[CLOSED] LordM Giveaway, April, 2018

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  1. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    No, don't ever clean that crustiness! That's dirty in the right way!

    Who is/was the Dirty Gold Guy over on CU? RYK, I think.
     
    lordmarcovan, Apr 28, 2018
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  3. ldhair

    ldhair Clean Supporter

    That sounds right. Too many fun years for me to keep it all straight. I remember Bill Jones had some great gold pieces.
     
    ldhair, Apr 28, 2018
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  4. Maxfli

    Maxfli Well-Known Member

    I'm very, very late to this thread, but I wanted to tell @Randy Abercrombie how much I enjoyed this story. Your mom sounds like a wonderful woman and a terrific parent and role model, and you're a good son. I'm sure the mother's day gift is going to be a huge hit. Of all people, she knows how much that coin has meant to you.

    Alas, I have no interesting story to tell. The only gold coins I own are a handful of 1-ounce American gold eagles. They're in my SDB at the bank and I don't remember the dates or exactly when I purchased them (I'm thinking mid to late 90s maybe?), but I do know it was when gold was just $275/ounce, so at least they've been a good investment.
     
    Maxfli, Apr 28, 2018
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  5. Craigescape

    Craigescape Member

    Entry post

    I have never owned a good coin so no neat story to tell
     
    Craigescape, Apr 28, 2018
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  6. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    Entry post:

    My very first gold coin was obtained in about 1973.

    I was a teller in a bank at the time and one Friday evening I was proving up when the head teller, who used to fight me for silver coins, that I accumulated in my drawer but could never afford to keep any, since I earned a massive $75.00 a week [gross!].

    Anyway, she came over & said" I don't want this, do you?" and handed me a $5 Liberty gold coin.

    I figured even if it was fake there had to be $5 of gold in it. So I flipped her a $5 bill from my drawer.

    A couple of weeks later I managed to see it for about $37.50, to a coin dealer. I had to sell it, I was hungry.

    :)
     
    Treashunt, Apr 30, 2018
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  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    In a rare moment of perfect timing, I just got the little Indian gold coin in the mail. Have not opened it yet. I will bring it to work so I can do that when I do the drawing, sometime in the wee hours of Tuesday morning if it is not too busy a night. (I am a hotel night auditor by trade, and do most of my online coin stuff literally in the middle of the night, after my work-related chores are done.)

    So I'll post pix of the actual coin received when I announce the winners. Hope it isn't a featureless blob. It's gonna be extremely tiny and very crude - we already know that - but hopefully it'll have some kind of "design" to it.
     
    lordmarcovan, Apr 30, 2018
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  8. Mountain Man

    Mountain Man Well-Known Member

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    My first gold coin was a 2010 $5 Gold Eagle, 1/10th oz. It was an introductory offer from one of the gold investment firms. I love the look and will probably keep it until I leave this mortal coil.
     
    Mountain Man, Apr 30, 2018
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  9. Milesofwho

    Milesofwho Omnivorous collector

    With any luck we’ll figure out what the other things are.
     
    Milesofwho, Apr 30, 2018
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  10. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    They were presented to me as being struck by the Amirs of Sindh. That attribution seems plausible enough to me until proven otherwise. (But I really don't know.)

    That's why I put a disclaimer on the flip inserts.

    20180424_205540.jpg CollageMaker_20180424_205512629.jpg

    (Pix borrowed from @Justin Lee, who won one of these in one of my other recent giveaways.)
     
    lordmarcovan, Apr 30, 2018
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  11. Milesofwho

    Milesofwho Omnivorous collector

    I’ve given my opinion on what it’s not and the evidence for it when this thread first began, but I have no earthly idea what it really is.
     
    Milesofwho, Apr 30, 2018
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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    You almost certainly know more than I do, even if it's a case of knowing what they aren't. But without being provided an alternate attribution for what they are, I just ran with what (vague, incomplete) information I had.

    If anybody does find a firm attribution of these, do please let us know.

    I know they came from India. Directly and literally. A CoinTalk member from India sent them to me. He said they were Amirs of Sindh but did not know anything else (and I don't know how confident he was of the Sindh attribution).

    There you have it.
     
    lordmarcovan, Apr 30, 2018
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  13. Milesofwho

    Milesofwho Omnivorous collector

    Ok! I didn’t mean any harm. Thank you.
     
    Milesofwho, Apr 30, 2018
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  14. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    No harm taken- I just couldn't go with a negative atttibution like, "This isn't a ..."

    Had to call 'em something, even if that attribution was uncertain and came with a disclaimer.

    Maybe you'll win one and go on to solve the mystery for the rest of us! :)
     
    lordmarcovan, Apr 30, 2018
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  15. Milesofwho

    Milesofwho Omnivorous collector

    I highly doubt that.
     
    Milesofwho, Apr 30, 2018
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  16. Milesofwho

    Milesofwho Omnivorous collector

    I can’t read any Arabic if I tried.
     
    Milesofwho, Apr 30, 2018
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  17. bsshog40

    bsshog40 Senior Member

    Wow, small is right, unless you have really big fingers. Lol I wish I could read them too. That is very artistic for the time period on such small coins!
     
    bsshog40, Apr 30, 2018
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  18. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    kudos to you melord, for your charitable act of giving a ancient coin away. i salute you sir! :)
     
    ominus1, Apr 30, 2018
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  19. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    Well, folks, here are our April winners! :)

    The four names below were selected by the random number generator.

    @Craigescape's number came up, for Post #104.     As it happens, he is one of the ones who says he's never owned a gold coin (though his autocorrect spelled it "good" instead of "gold". I understood the typo because my phone does that, too).

    So guess, what, @Craigescape? Now you DO own a gold coin, even though it's only a tiny speck of one!
    So the remaining four winners will win the tiny bronze coins.

    @rooman9's number came up, for Post #29.
    @fretboard's number came up, for Post #89.
    Last but not least, @Joshg1928's number came up, for Post #39.
    Congratulations, winners. I will do a group PM so I can get your addresses.

    Giveaway-2018-04-winners.png
     
    lordmarcovan, May 1, 2018
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  20. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    OK, so I forgot to bring the package with the gold coin in it to work with me, so as of yet, it remains unopened, and we don't know what it looks like yet. I'll try to get around to photographing it Tuesday. As you see, the drawing is done, now.
     
    lordmarcovan, May 1, 2018
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  21. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    Congrats to the winners!!!:happy::happy:

    Thanks again for the great giveaways this month @lordmarcovan.!!!
     
    MontCollector, May 1, 2018
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