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This one was difficult. I had a couple of coins in mind from the start but then they ended up being under the mintage criteria. This 25 centimos from Venezuela meets all the criteria with a mintage of 36 million  Points 24 - 24 vowels around the coin 5 - horse 2 - silver (0.835) 31 points Edited to add: I like that you established criteria for the coin and then only offer points to coins which meet the criteria. I think future winners could look to this model. Limiting the types of coins which can participate might open up some options for contests. Edited by bd251
07/01/2019 12:42 pm
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37 million   20 vowels (23 if you include the designer) .835 Is the sun a star? Edited by Arkie
07/01/2019 12:11 pm
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That's the danger of having a lawyer design a contest.  |
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Edited by Dorado
07/01/2019 3:28 pm
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Nice coins...  Lettering around the peripheral of the coin counts...So Arkie's (O.Roty) and bd251 (BARRE) count..  The sun is a star but sorry I'm looking for a star shape so doesn't count.  Countries hit so far..Argentina, Venezuela and France... |
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I'm not hitting this one out of the park, but rather will have to settle (again) for participation points. Here is a half penny from Australia from 1943 (mintage of just north of 41 M). I count 15 acceptable vowels (i.e. excluding the V in GEORGIVS) plus a star for two more points: 17 total.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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If only it had a horse... (Edit: ...and was silver!)   Mintage: 24,720,000 25 vowels = 25 points Star = 2 points Total = 27 points In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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07/02/2019 01:20 am
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Leaders board so far..
bd251.........31 Points
spruett001....27 Points
Arkie.........24 Points
Dorado........19 Points
Spence........17 Points
Countries hit..
Argentina
Australia
France
USA
Venezuela
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Russian Federation
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Two quick questions:
1) do the vowels have to all be legible, or is it enough that they're supposed to be there (even if they're worn away on my example)?
2) what's the date range on "ancient" (i.e. do medieval coins count)?
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@january1may...
1)..Yep its fine if all the letters aren't legible but post a link to a more legible one for reference...
2)..Any coin dated before AD 2000 is acceptable..
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Interesting round so far.  |
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Most of my horse coins don't have a lot of words - I think this is my best bet Austria 30 Kreuzer 1807   FRANZ KAIS V OEST KOEN Z HUNG BOEH GALLIZ U LOD DREVSSIG KREUTZER ERBLAEND ISCH 1807 WIENER ST BANCO ZEIT THEILUNGS MUNZ Z 30 K I count 34 vowels plus 2 points for the stars |
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Austria 30 Kreuzer 1807 Sorry Steve doesn't count it has less than the required mintage criteria.. Plus the legend WIENER ST BANCO ZEIT THEILUNGS MUNZ Z 30 K is written horizontally and vertically so wouldn't of counted..  |
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Bah Humbug!  Back to the drawing board I guess. |
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@january1may...
1)..Yep its fine if all the letters aren't legible but post a link to a more legible one for reference...
2)..Any coin dated before AD 2000 is acceptable.. Yeah, looks like my example should work. Though even I have to admit that it's a serious stretch... there's a reason I wasn't sure if it would count.   Bohemia, Royal Mint (Kutna Hora), Wenceslas IV (III), Prague groschen, 1378-1419. The Numista example isn't that much better than mine. (I did choose the best of about 40 coins in that bin.) This auction is the best actual example I could quickly find. For an idea of what a theoretical perfect example might have looked like, see this thick strike. Obverse outer ring: DEI GRATIA REX BOEMIE Obverse inner ring: WENCEZLAVS TERCIVS Reverse: GROSSI PRAGENSES I count 20 vowels (excluding the Vs). There should, in principle, be stars on the reverse, but I can't see the relevant area (upper right, about 1-2 hours) well enough to tell whether this example has any. Silver content about 61-63 percent. No horses. No date on either side. I think there might be coins I have which would have counted for more points if they were eligible, but most of them probably aren't (in one particular case that comes to mind, I couldn't find the mintage anywhere, but it is almost certainly far below 20 million). |
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