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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2856185, member: 76086&quot;]I am so heartened to see that many people are gifting coins with much more frequency.&nbsp; Last winter I gifted one per week for a while before Christmas (dont remember how many weeks).&nbsp; There are of course pitfalls to doing so.&nbsp; As it was pointed out last year a number of the coins I gifted ended up on Ebay almost immediately, and that is just sad.&nbsp; And I gifted some coins which were extremely rare or very scarce.&nbsp; I&#039;d like for them not to end up on Ebay, but to go to someone who will appreciate them and/or at least keep with them for a while.&nbsp; After all, the whole reason we do this is to promote the hobby and the history behind the coins, not to sell and get $5 or $100 for a coin you got for free.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I am now presenting a new concept.&nbsp; My gifted coins will not go to a random entry but to a person who is nominated!&nbsp; You wont be entering for yourself but will be doing so on behalf of someone else.&nbsp; I realize there will be many issues with this idea but I will do the best I can and here is the basic idea:</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins I gift will be done so in similar fashion to the past:</p><p><br /></p><p>They will be unattributed.&nbsp; It will be up to the receiver to try and figure out what they are. This promotes both research and (I hope) some history behind the coin itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will have sole discretion as to who I gift these coins to.&nbsp; No favoritism.&nbsp; Honestly, as I really dont favor anyone now or ever and hopefully everyone can be happy with the winners.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone entering this will nominate someone other than themselves (preferably a young numismatist or someone new to collecting ancients), giving their reasons for doing so.</p><p><br /></p><p>The nominee must acknowledge that they are willing the receive the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end I will pick the winner and send off the coin free of charge, worldwide.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think pretty simple, last year I had a couple times where I couldn&#039;t do one per week, so I will just do as many as I can time permitting.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the question now before I get started, what does everyone think?&nbsp; Any suggestions of how to make it work better?&nbsp; I would love to get started again gifting coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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