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 Australia
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OK, fellow Knights and other Darksiders, this is my contest. (if we're knights, should that be "tourney"?  ) 1. The aim is to identify the country of origin of as many of these coins as you can. 2. The contest shall be open for one week from now. If by the end of that week, no-one has found all the correct answers, the winner shall be the first person to send in the highest number of correct answers. On the other hand, if anyone gets all the answers right, they win and the contest is over then and there. 3. Send your answers to me by e-mail. Because my e-mail program sorts mail by "Your Time Sent" rather than "My Time Received", you must "lock in" your answers by simultaneously posting a brief note here, along the lines of "Sap, you've got mail". Do not post your answers in the Forum. 4. You will not be informed of how well you did until the contest is announced to be over. If, after you send me your answers, you wish to add to or correct your answers, you may do so. Only the final answers received will be accepted. 5. The winner will receive a nice bundle of darkside coins: Australia Bradman 20c, Congo 10 sengi, Ecuador 20 sucres, Eritrea 5 cents, Paraguay 10 guaranies, Slovenia 50 stotintov, Straits Settlements 5c. Enough with the fine print, already. Here are the coins! Coin 1:  Coin 2:  Coin 3:  Coin 4:  Coin 5:  Coin 6:  Coin 7:  Coin 8:  Coin 9:  Coin 10:  Coin 11:  Coin 12:  Coin 13:  Coin 14:  Coin 15:  Coin 16:  Hints: - They're all pictured in Krause, and all but two are in the 20th century Krause. - No "German States" - you can safely ignore that section of the Catalogue. - Unless the forum is resizing them, all coins are to the same scale - small pictures are small coins. - So as not to disadvantage "casual darksiders", you won't need the latest version of Krause; 1993 is the newest coin in the list. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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03/28/2006 02:23 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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OK, I've sent in my answers, I got to find three more to get the lot.
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Valued Member
Finland
294 Posts |
SAP,do you have any email address you can show here? I canīt send mail for other members yet  |
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Moderator
 Australia
16806 Posts |
Just hit the button in the header of any post I've written, such as this one - the icon with the little envelope in it. That should use the forum's e-mail system to send me one.
Just in case that isn't working for you, I'll send you an e-mail the same way right now.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
My Final answers have now been sent to you Sap.
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Forum Dad
United States
24147 Posts |
Eurocoin~~ I fixed it so you can send mail now.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Sap. You've got mail. Some guesses though! Steve  |
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Valued Member
Finland
294 Posts |
Ok,now you have got mail. Thanks for helping |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1079 Posts |
I have got about four of them.
I will keep trying. I want to try without the book.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
cant figure out a one of em!
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Valued Member
United States
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Don't feel bad Bryan, I am lost too. I will be looking forward to seeing the answers.
Good luck everyone.
Margaret
Edited by Margaret
03/27/2006 11:22 pm
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Moderator
Australia
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I now have a winner. The contest is closed.
And the winner is...
Toast, with a final score of 16/16.
Eurocoin and Triggersmob, valiant efforts, but thy scores are only 14―/16 each.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Australia
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Here are the correct answers. I'll post them down here rather than up with the coins, so latecomers and new members can still have a go at the quiz if they want (though, of course, just for fun, as the trophy has been claimed.)
These are the answers I was after. Half-points were at my discretion, though the outcome remained unchanged.
1. Katanga (only half a point if you said Congo, Belgian Congo or Zaire)
2. Georgia
3. France
4. German New Guinea (half point if you said Papua New Guinea or New Guinea)
5. Hungary
6. Euzkadi (or the Viscayan Republic). Full point if you said "Spanish Civil War", half point if you just said "Spain".
7. Laos
8. Malaysia
9. Belgium
10. Ethiopia
11. Liechtenstein
12. Greenland
13. Algeria
14. Afghanistan
15. Guatemala
16. Guinea-Bissau (half point if you said just Guinea).
I hope you all had as much fun finding the answers as I had finding the questions. Good luck in the next contest!
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
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Congrats Toast,
Sap Thanks for the contest.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
9356 Posts |
Great contest, Sap. Well done Toast. Let's drink a toast, to Toast, because in the end we were toasted. I never would have guessed Ethiopia for 10. steve |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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That was fun.
I learned a lot by checking out the Hungarian coin. I worked it out by the 1038 date, it was the year Saint Stephan died. Although the birth date did not match the encyclopedia the many searches I did. He founded Hungary and was King.
What denomination and year is that coin?
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