Ended.....toning: A Thing Of Beauty?.....ended

Good guess.. wheezydog, Congrats.

Wow! That is amazing! PM sent.
Thank you for the contest! It was all pure luck.

Maybe you want to tell everyone the answers though to remove any questions they might have how you conclude that I won.
I want this to be fair and square and normally the answers are posted at the end of contests.
Or at the least PM them to us.
I can keep a secret but I think I have a good idea what they are at this point.
AGAIN Thanks for the great prize! It's awesome!

Everything needed to answer the original 3 questions is in the thread. I know that's true because I'm the one that pointed out to zeewool that ShaftA9a had been overlooked.

The only thing not in the thread is the finalists guesses to the tie-breaker question, & they aren't there because posting them might have given another finalist an advantage. As far as I'm concerned wheezydog won fair & square; there is no reason to go any further.

Thanks trdhrdr007, I appreciate that.


Of the four in the final running, I think that I gave the weight answer to everyone except for you wheezy. I really didn't think it should matter to the winner.

If I 'did' overlook you on the correct final answer ianmprice, pm me and I will tell you, but posting any correct answers 'here' I will not. As I said before, I learned from this one, and basing the whole thing on personal info was stupid of me, and is something that I 'won't' do next time.

Thanks 'everyone', (everyone), for your participation, it was fun.

I don't need to know the particulars, and I am sure you are fair and square and you are certainly quite generous with the prize. So of course I am fine with you keeping everything private. Thanks again, all is well. Simply happy to have won and thanks for the good sports congrats as well.

Congrats, Wheezy! Zeewool, that's one of the nicest prizes I've seen offered on here, even if it is ugly!

Thanks, I'll be watching out the window until it shows up!

The mailman was skipping and jumping and whistling a merry tune this afternoon. He gave me that Colgate smile, tipped his cap and handed me a priority mail box. The he winked, did a sharp about face, and was back on his route in the shiny white blue and red van.
I knew it had to be the prize from zeewool.
I could barely contain myself as I ripped into the package with all my might and gusto right there and then in my driveway.
I fumbled through all the paper padding, tossing it carelessly about me and it landed on the ground in small groups.
Finally I had the ANACS holder hiding still in final tissue in the palm of my hand.

As I unwrapped it the sun shone down and struck the surface of the encased Walking half dollar.
I was blinded for a second, maybe a few, and then there it was. A most beautiful woman draped in Old Glory and me with tears in my eyes. All the paper on the ground about me from the box and me holding Liberty before my eyes might have had a passerby think that I might have lost my way and that I was broken into a helpless state of crying my eyes out.
But no, it was the sun that caught my eye. The sun on the coin or the sun from above, or a combination of the two.
All I can say is thanks zeewool, I can testify that it is a thing of beauty, and the toning looks great on it in the afternoon sunlight. I admit, I might be suffering a slight injury from that glare as I see double when I turn the coin over.

The prize has arrived. Much appreciated.