1000th post giveaway-results in-winners and correct answers announced

olmanjon · October 17, 2012 1:41AM

I joined this forumn in Feb of 2007. I have met many new fellow coin collectors since then and have had many questions answered through this forumn. In the spring I will be meeting in person Lord M. Since I am coming up on my 1000th post I decided to have a giveaway. Nothing fancy, but perhaps something you don't have already. Last month my daughter and son-in-law invited my wife(happily married 42 years) to join them in a cottage at Cape Cod for 4 days. Had a great time. While wondering around the Cape, I came on a coin shop. Purchased a small bag of foreign coins. The contest is as follows. There are four questions. The closest to the right answers will win a choice of three prizes. The second closest gets to pick next and the third place will receive the remaining prize.

#1-How many coins did I receive for my $20?
#2-What denomination was the largest? Extra credit for naming the country.
#3-What denomination was the smallest? Extra credit fror naming the country.
#4-What was the oldest date?
#5-How many were in the 1800's

The prizes
#1-Canadian small cents-1920-1921-1928-1929-1931-1932-1933-1934-1935-1937
#2-1944d 1/10 guilden in au from Curacao.((.0288 asw)
#3-1923 one franc from france-1928 10 rappan from switzerland-1905 ten cents from Belgium
Contest will close at midnight on October 23, 2012.

DAonlyBG won first -ICsoccer won second and Aurora Rarities won third.

The correct answers were- For my $20 I received 96 coins costing 21 cents each. The largest was a 1965 Churchill crown. The smallest was a one milliemme from egypt. The oldest was an 1883 one penny from Great Britain. This was the only 1800 coin in the lot.

icsoccer · October 17, 2012 2:32AM

Fun!
1- 80 coins
2- 10 Francs France
3 1 Pfennig Germany
4- 1888
5- 4
Thanks for the fun!

AuroraRarities · October 17, 2012 4:50AM

Congratulations on 1000 posts and most of all on 42 years of marriage!

Thanks for the contest!

1) 134
2) Germany 5 mark
3) Australia half penny
4) 1894
5) 1

daOnlyBG · October 17, 2012 11:33AM

Congratulations on your 42 years of marriage. I just joined a couple weeks ago, but perhaps our paths will cross as well someday.

#1) 125 coins
#2) 25 (Lebanese pounds)
#3) 1 (Indian Paise)
#4) 1890
#5) 2

olmanjon · October 19, 2012 3:16AM

Only three people interested in my contest? I guess I should have offered gold twenties and morgans as prizes.

Oh well. I had fun doing it anyway.
Olmanjon

daOnlyBG · October 19, 2012 3:42AM

You can still have the contest.. why not try posting this thread on the Giveaway forum? It might catch more peoples' attention. *shrug*

olmanjon · October 19, 2012 5:56AM

Thanks for the heads up. Never even thought of posting it there. It is up now. See how it works out. There is also another 1000th post there.
Olmanjon

olmanjon · October 23, 2012 12:48AM

Thirteen hours left!

daOnlyBG · October 24, 2012 12:54AM

So... any results in?

olmanjon · October 24, 2012 3:57AM

And the results are: On my part I was very disappointed in the number of particapants. I ran it for one week and only three fellow collectors entered. In order to determine a winner I gave points on a scale of one to three. Closest to the right answer received three points-second received two and third one point. There was a tie for first place. In order to break the tie I will ask one final question. The largest coin was a crown. What date was it? Icsoccer and DAonlyBg were tied for first so they get to pick the date. As soon as we have a winner I will announce it. Aurora rarities gets third place. If the three of you will pm me your addresses I will get the prizes sent out as soon as we have a winner. Thanks for participating guys. I had fun doing it even though there wasn't much response.
Olmanjon

daOnlyBG · October 24, 2012 5:20AM

Sorry so few people entered! I hope next time you'll get plenty more. Thanks again for putting it together, though, I'm really curious what the actual answers are.

Anyway, my guess for the date is 1965.

cladking · October 24, 2012 7:11AM

Wow!

Only 1000 posts. As much quality as you've posted I'd have guessed you had far more.

Congratulations on 1000 even if it might take half a century to get your title.

olmanjon · October 27, 2012 6:08AM

Winners are in the first post. Thank you for those who did play.
Olmanjon

icsoccer · November 4, 2012 12:04AM

John,
Just received my winnings. Excellent Canadian Cents. Many Thanks!
Dean / icsoccer

daOnlyBG · November 4, 2012 1:38AM

I second that. I really like the coin- I don't have anything like it, actually. Thanks again

olmanjon · November 5, 2012 5:16AM

Your quite welcome guys. Have not heard from Aurora Rarities yet so can't mail it to him. Thanks for all participating. The answers are in the first post.
Olmanjon

1000th post giveaway-results in-winners and correct answers announced

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