3.5 years. Thank you all who added to the view count over the years! My goal is to give Zohar a run for his money in the upcoming registy awards for the best Darkside Signature Set and hopefully, with your help, tip the scales in my favor (evil laugh) while giving away some large crusty silver in the process.
Here's what I'm proposing...
I will select a random winner from all the replies that qualify for the draw and send him / her the following:
Nice scarce and crusty 1827 Guanajuato 8 Reales in an NGC XF40 plastic:
And a 2-3 raw circulated (but most likely toned and with a high coolness factor) other 8 Reales coins of my choosing.
Here are 2 that I've picked to throw-in:
In order to qualify:
1. Check out my set ATS: 8 Reales Madness and a few examples of winning sets from previous years, like Zohar's Holy Roman Empire - House of Habsburg Talers., or Eagle1's The Challenger Collection - Mexican Gold, 50 Pesos , or a more recent winner - Dash Elezi's The Elezi Family Collection, or just look at my set with your own critical eye and provide at least 1 suggestion on what I can do to improve it.
Any suggestions are welcomed! You can comment on anything from the layout of the set itself, description, composition, order, theme, etc...
2. Post your suggestion in this thread.
BINGO! You're entered to win a nice chunk of colonial change
I will use my trusty random number generator to select the winner on the 1st of November.
Good Luck!!!
While doing some updates, I noticed that my NGC Custom Set 8 Reales Madness reached a pretty nice milestone - over 15,000 views in 3.5 years. Thank you all who added to the view count over the years! My goal is to give Zohar a run for his money in the upcoming registy awards for the best Darkside Signature Set and hopefully, with your help, tip the scales in my favor (evil laugh) while giving away some large crusty silver in the process.
Here's what I'm proposing...
I will select a random winner from all the replies that qualify for the draw and send him / her the following:
Nice scarce and crusty 1827 Guanajuato 8 Reales in an NGC XF40 plastic:
And a 2-3 raw circulated (but most likely toned and with a high coolness factor) other 8 Reales coins of my choosing.
Here are 2 that I've picked to throw-in:
In order to qualify:
1. Check out my set ATS: 8 Reales Madness and a few examples of winning sets from previous years, like Zohar's Holy Roman Empire - House of Habsburg Talers., or Eagle1's The Challenger Collection - Mexican Gold, 50 Pesos , or a more recent winner - Dash Elezi's The Elezi Family Collection, or just look at my set with your own critical eye and provide at least 1 suggestion on what I can do to improve it.
Any suggestions are welcomed! You can comment on anything from the layout of the set itself, description, composition, order, theme, etc...
2. Post your suggestion in this thread.
BINGO! You're entered to win a nice chunk of colonial change
I will use my trusty random number generator to select the winner on the 1st of November.
Good Luck!!!
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So, if you're suffering from creative block and want an easy contest entry, you can just tell me what you think about this idea
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I do have my Swiss Shooting Medal Set up there and hopefully it gets recognition as well !
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<< <i>My set is out of the race (won in 2009) so I am rooting for ya!
I do have my Swiss Shooting Medal Set up there and hopefully it gets recognition as well ! >>
Thanks, Z! I didn't realize you can only receive 1 of those in the lifetime of the set.
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I suggest more backstory....Why collect coins..Why Mexico.Why 8 Reales...I am always interested in the whys of collecting
Good Luck
Muygrandeoso
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Thank you for the suggestion, Muygrandeoso, and good luck!
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<< <i>BTW - I really think the competition may come from Brent's set - German State Sede Vacante Talers and Medals >>
I love looking at his Talers and medals and all for some good healthy competition If not this year, I'll have a whole year to work on improving it.
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P.S: Great give-away items, Thanks!
Thanks for the give away. I have been admiring your coins ATS for the year I have been a member over there.
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I think it would be nice/logic to start your collection with at least one Mexico 8 reale of the first Bourbon ruler, namely King Philips the V (1700-1746)
just my 2cents
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<< <i>Roman how did you insert those images in the description - thats pretty neat! >>
Z, I noticed that the description field accepts HTML tags. I inserted the thumbnail images by using the following HTML code:
<center>
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/romamart/image06181.gif" width="93" height="100"/>
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/romamart/twokopcrest2.gif" width="100" height="100" />
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/romamart/ACF2B7.gif" width="100" height="100" />
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/romamart/hook_final.gif" width="100" height="100" />
</center>
<p>
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Don
<< <i>I like the pictograph image in the Holy Roman Empire set which does a better job I think of providing some insight into the history of the set. I like your images but I think this is something you could do to better display the set right off the bat >>
Haha, Zohar is a quick learner
Thank you for a suggestion!
P.S. Z, you should center the images. Just use the <center> tag before and </center> tag after the image tags.
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<< <i>Make all the backgrounds the same color. I like black myself. >>
I was thinking about that, Don. After playing a bit with different backgrounds, I'm not convinced that black would work with dark crusty toners. I happen to have quite a few of those. Alternatively, I can make all images uniform size and have a custom background (but not completely black).
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<< <i>I would reccomend getting that awesome set professionaly photographed at some point Thanks for teh giveaway chance. >>
Thank you for the suggestion! I've been trying to get those coins professionally photographed ever since I got a camera all those years ago
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<< <i>And just to give you an example, I was thinking of expanding the description of the set to include a short history of each mint represented within the set itself. I noticed that the description field accepts some basic HTML, so I might even be able to add some images of the mints and have it nicely formatted.
So, if you're suffering from creative block and want an easy contest entry, you can just tell me what you think about this idea >>
I think it's a GREAT idea!
Actually, I want to see your owner comments in the table and ending up making a bunch of individual clicks to see what they were, so I think you should get rid of the "more" click if possible. My .o2
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In addition to mint history, would you be able to show a small scale map showing where the mints were located, using something like
Google Static Maps, and to show an example of the mintmark from that mint?
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Regarding your final comments, specifically "… Mexico's version of the 8 Reales (and later the Peso) … remained a popular coin in the Far East throughout the nineteenth century", I would add, "… so much so, that the United States in 1903 minted Pesos, rather than Dollars, for their new possession of the Philippine Islands, which they took from Spain in 1898 as a result of the Spanish-American War". Of course though, I'm a tad biased.
I love your introductory write-up, but I would suggest you seek to duplicate your efforts on PCGS's site, since viewing the coins via a pop-up window, accessed by clicking on thumbnail images of the coins, while staying on the same page is a much more pleasant experience, in my opinion.
Steve
Steve, I don't think your comment is biased at all
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My comments--
I had to look up "immediate forebear" as it made me think of forbear (which has a different connotation) and somehow my brain wanted to see written as forebearer, which is apparently the rarer variant of the word. Great word and made me look stuff up!
For an ease-of-reading for my eyes anyway, I might consider breaking up the first paragraph--leaving the introductory sentence as a stand alone, and start the second paragraph/break with the second sentence. Not exactly proper paragraph structuring as I learned in school, but on the internet it seems to help the eyes in breaking things up.
Really fun to look at and read about!
Cathy
PS, this is REALLY a lot of fun to read about now that I've moved--I went to Gibraltar a couple weeks ago and saw where one side of the 'pillars of Hercules' stood. Last time I'd seen the Rock of Gibraltar was in 1994 or so when passing by on an aircraft carrier...it was foggy and hard to see that time.
Also like the use of the word 'crusty' to descibe some of these, wonderful coins, but unique in how they look compared to most other coins.
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Thanks,
Richard
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I noticed you had some TrueViews chopped in half because of the way NGC does obverse and reverse in separate images. I've always preferred a merged image with both obverse and reverse in the same picture. If you did it that way, like the TrueViews and some of the images you've posted here, then you could use the first picture (what NGC assigns to the "obverse") as a place for the merged obverse-reverse, and the second picture (what NGC assigns to the "reverse") as a place to put a merged picture of the front and back of the slab itself.
Then again, perhaps merged images wouldn't display the way you like- I dunno.
I've tried this with my humble Custom Set, which admittedly is still in rough draft stage and in need of some updating. (Hey, you've just inspired me to do that). I am still finding the NGC Registry interface confusing and a bit user-unfriendly. I suppose it gets better with familiarity.
Great set. Congratulations.
Congratulations, Muygrandeoso!!!! I will PM you for your address shortly.
Thank you all for providing comments and suggestions. I will bump this post once I had time to incorporate some of the changes around the end of November.
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Roman, thou art as ever a most generous soul.
<< <i>Conga-rats, MG!
Roman, thou art as ever a most generous soul. >>
Thanks for the Conga Rats....And many many thanks to Roman for his generosity!!
Chris/Muygrandeoso
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Next, congratulations to Muygrandeoso!! Enjoy those coins as much as the prior owner has.