Time for a giveaway... just... because (winner... ZOHAR!)

lordmarcovan · August 23, 2012 9:52AM

Just post once here to win a "surprise package" of inexpensive Darkside coins. This will include some Bahamian proofs from the 1970s, as I found a bunch of those in a recent bulk bag buy. The others will likely come from the same bulk bag. It will be a modest giveaway, but I'll make it interesting, and will likely throw in something non-numismatic like a fossil shark tooth or two. Who knows what. The fun for me will be figuring out what to toss in there.

I'll draw a winner sometime around the end of the month.

Pokermandude · August 23, 2012 9:57AM

IMO, you aren't a true collector if you don't enjoy the prospect of finding or getting more random/unknown stuff into your possession!

Count me in, and thanks

Pokermandude · August 23, 2012 9:59AM

Also, what is with these forums? I posted after ajaan, yet my post appears first, with a time stamp of 2 minutes before his post...

ajaan · August 23, 2012 9:59AM

Nice giveaway, please don't include me.

lordmarcovan · August 23, 2012 10:23AM

<< Also, what is with these forums? I posted after ajaan, yet my post appears first, with a time stamp of 2 minutes before his post... >>

Yes, the time sequence of posts has gotten all hinky. Just like the preview function and my Upload Box. Random features of the site are succumbing to obsolescence vis-a-vis the newer browsers, I guess, and falling of with rusty "clanks" here and there. It's been a gradual decline. I noticed the recent screwy sequence thing has now crept into my PM history.

I just hope the whole thing doesn't come crashing down soon, and there's a patch of some sort that our kind sponsors can install.

Otherwise, I guess I'll see y'all Across The Street.

tewcd · August 23, 2012 10:45AM

Ooh, my Darkside collection is declining, which means I must acquire more! Count me in!

baddspellar · August 23, 2012 11:08AM

Cool!
Thanks for the chance

BillyKingsley · August 23, 2012 11:44AM

I'll take a shot...what have I got to lose?

Aethelred · August 23, 2012 11:49AM

PLEASE DON'T INCLUDE ME IN THE GIVEAWAY.

Sounds like a nice batch of goods, bulk coins are always fun!

I need to do another giveaway!!

ajaan · August 23, 2012 11:57AM

<< I need to do another giveaway!! >>

How about a telescope giveaway?

olmanjon · August 23, 2012 12:02PM

When Lord M gives something away--I just have to get in line. Thanks Lord M. I'm glad to see you very active on the boards again.
Olmanjon

Aethelred · August 23, 2012 12:04PM

<< 

<< I need to do another giveaway!! >>

How about a telescope giveaway? >>

Nope, I am keeping those! One of these days I will discover a comet that will bear my name...for the six months or so before it destroys the earth!

ajaan · August 23, 2012 12:11PM

<< Nope, I am keeping those! One of these days I will discover a comet that will bear my name >>

A comet is a frozen ball of dirty space ice. How are you going to write your name on that? Spray paint?

lordmarcovan · August 23, 2012 12:12PM

<< PLEASE DON'T INCLUDE ME IN THE GIVEAWAY.

Sounds like a nice batch of goods, bulk coins are always fun!

I need to do another giveaway!! >>

That would be hilarious, now, wouldn't it, Dear Dead King, considering 90% of the coins you'd win came from you in the first place!

Aethelred · August 23, 2012 12:19PM

Hey Ajaan, this is just like the old days, you and I hijacking one of LordM's threads!

ajaan · August 23, 2012 12:20PM

Who me??? Hijack a thread? Rumors, rumors.

Jinx86 · August 23, 2012 1:24PM

Just because....my favorite type of giveaway.

Zohar · August 23, 2012 1:35PM

Thank you sir!

Andres · August 23, 2012 5:19PM

Count me in, Rob
I'll have another Koban waiting for you

lordmarcovan · August 23, 2012 7:58PM

<< Count me in, Rob
I'll have another Koban waiting for you

>>

Make it a real one this time, would you?

LochNESS · August 23, 2012 9:35PM

I always wanted a shark tooth

dare I say ... wrong forum? *running to hide lest I get banned or whipped*

DeiGratia · August 24, 2012 1:40AM

I'll bite.

Thanks

12voltman · August 29, 2012 12:00PM

How can I resist the chance at something random? Thanks for the opportunity.

OldEastside · August 29, 2012 12:40PM

Thanks Rob

Steve

Dennis88 · August 29, 2012 2:23PM

Thanks for the chance

mnemtsas2 · August 29, 2012 9:53PM

I am only posting in the hope of getting a shark tooth for my son. If I happen to win please keep the coins and just send the tooth

marcmoish · August 29, 2012 10:15PM

I'm in but strickly chanced for benefit of Aethelred.

lordmarcovan · August 29, 2012 11:18PM

A couple of folks have expressed an interest in a fossil shark tooth, so I'll be sure to put at least one nice one in there, and maybe a couple of smaller ones. I just bought a big batch from a local buddy who finds them up the road from me. Very close to where I live, actually. My daughter and I have found a few ourselves.

LochNESS · August 30, 2012 9:03PM

Really, in salt-water marsh land? I've been to Jeckyl, Tybee, Sea and a few other islands out there (and Savannah of course) but never found any teeth

You lords have all the luck!

lordmarcovan · August 31, 2012 7:21AM

OK, let's give it 'til midnight Eastern tonight, and then I'll pick a winner.

I have put together a very nice assortment of fossils for this giveaway.

The coin portion of it I have not selected yet, but will likely be much more random and a bit more mundane. Expect some Bahamian proof coins, of course.

Anybody else want in before the bell rings?

lordmarcovan · August 31, 2012 7:28AM

<< Really, in salt-water marsh land? I've been to Jeckyl, Tybee, Sea and a few other islands out there (and Savannah of course) but never found any teeth

You lords have all the luck!

>>

Oh, hey, Nessie. It's all in where you look. Location, location, location.

You have to find the places where they dump the dredge spoil sand. Out here in the rural western part of Glynn County, where many of the roads are still sand, they use dredge spoil to resurface them, so all one has to do is walk the dirt roads after a rain, with a sharp eye.

It was raining yesterday and I thought some fossil whalebone pieces would round out this fossil lot and some others I am putting together, so yesterday I went to a place I knew I could just pick some up without any hard searching. There is a boat ramp by the Turtle River, just a few hundred yards away from where I live, and its dirt parking area is surfaced with dredge sand. It was raining lightly at the time. I stepped right out of the truck, and pow, there was an Isurus hastalis- extinct Mako shark tooth, lyin' there all pretty, perfectly exposed. And within three minutes I had seven pieces of whalebone. I put one of those and the Mako tooth into this giveaway lot, so somebody is about to win my finds from yesterday.

Look me up if you're ever in this neck o' the woods again. I'll take you to some spots where I can practically guarantee you'll find a fossil or two.

gummibear · August 31, 2012 8:34AM

Hi Robert,

Count me in.

Thanks,
Richard

Jinx86 · August 31, 2012 9:36AM

Dont find fossil shark teeth here in ND, have found fossil horse and buffalo teeth though. Even some arrow heads after plowing fields.

lordmarcovan · August 31, 2012 11:27PM

Zohar wins!

Zohar · September 1, 2012 12:32AM

Oh My Lord!

What a nice way to start the day. Thank you very much.

OldEastside · September 1, 2012 7:19AM

Congrats Zohar

Steve

Dabigkahuna · September 1, 2012 10:55AM

Thanks! Count me in.

Andres · September 1, 2012 8:58PM

congrats, Zohar, and please show use your new teeth

maybe a beginning of a whole new collection ?

Zohar · September 7, 2012 12:20PM

Package recieved - what a generous assortment - thank you so much. Will take a few pictures tomorrow!

Zohar · September 8, 2012 5:58AM

So here are the fossils Rob was very kind to send over:

lordmarcovan · September 9, 2012 8:45AM

I found that whalebone fragment myself, just a stone's throw from here.

Andres · September 26, 2012 8:35AM

I was just reading this thread (again) and I'm a bit disappointed the pics from Zohar's new teeth were already gone

I found this big one, in the dredge spoils on eBay:

Zohar · September 26, 2012 10:21AM

Actually here they are.

Swampboy · September 26, 2012 2:10PM

Wow.
A mini natural history museum.

Time for a giveaway... just... because (winner... ZOHAR!)

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