[CLOSED] Penny Luster Giveaway #1 (Twelve Days of COINmas)

Aha! There’s Prize #1 again. Thanks for posting that, Frank. I like when folks take the trouble to post their prizes after they get ‘em. Shows they care.

Minor point of correction: I did not make those elongated cents myself, but rather had them made, professionally, to my design specs. I do not have the rolling machinery myself. (That would be fun, though.)

The silver thaler, though it came from my inventory, was of course @Penny Luster’s gift. (She swapped me some stuff for my contributions here.)

The elongated cent was just a fun little add-on from me.

 

Do not despair. There is still a chance you could get lucky. Six more lots left to go... not even counting this one (Lot #6)! So really we’re not even quite halfway done here. And the lots get bigger- at least in terms of quantity- every day!

I will add a hint that the next lot (#7) would probably be my second favorite, personally, if I were a player here.

(#2- the pair of Peace dollars- would probably have been my own personal favorite.)

Claire’s still got a lot more goodies left to offer here, in the stockings that are still hanging on the mantelpiece...

 

It was a frosty morning here in the Golden Isles of Georgia. Though we’re down here in palm tree territory, close to the Florida line, where it almost never snows, we do get a few freezes and the occasional frost.

The Trash Can Kitties (so named because we feed the outdoor cats on top of the trash cans so stray dogs don’t get their food) were doing that paw-lift dance you’re familiar with if you’ve seen your cats standing on ice or snow. So I scraped some of the frost off the trash can lids before I fed up this morning.

(Side trivia note: I had to use a credit card to do that, since I do not own one of those car windshield ice scrapers and you’d be hard-pressed to find one in the stores down here. I did have one in my car when I first moved down here decades ago, and a friend asked what it was- he’d never seen one!)



This is a closeup of the top of Ladymarcovan’s car in the driveway. This will be fairly unremarkable for many of y’all, but it’s pretty doggone chilly by our SE coastal Georgia standards.

 

Note:

Oops!

It looks like nobody caught it up to now, but in reading back through the thread, I just belatedly realized that I made a major goof in Post #222, when I announced the winner of Lot #5!

In summary, I drew #204 with the random number generator, and announced @Kasia as the winner. But in fact, Kasia posted Post #202, and Post #204 was actually by @ZoidMeister, though it was merely a conversational post of his and not his entry post.

This is easily amended. Here's what I'll do. Kasia should keep the prize. She's been a past giveaway donor here and is deserving, regardless. She might've won due to a goof on my part, but it was meant to be, and I'm happy with the outcome.

But since the "winning" number (#204) was a ZoidMeister post (albeit not his entry post), and he had earlier specified (in his actual entry post, #191) that he wanted the prize to go to @DarkRage666 if he won, I'm gonna send @DarkRage666 something. It won't be the five Buffalo nickels, but might include a Buffalo nickel or two, with some other things.

The way this should have gone during the drawing was when the random number generator pulled #204 and thus landed on a non-valid entry post, I should have drawn again, but instead I mistakenly declared Kasia the winner.

Anyway, if you're confused, you're not alone! I got mixed up too, as you can see.

To sum up: Kasia still gets Prize Lot #5 as (mistakenly) announced, but @DarkRage666 will get something from me, too, since @ZoidMeister wanted it that way.

@DarkRage666 - send me your mailing address in a private message.

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming.

 

Yes, thanks for the reminder. Now that that bit of Lot #5 confusion has been explained, we resume with entry posts for Lot #6, which will be drawn later tonight.

Nice Barber dime. Looks prooflike.

 

@DarkRage666 - see? You ended up getting something after all!

In my “fix-it” lot, you will get the following:

A few Wheat cents including a 1916 and a Red BU 1958, a pretty pink-toned 2020-D cent, four Buffalo nickels (but I’m afraid they’re all dateless or nearly so), some early Jeffersons, some P- and D- mint medals in Mint Set cellophane, and a 4-piece set of my custom elongated coins rolled out on an Indian cent, Wheat cent, Barber dime, and Mercury dime.

Plus @Penny Luster has some goodies for you, too. (Including something much nicer, I think!) She’s been rooting for you to win something all along anyway, so we’ll do this outside of the main contest. I’ll start a group PM between the three of us.



(*The elongated coin pix are a stock image- you’ll get a random sealed set, but it will include those same types.)

 

Wow, I forgot there was such a thing as a red canary! Pat Hootie for me, but keep him out of the birdcage!

 

There are a few hours left before the Lot #6 drawing. I intend to do that sometime after midnight (Eastern US time) tonight.

I’ll double-check to make sure I announce the correct winner this time.

 

The random number generator has spoken again, and chosen the winner of Lot #6.

The number it selected was #240.



And Post #240 was by @Mark1971!

Congratulations, @Mark1971! You have six silver dimes a'comin'.

Let Claire (@Penny Luster) have your address. I will send a PM shortly.