Design Contest 2012

The Rules:

• All General, Junior, Associate, Life and Honorary members who have paid dues for 2012 may enter - if you have not renewed for 2012, renew before entering!

• Two (2) entries per Active Member will be accepted.

• Entries must be submitted on the enclosed official entry form (photocopies accepted); you may also enter by sending your entry attached to an email.
  

• The letters, "TEC" and the year "2012" must appear somewhere in the design.

• Designs must be for elongated U.S. cents (not quarters, nickels or any other demonination).

• Designs should address the 2012 theme, "The Novels of Charles Dickens: Satire and Social Justice."

• TEC reserves the right to modify the winning design for space/aesthetics considerations.

• The winning designer's initials will be included on the finished elongated.

• Any design considered improper by the TEC Board will be disqualified at the Board's discretion.

• Please note that all entries will become the property of TEC.

• All entries must be received by Monday, March 5, 2012 , whether sent by "snail mail" or electronically.

• Entries will be judged by the TEC Board based on the following: Originality, Illustration of the theme; Artistic compatibility within size/engraving limitations. (Any design considered inappropriate will be disqualified)

• The TEC Board will select the winning design and the winning designer will be announced in the April TEC News.

• TEC will engrave and roll the winning design on U.S. Cents and distribute them to all active TEC Members through TEC News.

• The winning designer will receive: 25 cents engraved with the winning design; a special set of coins (quarter, dime, nickel, and cent) rolled with the winning design that will be available to no one else; and one free year of TEC membership.

• Note: The free membership must be used by the winner unless a Life of Honorary Member wins, in which case the winner may 'gift' the free membership to a non-member of his/her choice. If the winner is already pre-paid for future years, the closest unpaid year will be considered the award year.

Download the Design Contest Entry Form

(Note: The PDF may not print using Google Chrome as a broswer. If you have an alternate browser to use such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, you should be able to print from one of those. If you do not have access to another browser, email webmaster@tecnews.org to be sent the digital copy of the form)