[CLOSED] LordM & Friends Coin Giveaway, June, 2019

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  1. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Kind of you to offer. If you wanted to do that - and it's entirely up to you, of course - just send me a picture or two and a description of the lot within a few days of the end of the month. I'd ask you not to ship the coins to me, but rather hold on to them until the drawing at the end of July, and then ship them directly to the winner. Thanks!
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  3. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Neat find. Looks like a 1975-77 F.A.O. issue 1-taka from Bangladesh.

    F.A.O. coins are fun.

    I have a Tanzanian F.A.O. piece at PCGS right now.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  4. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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    If I win, any prize order is fine with me. My first gold coin was a 1 oz Krugerrand that I HOUNDED my Wife for, day and night. Of course, she got me one because she is the best Wife ever. Here’s my Father’s Day loot, acquired today from a private sale, and already posted on the Ancients forum 45ECC0F4-FA0E-42F8-A652-9F22B7721B95.jpeg
     
    Nathan401, Jun 16, 2019
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  5. Wanderingbark116

    Wanderingbark116 Active Member

    Wanderingbark116, Jun 16, 2019
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  6. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    You'll have to "compare the squigglies" on that page to figure out what the date is.

    I didn't even know what country at first, but Bangladesh was my first guess, and pretty soon I saw that was right, and narrowed it down.
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Impressive array of ancients! I have yet to own any big fat Ptolemaic bronzes, or indeed any Ptolemaic coins at all.
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  8. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Hope the wee lass is improving. My nephew Ben had that surgery around that age. Here he is now, just this month, freshly graduated and handsome.

    IMG_2517_1560381993375_1560382018580.jpg

    As to Chinese food... well... this was Fathers' Day dinner tonight. I'll be hitting the leftovers tomorrow. :)

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    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  9. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Forgot to say, I loved that old picture. Nifty evasion copper, too.
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  10. Wanderingbark116

    Wanderingbark116 Active Member

    @lordmarcovan She is doing so great! Hers was submucusal and just her palate so the recovery will be a bit shorter. She is the toughest tiny ever. Still in some pain but she just pushes on through! We are traumatized though (Kidding! Kinda...) Thank you for the picture! It is so hard remember that this will be a funny story we tell one day at her graduation! Here she is today being her bad ass self with finger paints! We owe my husband one though because this is what his dinner time looked like tonight, poor guy.

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    Wanderingbark116, Jun 16, 2019
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  11. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Ha! Great paint job!
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 16, 2019
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  12. mrbadexample

    mrbadexample Well-Known Member

    Lovely. I don't collect ancients, but I'd really like one of those hockey pucks. Octobol?
     
    mrbadexample, Jun 17, 2019
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  13. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Yes! He told me the big'un was 70.1g.
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 17, 2019
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  14. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    I gotta just say "entry post". Prize preference, 12345. My first gold coin was a double eagle I found whilst sweeping the floor in the store where I worked at age 16. I have mentioned it before here on CT. It was worn slick, could not see the date. Like the young dummy I was, I carried it in my pocket for a few days and then it came up missing. Lost it. Guess I will post another gold coin, just for grins. 1912 Netherlands 5 gulden. 1912 NL 5 g obv.JPG 1912 NL 5 g rev.JPG
     
    coin_nut, Jun 17, 2019
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  15. Diane Campsey

    Diane Campsey New Member

    Entry Post......
    My first gold coin was an American Double Eagle... New to this form. I have my Dads coin collection and am still slowly going through the extensive coins and learning what they each are and musing as to why he may have collected them.
    Thoughts today are this is and gets very deep...
     
    Diane Campsey, Jun 17, 2019
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  16. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Welcome, Diane. Don't forget your prize preferences.
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 17, 2019
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  17. Patrick M

    Patrick M Razor edge MD

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    2 1 3 5 4

    I never owned a gold coin.

    1946 East Africa Silver Shilling
    Because it has only .250 silver content gives it a very nice reddish toning

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    Patrick M, Jun 17, 2019
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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    I didn't realize those had any silver content!

    Interesting how coppery that looks, while the Mexican pesos of the late 1950s had only .100 (i.e., 10%) silver content and yet they still look like silver coins, being similar in color to the 35% silver US wartime nickels. Guess it all depends on what the silver is alloyed with.
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 17, 2019
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  19. Norman182

    Norman182 Member

    I'm in England yes it should be sceat auto spell is a pain
    found it detecting but am unsure where it originates from still investigating it as you say it looks European.
     
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    Norman182, Jun 17, 2019
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  20. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Amazing!

    I just bought my first sceat, as it happens.

    https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=383486

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    I had hoped to dig one while visiting the UK in 2013, but didn't. I did manage to find some interesting things over there, including two hammered silver coins.

    If I lived on your side of the pond, I'd go outdoors a lot more often to swing a detector, and would probably be muddy all the time. :)
     
    lordmarcovan, Jun 17, 2019
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  21. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

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    Coin-related... hmm... I found a 1936 Buffalo nickel in my change last week. :)

    I have owned a $2.5 Indian before, but my favorite gold coin of all time that I would love to own? Hands-down... a 1933 St. Gaudens $20.

    Order: 1, 2, 3, 5, 4.

    Thanks to all who have made this possible!
     
    Dougmeister, Jun 17, 2019
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