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Secret Santa - Holiday Exchange 2014

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 Posted 10/23/2014  12:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadToTheBone to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think the Secret Santa is pretty cool and everything I've ever seen is worth more than $10 but that is not important. Its the thought that makes the gift count. I'm in for sure.
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 Posted 10/23/2014  12:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cjspearsdog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
pm sent, I am in a giving mood:)
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 Posted 10/23/2014  12:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rggoodie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here is the current list

It is alphabetical
not in the order I received them

name
alganbagerap
amida17
Avshater22
BadToTheBone
bpoc1
CelticKnot
cjspearsdog
COINAHOLIC
Connor
Copper Castle
fed_ink85
jack jeckel
jgfindring
Jprine
matttheriley
mcshilling
Nickle Nubber
NJ Bob
oih82w8
perfessor
Pertinax
PocketChangeJunk
scopru
SeatedNut
skyshark124
smokeriderdon
StampVirgin
Susuman
tkbslc
TypeCoin971793
Wade



Interesting no Female members have yet signed up.
come on ladies this is not a gender separator.

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 Posted 10/23/2014  12:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rggoodie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
In answer to questions.
I do not say what to send -
your gift should have a purchase value of $5.00 or more US
We do not want someone receiving a $25.00 gift and they only sent a circulating one cent coin.
Choose your presents in the spirit of Giving
not receiving.
enjoy
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 Posted 10/23/2014  1:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add packrat1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Will we get an idea of what the person collects?
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scopru's Avatar
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 Posted 10/23/2014  2:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add scopru to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Look on the left of your screen for category called 'stuff for members'...subcategory 'what our members collect'...just above section titled 'new ccf auctions'
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packrat1's Avatar
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 Posted 10/23/2014  2:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add packrat1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you. I over looked that before.

Count me in. I'd like to participate.
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 Posted 10/23/2014  3:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add masterofsecrets to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm IN on this too! Had to double-check my post count, and I am over 50 posts! w00t!
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 Posted 10/23/2014  8:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jram to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm in, pm sent. I'm still waiting for last years gift...I still had fun sending my gift out.
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 Posted 10/23/2014  8:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jimjumper to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm in!
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 Posted 10/24/2014  01:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tkbslc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
Will we get an idea of what the person collects?


I kind of like the idea of it being totally random, personally.
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 Posted 10/24/2014  03:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Chances are, if a member collects, say, wheat cents, they probably have enough that they wouldn't really want another common one; and if they collect something uncommon then both you'd have a problem getting it and they would likely have an example anyway. On the other hand, if you send something interesting and unusual, they would probably like it, and might even branch their own interests into that category.
(There's a major member out there who mainly collects old shillings [of some specific time period I don't remember]; if - assuming they signed up - you got them as the recipient, would you send them an old shilling knowing that there's a 99% chance they already have a better example of the same type?)

Last two times, I basically ended up sending a set of 1-2 coins from every former Soviet republic (well, minus Belarus, their coins are NCLT and not particularly cheap), plus a bunch of other various stuff that mainly wasn't coins. Unless I see a specific better choice somewhere, I suspect I'd end up doing the same (if I participate) this time - as it's a relatively easy gift to assemble for me, and most of the possible recipients would like the variety.

TL/DR: you can use the list as a guide if you really have no ideas, but most of the time, you might as well choose the gift you want to send - at least as long as it's not something the general audience considers very unpopular.
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 Posted 10/24/2014  08:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rggoodie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Latest list
name
alganbagerap
amida17
Avshater22
BadToTheBone
bpoc1
CelticKnot
cjspearsdog
COINAHOLIC
Connor
CopperCastle
fed_ink85
jack jeckel
jgfindring
Jimjumper
Jprine
jram
masterofsecrets
matttheriley
mcshilling
Nickle Nubber
NJ Bob
oih82w8
perfessor
Pertinax
PocketChangeJunk
scopru
SeatedNut
skyshark124
smokeriderdon
StampVirgin
Susuman
tkbslc
TypeCoin971793
Wade


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 Posted 10/24/2014  09:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Pertinax to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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at least as long as it's not something the general audience considers very unpopular.


january1may,
What would you consider unpopular ?

If the member (like you) hasn't listed their interests, it's impossible to know what they would like, isn't it ?

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 Posted 10/24/2014  11:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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january1may,
What would you consider unpopular ?


Ugly NCLT. Generic rounds too, but at least most of the time they're silver. A coin being FAO is a plus for some, but some others dislike these for not being "real" (I sadly have to say that until very recently I've been agreeing with the latter).

Any Arabic/Indian coins that you basically can't identify unless you can read Arabic and/or have a very good catalogue. Which is pretty all of them from that time and place, unfortunately.

Any supposedly rare (or uncommon) variety which is only (or mainly) of interest to collectors of the specific series, and won't be worth much if it wasn't this variety.

Probably a few other examples too, but at the moment I can't think of any.
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