Miami Valley Coin Club

Time To Get Ugly!

Roll out the red carpet – it’s time for the Dayton-Kettering Coin Club’s third annual Ugly Coin Contest! The premier contest of its kind in northern Southwestern Ohio, the DKCC-UCC strives to find the nastiest, scariest, most MS-Ugly numismatic item around – sort of an April Fool’s commentary on registry sets, none graded higher, etc. At our April 5th meeting, we’ll be awarding prizes for both the ugliest coin, as well as the ugliest short set (cent, nickel, dime, quarter – don’t have to be the same dates). The rules are pretty simple:

 – Coins must be found in circulation (parking lots, backyards, couch cushions, piggy banks, rolls from the bank, etc. all count)

– You can’t damage it more – no making it worse then it already is!

The judges will be awarding up to 5 points in each of the following four categories: severe wear (slick is best), mutilations (drilled, hacked, bent, etc.), corrosion (just how long was that thing buried), and discoloration/gunk (eww, that looks like my dog ate it). So that’s a maximum of 20 ugly points per coin; grades for the set will be an average of the four coins.

So start looking for your entries now – you could be the 2012 Ugly Winner!