COINTALK COIN CONTEST GIVEWAY CHALLENGE

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V19 2016 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 45, November 6, 2016, Article 17

Dave Bowers forwarded to me an email from World Coin Collector Jason Hoffpauir, an active participant in the CoinTalk forum. He was planning a coin quiz contest. Dave suggested I could help publicize it, which I agreed to do. The first contest was posted today. Good luck! -Editor

Greetings all. I will be holding a 1,100+ post coin give away. In all honesty, I was supposed to have had a very special one at my 1,000 post but things were not meant to be. Such is life. I have truly enjoyed watching and reading all the posts on Coin Talk and I felt compelled to give back to this numismatic community using this venue. I even went as far as to personally e-mail one of our hobby's biggest icons and contributors, Q. David Bowers and see if he was interested in participating in my 1,000 post.

Well much to my surprise, about a month later he responded back to my e-mail and stated that Wayne Homren, editor of The E-Sylum would be interested in publishing our little coin giveaway contest in an upcoming issue of their magazine. Mr. Homren sent me an e-mail describing their magazine,

“The E-Sylum is an electronic counterpart to our print journal, The Asylum. It's free and you don't have to be a member to subscribe. It goes out each Sunday night to over 2,000 numismatic bibliophiles, researchers, and just plain collectors. We cover a wide range of subjects and most people find something of interest in each issue”.

On top of that Q. David Bowers sent me his personal archive of quiz questions he has been compiling since 1950. His archive was a word document that was 79 pages in length full of every types of question that dealt with Numismatics as a whole. All he asked was that if we use some of his questions then to credit “From the archives of Bowers & Merena Galleries, Wolfeboro, NH.”.

OK now let’s discuss the guidelines and rules of coin give-away contest I will be holding. I am going to try and keep this as simple as possible.

There are five coin contests planned. Prizes include silver coins, bullion, medals, silver proof sets, and more. Good luck! -Editor

To read about and enter the contest, see:
1,100 Coin Giveaway Contest (www.cointalk.com/threads/1-100-post-coin-contest-giveway-challenge-your-numismatic-minds-great-prizes.286064/)

To whet your appetite, here's one of the questions. Tough even for E-Sylum readers! -Editor

In the 19th century, when coin collecting was just beginning to become popular, one of the most publicized American coin rarities was featured in advertisements and news items. For a long time, Ebenezer Locke Mason, Jr., stated that he would pay $25 for a nice one: