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United States
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I ran a three hour contest yesterday and promised another one since that one was won so quickly, so here goes...I went to my coin club meeting tonight and went nuts buying and made some great finds which I will tell of in another post, but one thing was interesting to me. I saw a very young boy (about 8) sitiing by himself and staring at the floor half the time and at the auction area the other half. He didn't seem to be with anyone so my wife and I spoke to him and he said that his grandmother had dropped him off because he needed to be there to buy a coin. He had a very specific coin in mind and an equally specific reason for wanting it. My wife has been teary-eyed all night talking about it. I wanted to share this story and thought that a contest was maybe a bad way to do it, but it is all I can think about at the moment and I promised a contest. I will share the reason after someone guesses the coin he needed to buy. I will give a hint first and leave it at that since the hint will narrow it way down. The winner will receive a full-date Standing Liberty quarter for their guess. HINT: There's almost no way he'll ever get near one, let alone own one...which makes it even worse. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Ok, I'l make a wild guess, I'm not very well versed in USA coins, so don't laugh at me... I only have about 12 quarters and thee other US coin with me... :/ anyway, I know the 1909 S VDB is pretty rare, so I'll go for that... Its definitely wrong.. :(
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 United States
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I knew you would be the first to reply. You are wrong, but it wasn't a horrible guess. That's a hard coin to find, but much farther from impossible than this one.
Also I am not sure how it works when you forget to put the complete rules in the listing, but I wanted to limit members to 2 guesses per day. If it is too late it's okay, I just got in a hurry I guess.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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So this coin is even rarer than that? I really dunno then but I'll come up with a second blind guess soon enough.. :)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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My last guess of today, which would of course be wrong.... the 1895 Morgan dollar? Its rare isn't it? But I'll be wrong again... :) |
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United States
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United States
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1931S
1922 no d
edit: cents btw
Edited by arthrene
01/15/2008 7:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A 1913 V nickel.  Oh yeah ... second guess 1933 St Gaudens. Might as well shoot for the moon! Edited by SeatedNut
01/15/2008 08:48 am
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 United States
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An 1804 silver dollar.
2nd guess, 1907 Roman numeral St. Gaudens double eagle.
Edited by echizento
01/15/2008 08:39 am
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United States
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How about....1889 Indian Princess
or.....1908 Indian Head Eagle
Thanks,
mila_
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United States
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United States
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United States
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That poor child, maybe she just needed a babysitter  1st guess--18380 seated libert Half Dime2nd guess--1802 drapped bust Half Dime..shield reverse |
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United States
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I think the cheerios dollar is a good guess
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Posted 01/15/2008 03:36 am
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