Large Cent Giveaway to a YN or Financially Strapped Collector

Brian's suggestion is good, and your contest sir is by far the best one. Your contest makes us look back how we started collecting and i bet it sure brings back good memories to the likes of us.

IMO, to answer to your question about having a fair contest, just make a contest that doesnt require votes.

 

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yes, i agree. better safe than sorry.

 

I don't think PMing other members is fair either. Be honest because if you send me a PM to give you a like is not going to happen sorry. And you know who you are.

 

FYI. to add to this, people are sending PM's asking you to "like" their msg.

Edit: Opps TOnedcoins already stated this

 

seriously???? wow! i sent a message to some people to look at this contest, but not to specifically vote for me. almost all my votes are from pretty well known members on cointalk.

P.S, they didn't even vote, i don't think...

 

Well thankfully this contest is now over!

I will be attempting to sort things out with the valid LIKES to declare a winner of the Large Cent over the next few days.

I did get a volunteer to also attempt to tabulate valid LIKES ... so I will be cross checking my count with theirs.

Since many of you were running tabs on who won, post who you think won.

Also if anyone has the gumption, drive, enthusiams to do a valid LIKE count for all the particpants, that would be great. I would like to get sanity checks for the totals that I come up with ... as well as my volunteer.

Be sure to ignore likes from the bogus accounts that were highlighed previously.
The bogus accounts were:
Bartsimpson
bobbyjack,
barbernut,
oregonducksfan
uscons


The more sanity checks I can get from you all the better!

I will Declare the official large cent winner once all the dust settles on the tabulation

I will do the drawing for the 2nd coin winner after i get a good LIKE total for all the participants to determine the number of chances in the drawing. I will post here who won that 2nd coin prize.



I will PM the winners to get their shipping address after they are declared.

Thanks for your participation!!!

I really enjoyed reading all your stories and getting to know all of you better.

 

well here is my tally up (w/o the mumbo jumbo accounts):

kyedhed -3
mizozuman2 -6
collectingkid- 3
cciesilski01- 2
HULLCOINS- 1
stlouiscoin- 3
cazkaboom- 7
awalker- 14
zach24- 10
alex491- 3
tylercw- 2
tylerg.- 4
downlow- 3
igradems70- 13! winner!
jcb1983- 5
makecents- 2
bigBM- 3
cookie monster- 3
mojavedave- 4
ozleck77 -12
shamrock111- 2
10gary22 -2

again i haven't gone through to see fakes yet, but i'm going to next!

 

So, Rickyh, was the message ever submitted to Peter regarding Awalker's numerous accounts? If so, did he reply stating his account has been terminated? Just curious...

Great contest, WL, even if there were a few bumps in the road. Successful one, IMO. I won't accept any prizes until everything is completely sorted out.

-Brian

 

Dangit!
I missed the deadline. :/

Here's my story I had typed up anyways:

Good afternoon everyone. Nearly forgot about this contest between schoolwork and work and other things. Stay busy all the time. Anyways, here's my story:

Up until the 6th grade I didn't give a hoot about coins/currency. Then one day when I got home from school that all changed. One day I was going through my dad's change and I found a 1956 wheat penny. I immediately stopped because I had never seen one before and ran and asked him why this penny looked different from the other ones. He told me that was how they used to make them and I was hooked. For the next couple years I was guided by the school librarian, whose husband was a war veteran and coin collector, and an old red book that he had donated to the school's library. Every coin I got during that time was from change. I had a blast finding wheat pennies and putting together a set of the state quarters. I didn't get much past that until I got a car and a job some 3 and a half years ago. At that point I had money, transportation, and I worked at a grocery store where we went through a ton of change. I spent the first few months just getting change from those who knew I collected and saved it for me, but soon a coin dealer opened up in the local flea market. He wasn't the most knowledgeable collector nor the most reasonably priced, but he was very kind to me and he was the only one in town. I bought coins from him for about a year mostly just spending my spare change and I was able to assemble my first complete set: a 20th century type set. He then helped me along with other older coins as well as foreign coins when I had a hankering to buy them. The only coin in my type set I did not purchase from him was my Morgan Silver Dollar (although I ended up purchasing 2 from him anyways). He was a dear friend of mine and I stopped by nearly every single weekend to talk to him and his wife. But alas, all good things must come to an end, and he moved up to West Virginia in August of 2010 to be with his daughter.
In January of 2010 I joined this forum and began learning a ton. I spent countless hours reading threads devouring every bit of information I could. Eventually I became a regular poster and began participating in contests and have even held a few. After a few months I even found myself being able to answer other's questions. Now, with over a thousand posts, I have learned much more from this community than I will probably ever be able to give back. My thanks go out to all of you who took (and still take ) the time to answer my noobish questions.
After Joe left (that's the coin dealer's name btw haha) I found myself once again without a dealer. I started buying some from Ebay and picking up odds and ends when local antique stores would get in one or two coins. To this day I still do not have a dealer within reach of me that is there every day although one does keep his cases stocked at a local shop.
Oddly enough, Joe left about the same time I started college, which is the same time I ran slap out of funds to buy much. Between driving 34 miles round trip (2 gallons of gas a day) 5 days a week plus driving to work and paying other expenses, my coin collecting budget went from spare change to spare spare change. Needless to say this has greatly limited my buying abilities and I seem to be buying fewer and fewer coins. I still pull a ton from circulation for face (mostly pennies with the occasional silver) but my buying is down to minimal.

Over the years I have collected for many reasons. To begin with I was collecting because they were "cool" because they were "worth more than face". Of course in later years I have realized that investment isn't a good reason for collecting and I now collect for the history. I absolutely love history and coins are one part of that I can carry around with me and physically hold in my hands. There's just something about holding a 200+ year old coin and thinking about where all it has been and who all may have carried it in their pocket. Just imagine, the coin up for this contest was minted in 1855, before the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was still alive at that time. So was Jefferson Davis, and Henry Clay, and so many more important figures. The chances are small, but how awesome would it be to have a coin that one of these great men held? The possibilities are endless! Which is why I would like this coin. History is an amazing thing we can learn from and its cool to own pieces of it.

So that's my story. However boring lol.
Congrats to whoever gets the win.
I still have that '56 penny btw. I'll take its pic and post it sometime soon.

 

Thanks for posting that Lincoln Cent! I can relate to a lot of it!

Yes, I hear you iGradeMS70 ... AWalker does appear to have a lot of suspicious likes, from people with no posts that joined a day or two ago. Some of those new accounts were created within minutes of each other.

 

From what I see, Ozleck77 has 13 votes, tied.

 

yeah, but when i counted, which was the deadline, it was 12.

 

Noticed that as well. At least Caz here has confessed to doing so . I figured Awalker's account was either deleted before he was able to read that he had been caught, or that he's in the shadows and isn't man enough to 'fess-up. What a shame... :rollling:

-Brian

 

thanks for doing the hard count at the deadline mizo ... that helps!

 

no problem! i'm going through now and checking the fakes!

 

And Phdunay with 4

 

thanks for catching your omission from the list phdunay ... i will make sure you get included in the drawing.

 

Thank you WL

 

I see, Over on the West Coast, the deadline wasn't met yet. Dumb me for forgetting you people are way east of me