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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7151282, member: 10461"]<span style="color: #ff0000"><b>4/19/21: </b>The giveaway portion of this thread is now CLOSED. Winners were announced in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-giveaway-54-time-travel-barter-game.377447/page-5#post-7439046" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-giveaway-54-time-travel-barter-game.377447/page-5#post-7439046">Post #84</a> and <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-giveaway-54-time-travel-barter-game.377447/page-5#post-7439160" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-giveaway-54-time-travel-barter-game.377447/page-5#post-7439160">Post #88</a>. </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><i><b>However</b></i>, if you'd like to keep right on playing with the time travel storytelling part, please do! Keep those stories coming!</span></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is a little different than my usual giveaways. It is not purely random, though we will pick a random winner from amongst a select group of finalists at the end. Nor is it a high-dollar prize, but hopefully the game will be fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>So... what if you could go back in time and barter - pocket change for pocket change - with the shopkeepers and bankers in a major American city in the 1800s? What coins would you bring home with you? What city would you visit?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the scenario.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have a creaky old <a href="https://youtu.be/huziaaaEd1s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://youtu.be/huziaaaEd1s" rel="nofollow">H.G. Wells-style time machine</a> you found in the basement of an old building. It is rusty and not in the best of shape, but it still works. (This is definitely not Doc Brown's <a href="https://youtu.be/HWoW-vX4HT8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://youtu.be/HWoW-vX4HT8" rel="nofollow">DeLorean</a> with the flux capacitor here- it's a pretty <i>primitive</i> time machine. But like I said, it works... <i>mostly</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>place</i> destination dial will still allow you to select any major American city to go to (there's a list of them on the dial). But the rusty gears to the <i>time</i> destination dial are stuck on Friday, April 21, 1865, at 12:34 PM. So you can choose <i>where</i> you go, but you have no choice of <i>when</i> you're going to end up. You're going to to end up in a Friday afternoon in the spring of 1865. And the creaky, dilapidated time machine only has enough power for <i>one round trip</i>. (It runs off unobtanium crystals, I think. And the crystals are old and cracked.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So you go. And you arrive safely, in April, 1865.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Civil War is winding down, now that Lee has recently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House#Surrender_of_Robert_E._Lee" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House#Surrender_of_Robert_E._Lee" rel="nofollow">surrendered</a> to Grant at Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln was just <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" rel="nofollow">assassinated</a> and died only six days ago, and much of the country- at least the North- is in mourning. The South is in ruins. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="nofollow">Jefferson Davis</a> has fled Richmond, the capital of the defeated Confederacy, but has not yet been <a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/capture-jefferson-davis%3Famp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/capture-jefferson-davis%3Famp" rel="nofollow">captured</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that is <i>when</i> you're going to arrive. But <i>where</i> will you choose to land your rickety old time machine?</p><p><br /></p><p>You have outfitted yourself in some simple clothing of the period, so you won't stick out in a crowd when you're walking around in 1865. You choose your destination city, land the machine in a farm field on the edge of town, conceal it beneath a haystack, and walk down the main street into town.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you walk along, you spot a dime lying on the ground. There... see it? Right there. Whoa! Be careful! Don't step in the horse plops! Yes. <i>There.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>You pick it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is an 1857 dime, by now eight years old but already quite well worn for its age.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1274524[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You pick it up and put it into your pocket. Besides the clothes on your back, it is the only commodity you have during this, your brief visit to 1865. By now you have concealed your time machine under the haystack, and it's almost 1:00 PM. You have from now until midnight to walk around town and find something to spend your dime on.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you don't get back into the time machine by the final seconds of 11:59 PM on April 21, 1865, to return to the 21st century, you'll be stuck in 1865 for the rest of your life, and we'll never hear from you again, because you'll end up in an insane asylum when you tell them all your stories about the future. (And trust me, an insane asylum in 1865 is <i>not</i> the kind of place you want to spend the rest of your days!)</p><p><br /></p><p>So... what will it be? Since we are discussing this on a coin forum, we're mostly looking to hear what <i>coins</i> you'd trade your circulated 1857 dime for, though you're allowed to spend the dime on something else, if you prefer.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're going to try to get other coins in exchange for it, let's assume the shopkeepers are friendly enough to let you sort through their tills (with careful supervision, of course) when you politely ask them for change for a dime, and you explain that you're a coin collector and would like to buy some other coins with it. It's a big city, so they've heard of coin collectors. They think you're a rather odd character, but you're friendly and polite, so they play along tolerantly as you pick and sort through their stacks of coins on the counter, watching carefully to make sure you don't pocket any of them until they have your dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have a little less than eleven hours in a major American city in April of 1865. How are you going to spend that dime you found? What are you going to bring home to the 21st century?</p><p><br /></p><p>The best, most creative, and most well-thought-out barter scenarios described, which bring home the most interesting stuff from the trip (remember- your story, though imaginative, has to be <i>plausible</i>) will get a place on the finalist list in this contest. Any story I like, for creativity or for the best, most interesting and plausible barter scenario, will be declared a finalist.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of this month (March 2021) I will do a drawing from amongst all the finalists, and the winner gets to keep that actual 1857 dime above (in reality). I'll send it to you, or whomever you choose, if you win. Plus you'll be keeping all that time travel loot you're going to make with it (virtually).</p><p><br /></p><p>Get in the time machine and go! Where are you going? What are you going to do there? What will you bring home?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7151282, member: 10461"][COLOR=#ff0000][B]4/19/21: [/B]The giveaway portion of this thread is now CLOSED. Winners were announced in [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-giveaway-54-time-travel-barter-game.377447/page-5#post-7439046']Post #84[/URL] and [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-giveaway-54-time-travel-barter-game.377447/page-5#post-7439160']Post #88[/URL]. [I][B]However[/B][/I], if you'd like to keep right on playing with the time travel storytelling part, please do! Keep those stories coming![/COLOR] This one is a little different than my usual giveaways. It is not purely random, though we will pick a random winner from amongst a select group of finalists at the end. Nor is it a high-dollar prize, but hopefully the game will be fun. So... what if you could go back in time and barter - pocket change for pocket change - with the shopkeepers and bankers in a major American city in the 1800s? What coins would you bring home with you? What city would you visit? Here's the scenario. You have a creaky old [URL='https://youtu.be/huziaaaEd1s']H.G. Wells-style time machine[/URL] you found in the basement of an old building. It is rusty and not in the best of shape, but it still works. (This is definitely not Doc Brown's [URL='https://youtu.be/HWoW-vX4HT8']DeLorean[/URL] with the flux capacitor here- it's a pretty [I]primitive[/I] time machine. But like I said, it works... [I]mostly[/I].) The [I]place[/I] destination dial will still allow you to select any major American city to go to (there's a list of them on the dial). But the rusty gears to the [I]time[/I] destination dial are stuck on Friday, April 21, 1865, at 12:34 PM. So you can choose [I]where[/I] you go, but you have no choice of [I]when[/I] you're going to end up. You're going to to end up in a Friday afternoon in the spring of 1865. And the creaky, dilapidated time machine only has enough power for [I]one round trip[/I]. (It runs off unobtanium crystals, I think. And the crystals are old and cracked.) So you go. And you arrive safely, in April, 1865. The Civil War is winding down, now that Lee has recently [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House#Surrender_of_Robert_E._Lee']surrendered[/URL] to Grant at Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln was just [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln']assassinated[/URL] and died only six days ago, and much of the country- at least the North- is in mourning. The South is in ruins. [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis']Jefferson Davis[/URL] has fled Richmond, the capital of the defeated Confederacy, but has not yet been [URL='https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/capture-jefferson-davis%3Famp']captured[/URL]. So that is [I]when[/I] you're going to arrive. But [I]where[/I] will you choose to land your rickety old time machine? You have outfitted yourself in some simple clothing of the period, so you won't stick out in a crowd when you're walking around in 1865. You choose your destination city, land the machine in a farm field on the edge of town, conceal it beneath a haystack, and walk down the main street into town. As you walk along, you spot a dime lying on the ground. There... see it? Right there. Whoa! Be careful! Don't step in the horse plops! Yes. [I]There.[/I] You pick it up. It is an 1857 dime, by now eight years old but already quite well worn for its age. [ATTACH=full]1274524[/ATTACH] You pick it up and put it into your pocket. Besides the clothes on your back, it is the only commodity you have during this, your brief visit to 1865. By now you have concealed your time machine under the haystack, and it's almost 1:00 PM. You have from now until midnight to walk around town and find something to spend your dime on. But if you don't get back into the time machine by the final seconds of 11:59 PM on April 21, 1865, to return to the 21st century, you'll be stuck in 1865 for the rest of your life, and we'll never hear from you again, because you'll end up in an insane asylum when you tell them all your stories about the future. (And trust me, an insane asylum in 1865 is [I]not[/I] the kind of place you want to spend the rest of your days!) So... what will it be? Since we are discussing this on a coin forum, we're mostly looking to hear what [I]coins[/I] you'd trade your circulated 1857 dime for, though you're allowed to spend the dime on something else, if you prefer. If you're going to try to get other coins in exchange for it, let's assume the shopkeepers are friendly enough to let you sort through their tills (with careful supervision, of course) when you politely ask them for change for a dime, and you explain that you're a coin collector and would like to buy some other coins with it. It's a big city, so they've heard of coin collectors. They think you're a rather odd character, but you're friendly and polite, so they play along tolerantly as you pick and sort through their stacks of coins on the counter, watching carefully to make sure you don't pocket any of them until they have your dime. You have a little less than eleven hours in a major American city in April of 1865. How are you going to spend that dime you found? What are you going to bring home to the 21st century? The best, most creative, and most well-thought-out barter scenarios described, which bring home the most interesting stuff from the trip (remember- your story, though imaginative, has to be [I]plausible[/I]) will get a place on the finalist list in this contest. Any story I like, for creativity or for the best, most interesting and plausible barter scenario, will be declared a finalist. At the end of this month (March 2021) I will do a drawing from amongst all the finalists, and the winner gets to keep that actual 1857 dime above (in reality). I'll send it to you, or whomever you choose, if you win. Plus you'll be keeping all that time travel loot you're going to make with it (virtually). Get in the time machine and go! Where are you going? What are you going to do there? What will you bring home?[/QUOTE]
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