THE RULES
1. HOW TO ENTER:a. You must be a registered member of
FORVM's
discussion board to play.
b. Go to the following page to buy your coins. A contest entry is item number UC5. Each entry participates in only one round or judging. If you want to try again, you have to buy and clean another group of coins. You may not have more than one lot of coins entered in the same round or judging.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=2768c.
Forum may include more than 5 coins in your entry. If you get more than 5 coins, all coins received must be entered.
d. After receiving your coins and before cleaning them, post a scan or photo of your coins on
FORVM's
Discussion Board in the
Uncleaned Ancient Coins Contest Board. Make sure your scans are not wider than 750 pixels. For better photos or scans, use two scans for the obverses and two for the reverses, so each scan is only two or three coins wide. If you put all five coins
side by
side in a single scan the photos will be too small at 750 pixels wide.
Forum frequently gives an extra coin or two in our lots. Especially if one of the coins is a little
AE4. All coins you receive must be entered in the contest. The contest includes luck of the draw (two of the three winners are at least somewhat based on luck -
good or bad). Extra coins are
good luck and must be included. When you put up the pictures of your dirty coins upon receipt, put your username and "BEFORE" in the title. Do NOT include a round number in the BEFORE post title. Contest round numbers are not assigned to an entry until after the coins are cleaned. (Moderators please do not make entries sticky until the "AFTER" photos or scans are posted and the completed entry is assigned to the current round.)
e. After you clean your coins, post a scan or photo of your cleaned coins on on
FORVM's
Discussion Board in the
Uncleaned Ancient Coins Contest Section. Make sure your scans are not wider than 750 pixels. For better photos or scans, use two scans for the obverses and two for the reverses, so each scan is only two or three coins wide. If you put all five coins
side by
side in a single scan the photos will be too small at 750 pixels wide.
f.
Identification and
attribution of your coins may be considered by the
members in judging your entry.
Tools for identifying your coins are available at
romancoin.info. Asking for ID
help is not allowed until after judgement.
g. When your entry is
complete and you are ready for judgement, modify the first (BEFORE) and last (AFTER) post, changing the title to"Round
# -
your username " (insert the current round number and your actual username).
e. Prepare to be judged.
2. JUDGMENT:a. Judging will begin when a moderator of the
Uncleaned Ancient Coins Contest Board determines 8 entrants that have submitted cleaned coins for judging, or six months have passed since the last judging, whichever
comes first.
b. A moderator of the Boards will set up three polls one for each of the awards.
c. The
members that answer the poll decide for themselves how they judge. There is no established judging criteria. Each member will have their own opinion of what is better or worse, and what is more important or less important.
CONSERVATOR for the best cleaning and preservation
Minimum prize value $25
PROVIDENTIA for the luckiest contestant
For the glory
DAMNATIO for the unluckiest contestant
Minimum prize value $25
d.
Members of the boards may each vote once in each of the three polls.
Members select the winners.
Members do not have to be
fair, logical or make sense at all and their judgment is final. Judging will last approximately two weeks. A moderator will close the polls anytime during the 24 hour period after the two week judging period ends. In the event of a tie at the end of the two week judging period, the polls will remain open until one entrant is ahead by two votes.
Members may vote until the polls are closed.
3. PRIZE SELECTION:a. During the week of judgment.
FORVM will post two prizes on the
Uncleaned Ancient Coins Contest Board. Each prize will have a value of at least $25.
b. The winner of the DAMNATIO award will select a prize by posting their
choice on the board.
c. The winner of the
CONSERVATOR prize will get the prize that the DAMNATIO winner did not select.
d. Winners must provide
FORVM their mailing address to receive their prizes (if it is not already on file).
A FEW POINTERS:SCAN YOUR COINS IMMEDIATLY UPON RECEIPT - DON'T CLEAN THEM AT ALL BEFORE YOUR BEFORE PICTURE.
PHOTO OR SCAN QUALITY COUNTS - IF WE CAN'T SEE THEM WE CAN'T JUDGE THEM. PUT THE COINS CLOSE TOGETHER, EVEN TOUCHING, IN TWO OR MORE ROWS. CUT OUT ALL THE EMPTY SPACE. MAKE YOUR SCAN 700-800 PIXELS WIDE.
ATTRIBUTION COUNTS - SHOW ALL YOUR SKILL. DON'T ASK FOR
HELP WITH
ATTRIBUTION UNTIL THE ROUND IS OVER.
GREEN COINS ARE GOOD - STRIPPING
PATINA IS BAD, BAD, BAD. DON'T USE CHEMICALS ON BRONZE COINS. EVEN SOAKING IN DISTILLED WATER FOR TOO LONG WILL REMOVE SOME PATINAS. COINS THAT START GREEN SHOULD END GREEN!
ROUND NUMBERS - DO NOT INCLUDE A ROUND NUMBER IN YOUR POSTS UNTIL YOU ARE DONE AND READY TO BE JUDGED. DO INCLUDE A ROUND NUMBER IN YOUR POSTS AND MODIFY OLD POSTS TO INCLUDE THE ROUND NUMBER WHEN YOU ARE READY TO BE JUDGED.
