Wake up the World Coins Forum! (aka "I can't stop giving stuff away")

And Prize #3 (an also-as-yet-undetermined World coin prize) goes to...



@Seattlite86, for Post #36!

 

Winners:

I will need you to:

1. PM me your mailing address.
2. Give me your word that you posted no more than three entries and followed the rules, since I did not have time to go back through the thread and verify everything.
3. @sam_raph and @Seattlite86 - since your prizes have not been selected yet, you may opt for the "surprise" option, or I can post your prizes here once I've figured out what they are. You may also PM me your favorite countries or general categories of World coins, and I'll see if I can't custom-choose something fun for you (though my hoard of stuff in boxes is not as vast as it once was).

Congratulations, and thanks for playing!

Doing "cheap but fun" giveaways is as much fun for me as it is for the winners, so there will be others!

 

OK, you last two winners of "as yet undetermined" coins.

They have now been determined.

The images below are scans, with all the limitations that implies.

Sorry if y'all's wins are kinda junky, but hey, the price was right, eh?

@sam_raph said he was interested in Japanese coins.

Here's what you're getting, sam_raph.

At least there's a little silver and some 1800s there.

Really, I don't entirely know what's here, beyond the vaguest notion. I am able to look up and catalog Japanese coins, but only after scratching my head over the date numerals and looking at charts to see what they say. Obviously I speak or read no Japanese, and I was in no mood to do the head-scratching over these, so into your envelope they'll go, without much research by yours truly.




@Seattlite86 said he was interested in older German or British coins.

My pickin's in both those categories were much slimmer than I had remembered.

No silver, and you got some junky stuff, I'm afraid (dull West German pieces - *yawn*), but there's a Nazi 50-reichspfennig in there (albeit not the best), and you got an 1806 Brit halfpenny (again, not the best). And all of yours are at least in 2x2s, except for the one horrid, thin little German States billon minor, which is probably from the 1600s or 1700s, but who knows. It's a pretty wretched little slug for the most part.






Still, my giveaways tend to go for "cheap but fun", and I think this stuff should fit that bill. Fun, if not fantastic, right?

 

This was fun.

So let's do it again!

 

Ahmm... @Seattlite86 - about that ... before we left town, ladymarcovan was kind enough to do my mailing the other day. However, since yours is an APO address, it required a customs form, which i hadn't filled out. So they gave it back to her and it has to wait until I get back home before I'll have a chance to ship it.