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Who down wit OCC? Retroactive to Jan 1,2019,the Wisconsin Old Coin Contest is again at hand! This is your opportunity to scare up some old sites,spank some oldies out of the ground and show that swagger! We all know(especially around here) that getting back to the 1800s is hard enough,not to mention getting far enough back to win this thing! We have had some great coins found and displayed,some being something I could only dream of finding. But the dream is alive!...SOMEBODY found them and that means that they indeed do exist. It isn’t easy,it never will be easy and it’s not easy to win this contest! You have to be dedicated,smart,willing to live outside “da box” or just plain lucky. As always...
1) The coin MUST be found in Wisconsin
2) The coin MUST be identifiable as from a certain age range or have a legible date.
3) Certain tokens which were commonly used in lieu of US currency of the time will be accepted as long as the pre-requisite identifiers are there. I will take the liberty of playing God with this...
4) The contest this year will end on October 31st. Any entries should be posted before this date please!
This is of course my own personal ploy to get people to think about how to advance their own coin hunting. The skills needed to operate any machine proficiently will be needed,as well as thinking about hunting places with history. It is almost a given certainty that fantastic coins will be found,and we should be proud to have found each and every one. 50 years of previous hunters missed that coin,and YOU just found it! I wonder if it’s old enough to win that damn contest...
Good luck to everyone! Hunt legally,be safe,have fun! And post those coins!!
TO CLARIFY!...The coin must be FOUND in Wisconsin,ANYBODY from ANYWHERE can find it! So if you’re in Illinois and want to skip the border...fair game! You live in Minnesota? Iowa? Guam? Find it in Wisconsin and it’s fair game! We’ve had “clean play” so far,I will expect that it will continue...
Thanks again for the fun challenge. When I think of this while detecting, it really does put me in the "old coin" mindset. I'll be working on that progression thing this year.
But hey, your rules don't even mention using a metal detector. If I were to "find" a really old coin at a Wisconsin coin shop, will that count? Coinstar maybe? With these new, wide open rules, I have a shot at this!
