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  droopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭

  March 28, 2009 5:54AM

  Generally, you would need to provide verifiable proof of age before being awarded any substantial prize. Most such contests require you to be at least 18 to be eligible. If there were a contest limited to youth, proof of age would also be required of the winner and the parents/legal guardians would likely also need to be vetted.

  Me at the Springfield coin show:
  
  60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!

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  VirtualWon Posts: 370

  March 28, 2009 7:01AM

  Yeah if it were from a big company located in a town true.
  
  What if someone on the forum offered something like that...say a modern $5 gold eagle graded 69-70?
  
  After all let's face it how many kids would have a gold coin...unless it was willed to them or they won it.
  
  

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  illini420 Posts: 11,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 28, 2009 7:05AM

  I have several "YNs" enter my recent giveaway where I gave each of them a better chance at winning... I hope they were all honest, but I didn't verify ages, not sure how I would do that anyways. I do know for sure that the winner is a real YN though so I'm not worried about it.
  
  Let me know where the giveaways of gold, cars and large sums of cash begin
  
  

  Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 700

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  ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭

  March 28, 2009 8:22AM

  
  
  << <i>I have several "YNs" enter my recent giveaway where I gave each of them a better chance at winning... I hope they were all honest, but I didn't verify ages, not sure how I would do that anyways. I do know for sure that the winner is a real YN though so I'm not worried about it. >>
  
  This is why I don't personally use age as a criterion in my giveaways. Not only is there a potential "lying factor," but I don't necessarily think a 15-year-old child of a neurologist is more "deserving" of winning than an adult of modest means.
  

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  lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  March 28, 2009 8:48AM

  Maybe you could clarify what you're concerned about VirtualWon.
  I am a 64 year old man, with a 5 year old boy.
  I'm taking him to coin shows and coin club meetings and he's starting to like coin collecting. It gives us something to do together.
  He's just learning to make his letters and can't read so obviously he can't post here.
  I've entered him in some YN giveaways here on the forums, and some members here have been kind enough to send him coins.
  He loves getting mail that is addressed to him, and finding coins in his mail is very exciting for him.
  Do you think I'm a scammer?
  Are you saying the YN winner of the 1909-S Lincoln Cent here on the forum is really an adult?
  Whatever your accusations are, why not be specific?
  
  Ray
  

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