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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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How about a contest where everyone is able to enter a certain number of coins in certain categories? Then they are arranged, 1 vs. 1, and we vote on which one we like more (for any reason whatsoever). Eventually a winner is crowned in each category, they duke it out and a final winner appears with some kind of prize involved somewhere (we can work it out later).
This is based on the similar contest run on Numista, which is currently in its third iteration. Surely we can pull it off too!
The problem is that this forum is full of American users. So American coins would probably have their own separate contest. Here's my idea for categories:
USA Contest
- Classic
- Modern
(defined like it is in the forum titles)
Everything Else Contest
- Canada
- The rest of the Americas
- Australia, New Zealand and Oceania
- The United Kingdom
- The rest of Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Tokens and Medals and Everything Else (assume colonial tokens are coins, if no real coinage existed to compete with them at the time)
Borderline cases: Let's assume Russia is European and Turkey and the Ottoman Empire are Asian.
So, everyone takes pictures of two coins per category and submits them (no pictures of coins in slabs that include the whole slab). Then two of a certain category are randomly selected to be put in a thread, and everyone votes #1 or #2 and the slow elimination begins. Would anyone be interested in such a thing?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Sounds like fun! Would each member be limited to one coin or would you be able to enter another coin if your coin gets voted out of that category? Would the member be able to enter more than one category? Also I'm an error coin collector. Would there be an error coin category or would it be entered in the category for all coins of the same type as a normal strike? Just had to ask.  Ben ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
2805 Posts |
All entries would be made at the beginning and then randomized (and the voters don't know whose coin is whose unless the submitter chooses to reveal themself in the thread), and you would submit 2 for every category. Errors would have no separate category.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One really big problem with this is how this forum is set up. By that I mean there are separate forums for places like US, UK, Canada, Austrailia and on and one and on. You would have to post this idea in all of them. And who and how would it get corrodinated between all those forums? Someone would post something in the Canadian Forum and here it would never be seen. WAIT. I have an idea. This topic could be posted in the CONTEST FORUM.  Edited by just carl
06/18/2014 9:31 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
It would hopefully have its own subforum just for the voting (each vote would have a separate thread).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
655 Posts |
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So, everyone takes pictures of two coins per category and submits them This sounds like fun but can you elaborate on how the entry process works? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
655 Posts |
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WAIT. I have an idea. This topic could be posted in the CONTEST FORUM. You're too much.  Edited by NJ Bob
06/18/2014 9:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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This sounds like fun but can you elaborate on how the entry process works? Pictures get sent/e-mailed/? to some central authority of organizers, so nobody else knows whose submission is whose. Then the same authority begins to randomly pick sets of 2 to be voted on. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I like this idea, it would be fun for sure!
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Posted 06/17/2014 11:25 pm
