So I have been mulling this one over for a little bit. I wanted to contribute more to the Monster Raffle 3, but wasn't exactly sure how I wanted to do it. My SBD balance is a little low, and the STEEM/SBD conversion makes changing my STEEM into SBD painful at best.
I considered asking the community to help fund a piece of Silver for the raffle, and talked this over in Discord a little bit, but I couldn't really make the details work out in a way that made sense for everyone, so I passed on that idea.
So here is what I decided to do. We're going to have a little pre-raffle raffle. Here's your chance to win a piece of silver before the raffle begins. And every ticket sold for this raffle will go back in to the #steemsilvergold community as I will use it to buy tickets for MR3. I'll also be using the SBD payout from this post to buy tickets too, so if anyone happens to have a big @silver-hammer to hit this post with, that would be pretty awesome.
So what are we playing for? Well... That Kind of depends on you. But here are some of the options.
So. The Prize will depend on the number of tickets sold. The more that gets sold, the better the prize!
Here's how we're going to break this bad boy down:
We'll start out with a pretty readily available round, The Liberty Buffalo. Not much more to say about this one. Pretty standard, and I hope to just throw it back into the tube and call it a day as we push forward to bigger and badder prizes.
I literally just picked up this piece from @thedamus. I love it! But my wife doesn't. So when the wife is displeased, well things have to be done. My loss is your gain. This awesome one ounce silver bullet will protect you from the upcoming werewolf Apocalypse.
If we head on up the ladder from this one, then this goes in my Fire Safe where I can pull it out occasionally, but it might be more appreciated by someone else, so onto the list it goes.
Here's two ounces of pretty silver shiney. I won this sucker all the way back in Monster Raffle 1. This is the Phelimint 2oz Canadian 150 coin. I picked it as stacking weight when my collection was much smaller than it is now. It's a great piece for someone looking to add some weight to their stack!
I won this one in Monster Raffle 2. It's one slick piece of curved silver. This is the 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction One Dollar Coin Mint Mark P. Comes complete in the box with Certificate of Authenticity. I've seen this one listed on Ebay for anywhere from 75 all the way up to 247!! Truly a collectors piece for the baseball enthusiasts out there.
Now things are getting interesting! Get us up over 100 tickets and we're going to slide right on up to this brilliant hunk of metal. The 5oz Steem Silver Bar poured by none other than @pit-bullion. I snagged this one from the RCS when @raybrockman was selling all of his cool stuff to buy crypto with. It is a tremendous piece that will hurt to send off, but sometimes progress hurts, and it is all for the good of Precious! This one just so happens to be 2018 Pour #2.
I've got this little bad boy locked up tight so it doesn't get lost, so I had to borrow a picture from Mene's website, but if we make it over 126 tickets, I'll go into the vault and pull out this sweet little piece of Mene Gold. The number 2 was my first selection from mene. I chose it specifically because my wife, son and I all have a 2 in our birthdays. This sucker is 2.72 grams of 24k investment grade gold. It can be all yours if you get the lucky ticket.
Not familiar with Mene? Well you should be. Head over to the Steemit blog of @goldmatters who puts out a daily recap of all that is Mene on Steem, then head over to Mene and pick up a little investment grade gold for yourself. This link will even give you a $5 credit for your first order.
If, in the most unlikely of scenarios, we get up over 150 tickets for this here little raffle, then We'll start over from 1. I'll draw two names and the second name drawn will get whatever prize coordinates with the number of tickets over 150 we go. If, by some chance of stupendous good will from everyone, we get over 250 tickets I'll be giving out the Mene Charm AND the 5oz Steem Pour. And all of that 250 would be headed straight over to ssg-community for the raffle. Now wouldn't that be swell?!?!
So what do you think? I have no idea how this will go with everyone hoarding their SBD for the raffle, but I thought it was worth a shot. We'll see how it turns out. No need to select specific numbers, I'll just be throwing all entries into a random name picker. No limit to the number of tickets you buy. Enter as often as you like.
Since @thedamus is already running a raffle on Monster Raffle Eve, I think perhaps we'll make this one coincide with that one, so we can all gather in Discord on Friday night 11/23 and give away some cool metals as a precursor to the main event on Saturday.
So there you have it! I'm ready to ship off some precious metals. Who wants it, and which piece(s) will be sent? That's all up to you. Let's get to it!
Entries are 1 SBD Each! Here's the ongoing participant list.
@tbnfl4sun x5
@geekpowered x4
@thedamus x20
@pbock x10
@fat-elvis x3
@silverd510 x3