FREE GIVEAWAY CONTEST - winner picked
Insider2
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Time for another silly contest. Oh, my...
**Guess what coin I'm going to buy this weekend! ** Hint, it's round. LOL I warned you it was one of "those" contests! 
Contest ends Monday at 12 Midnight.
Drawing Tuesday. Anyone posting in this thread is entered.
Prize: 20th Century counterfeit (NOT MODERN CHINESE FAKE) Walking Liberty Half dollar (date, method of manufacture, and composition my choice***).
*** Better fake given to any poster who is FIRST to post JUST ONE characteristic found on any cast or struck counterfeit coin. Note: Any one of you counterfeit experts that posts more than one diagnostic and you are disqualified from this and any future contests I have.
Example of a post:
@XXXX enter me.
Example of a post that qualifies for "better" counterfeit:
@YYYY enter me. Tool mark. (note this can be used as an entry 
)
Have fun! 
Winner notified Tuesday and coin mailed next week.
Comments
@JBK enter me. Mushy details.
(Did I do the the entry correctly? I was thrown off by the @XXXX and @YYYY).
Thx!
@ldhair enter me. Tool mark.
@ricko enter me. Incorrect weight. Cheers, RickO
@HiBucky enter me... magnetic
Enter me, wrong reverse.
bob
If I get lucky, give it to someone that collects fakes (I don't), your choice
@messydesk Enter me. Struck with a big, fat bag mark copied from the real coin.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Have no idea, but would guess a round silver coin.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
If I asked what I will be buying this weekend, My hint would be, It is NOT round .....
So far all of you are entered!
Enter me, weird looking funky eagle on reverse.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
Enter me. From the looks of my 1967 lead quarter I would say a "Mushy/Soft Strike".
@ Fastfreddie, Enter me. Disproportionate device characteristics.
@sellitstore , please enter me into the contest. Wrong Composition: Foil-wrapped chocolate.
@coin4sale please me in contest. microscopic raised bumps or pimples on the surface of the coin from casting.
Funky surfaces often with bubbles but also grainy at times
may I get lucky this time. Thank you for the contest.
I'm confused...I thought we were to guess the coin you were going to buy. I'll guess a 1907 high relief $20g.
"Better fake given to any poster who is FIRST to post JUST ONE characteristic found on any cast or struck counterfeit coin."
Bubbled surfaces?
Lance.
@mannie gray
Enter me.
You're buying a frisbee.
Won't pass ring test.
@ParlousJoe enter me. Tool Mark
Has Omega mark
You don't have to enter me, I just thought that was funny...and that no one said it yet
@erwindoc Electrotype
You're going to buy a silver eagle
Enter me, missing or incorrect reed count.
a double die enter me
@Onastone enter me. Poor edge reeding.
The first part of my post is a sarcastic
"spoof." I'm a serious curmudgeon who is not "cut out" for the enjoyment and camaraderie provided on many forums. Therefore, a fun post such as "Guess what I'm going to buy" or "Guess what I finally bought" makes me ill! Who the heck cares? Post your new little treasure and let's GTG or write about it. It is a personal thing and just as a very bad book, I don't need to read it!
Counterfeits come in all degrees of deception. The great ones may even get slabbed as genuine - for a while. While the dreck - that should not fool an experienced professional numismatist - get discussed for pages on an internet forum. This is not a put-down of anyone. We ALL start somewhere. I'm one of those who is still learning. For the contest, a member how shows they have a little knowledge will get a better-executed fake. Someone that does not, may just get an example I collected in the 1950's that was probably made in the 1930's - 40's. Both coins in the giveaway are interesting. > @coin4sale said:
@coin4sale please me in contest. microscopic raised bumps or pimples on the surface of the coin from casting.
Be careful on this one as genuine coins often have raised bumps and pimples. I cannot count the times a dealer has shown me a genuine coin with pimples and bumps claiming it was a fake!
enter me please. altered mint mark,
@Stuart thanks for entering me in your contest.
Incorrect Metal Content/Purity.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Enter me... seller wears sunglasses at night!
The loop of the R in Pluribus loops back and the large mintmark on the reverse is missing.
a coin........
@tommy44 incorrect weight.
You're buying a pizza
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
@Testoon2 Enter me!
Lack of fine detail
@Insider2 enter me. Tires. Repeating depressions.
I hope I entered correctly.
Choice Numismatics www.ChoiceCoin.com
CN eBay
All of my collection is in a safe deposit box!
double stamped mint mark?
I see flabby strike! Thanks, insider2!
You are entered but this is not a characteristic of a counterfeit.
Part of the surface is rough due to tooling on crevices edge
@Parlousjoe enter me - Diameter size
@mvs7 enter me - small raised bubbles caused by the casting process.
@air4mdc enter me - raised dots near rim
@3keepSECRETif2rDEAD enter the sandman...The Omega mark
@Treashunt
Enter me.
Thanks.
Diagnostic: No mintmark over dome on Jefferson war nickel
BHNC #203
I give it a try -
Wrong reverse
Jim
Rather than using names, I numbered each individual post (first post, and only one from each of you) . Then had the folks in the office pick a number between 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, all the way up... Then I put each number they picked(the finalists) on a slip of paper on a plate and let someone pick the winning number.
The Winner picked: Air4mdc PM me with your address.
I wish I could give away more of these but I collect them and they are like my children....LOL.