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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2338895, member: 31533"]This contest runs until there is a winner or 3 months, which ever comes first. Anyone in the U.S. can enter for the main challenge. If you are entering, you may want to check to see if a winner has been announced before entering. The prize for the main challenge is a 2011 US Silver Proof Set:[ATTACH]474949[/ATTACH] Prize to be sent within US only. I would love to have as many YNs play this as possible, too. If you are a YN (under 21 years old) you can either do the main challenge and try for the Silver set, or you can do a secondary challenge. A secondary challenge winner (YN only, no adults) will win a special prize which I will determine later than the start of this contest. I will announce this special prize within a week or two. The secondary YN challenge is to find three coins that would go together in a small set (type or mm set) and explain to me why you chose those coins, and write a history of the coins and the designer. Do not plagiarize other people's work on this, but you can, if you want to illustrate the coins you chose, post photos from elsewhere, only attribute them so we know where you got them. YNs can enter this secondary challenge in the US or outside the US. I will try to find a prize that can be mailed easily to where-ever is needed. Adults, please do not enter this portion... leave it for the YNs (those under age 21). Main challenge: (for the Silver Proof Set as a prize) I have a 10 coin virtual collection I want you to put together. All coins are listed in one of the more current Red Books (since I referenced a red book to decide which coins I wanted in my collection). There is a theme to this, though. It is a virtual collection because will never own it in real life.  There are three parts to this. The first one is in this format to let me know which coins are in the collection: (list in order of coins in display)1.)2.)3.)4.)5.)6.)7.)8.)9.)10.)and the other two are photos of the coins you propose to have in my collection and a formatted display for these. The formatted display does not have to be fully done, as the display can be 'empty' except to show where the coins would go (by number, above). These last two must be pleasing to the eye and all photos of coin must fit in with each other aesthetically. In other words, it has to have a lot of eye appeal. I will verify people's choices periodically. Each member may put up two groupings of coins each day to try to figure out what the collection will have in it. You can take your photos from anywhere to put on here, but likely you won't want to be putting any photos up until you know where this is going. If you do pull pictures, please note the grade, etc. If you do put up photos and a display, make sure you also have put up a list of the coins in the display. Otherwise it may not count for you and someone else could abscond with your ideas. Remember: all three portions have to be done (and shown to me) The person putting who is first to put up a full presentation that encompasses all three points (above) that I would love to have, wins. Eye appeal is going to win it in the end. So if you find that you think, based on the confirmation of coins that you are seeing, that you know the scope of the collection, at that point you might want to start designing the display and looking for coins that would work together. PS. If you haven't already.... read and fully understand what is needed. Don't lose because you only give part of what is asked for in the end.[/QUOTE]

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