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ikaros http://omnicoin.com/coins/1025336.jpg 1901 UK Penny The final portrait of Victoria is one of my favorite designs; you know you're looking at the coin of an empire. That said, enough time in a pocket will reduce about any design to a nearly featureless blob. It wouldn't take much more wear to reduce this one to an undated type coin. ikaros http://omnicoin.com/coins/1025335.jpg 1853 Seated Liberty quarter, arrows and rays Not only is nearly all the detail wiped from this coin, the reeding is all worn flat. ikaros http://omnicoin.com/coins/908889.jpg 1749 UK Half Cent Poor George's portrait wasn't all that flattering in the first place; two hundred and fifty years of hard use haven't done him any favors.

I have no objection to these, although do admit to a certain difficulty in thinking of a SFW way to display them here.

I really like the muse/mythology themed ones! Just what I need, something else to collect...

Yeah, I've got to go through mine, too... I definitely have a few suitable for submission. Assuming there's no objection to me participating as well as moderating the whole thing?

Modern Ugly By Design You Poor Poor Thing Please enter your coins from 1971 and after have been deliberately altered, manhandled, experimented upon, hacked up, run over by a train, or the like. Elongated coins should go here. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg Unknown date, possibly a Euro cent Repeatedly exposed to gas flame on my range then quenched in ice water, just to see what would happen. You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Modern Ugly By Design I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Engraved That Way Please enter your coins from 1971 and after that are examples of poor aesthetics. This is a monumentally subjective call; entrants in this thread should simply exemplify poor design. Due to the particularly subjective nature of this category, your comments as to why it is poor/unaesthetic design are strongly recommended. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg 1994A German 5 Mark Somewhere between blandly sterile, and sterilely bland. Brings minimalism to a new low of saying absolutely nothing at all. You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Modern Ugly By Nature Victim of Circumstance Please enter your coins from 1971 and after that have suffered natural environmental damage beyond normal wear. This is a subjective call; entrants in this thread should be coins that have experienced damage beyond what a coin should expect going from pocket to pocket. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg 2000 1 Ruble Found in the street; the gravel appears to be permanently embedded now. You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Modern Ugly By Nature Aging Like Mayonnaise Please enter your coins from 1971 and after that simply haven't aged well. This is a subjective call; entrants in this thread should be simply heavily worn through mainly natural means. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg 1976 UK 1 Penny Heavily worn UK penny found in a Coinstar reject tray You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Old Ugly By Design You Poor, Poor Thing Please enter your coins from 1970 and before that have been deliberately altered, manhandled, experimented upon, hacked up, run over by a train, or the like. Elongated coins should go here. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg Jigsaw cut 1917 Type I Standing Liberty Quarter Some maniac cut out everything but the eagle on the reverse and soldered a ring onto it so you can wear it as a medallion; there's enough left of the obverse to positively identify it as a Type I!! *sob* You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Old Ugly By Design I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Engraved That Way Please enter your coins from 1970 and before that are examples of poor aesthetics. This is a monumentally subjective call; entrants in this thread should simply exemplify poor design. Due to the particularly subjective nature of this category, your comments as to why it is poor/unaesthetic design are strongly recommended. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg 1944 Ecuador 5 Sucres There are some faces you just don't want in your pocket. You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Old Ugly By Nature Victims of Circumstance Please enter your coins from 1970 and before that have suffered natural environmental damage beyond normal wear. This is a subjective call; entrants in this thread should be coins that have experienced damage beyond what a coin should expect going from pocket to pocket. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg Unknown US Half Cent According to family legend, this was chewed up by my great great great great great grandparents' family goat. You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Old Ugly By Nature Aging Like Mayonnaise Please enter your coins from 1970 and before that simply haven't aged well. This is a subjective call; entrants in this thread should be simply heavily worn through mainly natural means. For each coin, please enter the following information: Your ID The URL for the coin image on Omnicoin A brief identification of the coin (optional) Any further relevant information So an entry might look like the following: JRandomUsername http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/nnnnnnn.jpg 1943 Steel Lincoln Cent This was my grandfather's "worry token" which he kept in his pocket and would rub for luck, or just to have something to do with his hands. You may enter a maximum of five (5) coins.

Nominations are going to open midnight (or thereabouts) 20 April 2014 and will close ten days later at 11:59PM 30 April 2014. As I'm a great fan of the KISS principle, the divisions are going to be more related to the type of ugliness than the type or content of the coin. So what we have are two categories with two subcategories each and two eras. The dividing line between "old" and "modern" eras is 1970: "Old" entrants are anything 1970 and before "Modern" entrants will be anything 1971 and after. The two categories are Ugly by Nature and Ugly by Design, with their sub-categories defined as follows: A. Ugly By Nature Aging Like Mayonnaise, Not Wine - Coins that simply haven't aged well at all but are still identifiable as a coin, or are unusually but naturally worn at a relatively young age Victims of Circumstance - Coins that have suffered the ravages of nature, having been corroded or left in the street and run over a few times or partially digested... or all three. Granted, the difference between the two can be subjective -- basically, it's the difference between simply worn out, and being beaten within an inch of its life. B. Ugly by Design I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Engraved That Way - Surely the most subjective of all categories, these are coins that are otherwise perfectly normal coins, but are aesthetically challenged. You Poor Poor Thing - This is for coins that have been the deliberate victim of experimentation or alteration -- holed coins, elongated coins, coins that have been squashed on a railroad track, or sacrifices to mad science. The difference between these is pretty clear -- coins that look exactly the way they were designed to look (more's the pity), and coins that have been deliberately altered in one way or another. Please feel free to (briefly!) make your case for your entries, especially for Section B.1. since that's the one that's the most subjective. Because of the limited number of categories, the maximum number of submissions will be five per category rather than the usual three. You can therefore have a maximum of 40 coins entered between all categories, headings and eras. Please use Omnicoin images. Entry threads will be set up for each of the eight categories. Once all the nominees are in, I will set up the brackets as quickly as I can so that we can get to the voting as soon as possible; if there are an odd number of entrants, one randomly chosen entry will get a bye to the next round. Entries that receive a bye in one round will not be eligible to receive another unless all other entrants have also previously had one. Voting will continue until each subcategory is down to two final entries, one in each era, which will then square off. The subcategory finalists will then face off, and then the final will be between the winners of Ugly by Nature and of Ugly by Design to determine 2014's champion Ugly Coin, at which point condolences will be offered to its owner.

"Mercury" Dime 10c 1917 $10+ US This is Old Number One, the coin I have had the longest, the earliest, and nearly only, survivor from my first foray into collecting in the early/mid 1970s. This dime has been in my possession for 40 years now, and there it's going to stay.

Even the 2009 DC/Territory quarters are tough, but the AtB quarters are just insane. Are people hoarding them, or what? I've kept every single one I've gotten in change since the program started, and there aren't even a roll's worth, and they've been circulating for four years.

Improved the images. That's what I get for shooting in bad lighting and not using a tripod...

2010P Grand Canyon quarter -- these things are darned hard to find in change!

Well, whaddya know? I have a couple updates! These are from eBay. I have taken crummy pictures of them, but at least they're pictures. For the birth year set: 1963 Luxembourg 25 centimes 1964 10 Złotych, 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian University, incuse legend This came in two styles, the other with the same legend in relief. And I keep wanting to say that the opposite of 'incuse' is 'excuse'.

Yes, I do plan to do it; I'm just settling a few things in my mind about how to structure it. I'm tempted to start accepting nominations on April 15, as that's day that already has painful associations with money.

I like the Ohio quarter, less because I'm an Ohioan than because the subject was visible from my granparents' place. So it's a cozy and nostalgic thing for me. I do like the Hawai'i volcano design, too. But you couldn't see those from Lake Erie.

Yeah, there's something about crown-sized coins, no matter where they're minted. I'm quite looking forward to seeing what people put forward as examples of awful design (and expecting to see several designs I like turn up as entries... oh well). I think particularly for that section of the contest I'd like to see a brief rationale behind the nomination, but that probably shouldn't be a required part of the entry. Unless people want to show off their snarky side. Me, I have a longstanding affinity for the dreadful and/or inept. Even before I became a huge Mystery Science Theater fan, I was already a huge fan of the type of movies that they so deliciously took apart.

Apparently I'm in a minority for liking the Churchills and Ikes (although to be fair, I like the Ikes for the moon landing reverse more than the obverse), and I'm still surprised the SBAs haven't been mentioned. Anyway, I'm thrashing a few things through in my mind and should have a proposed set of categories and rules up soon.

Ooo, I remember those coin shows in Toledo, when I lived there! Although I got hooked on coins by a dealer at the weekly flea market we set up for in Perrysburg in the early/mid 1970s. A happy way to spend a Sunday morning, that was. Haven't been to the Columbus shows because not only do I not have a car and it's not easily accessible by bus, but it's on Sunday and I work on weekends. If I didn't have to get to work, I'd make the effort to get out there some Sunday.

People actually using them like they did (more or less) in the 70s. I once stopped at Tim Hortons and paid for my caffeine with a Sacagawea and a half dollar. The girl at the window genuinely asked me if the Kennedy piece was a two dollar coin. >.< (for the record: while I was sore tempted, I was honest and said it wasn't) When I can get my hands on rolls of halves (almost impossible anymore from the banks), I spend what isn't silver and/or doesn't fill holes in my collection. And I almost invariably get funny looks -- especially since no one can figure out what slot in the drawer it should go into since they have five slots anymore: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar. Older (i.e., my age) folks will often smile and comment that they haven't seen a half dollar in ages/a long time/do they still make those? You oughta see what happens when I get my hand on a few $2 bills.

Hadn't set a timeline yet because I wanted to see if there was interest in it. I figure a week or two for nominations, then however long it takes to vote our way down to one final winner. When that's gonna start, I don't know. There would be a certain appropriateness if I could start on April the First, or even April 15th (a day certainly associated with both pain and money)...