A riddle (SOLVED!) [решено]

No, sorry.

Clue 10: The riddle has 4 key clues that make up the name of the coin.

random guess: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8091.html

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3050.html

the pound sterling

  highly conductive but no so dodgy

1916D lead mercury fake dime

billon coin

I'm putting it under "too hard to identify"...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces43609.html

Excellent.

OOOK, let's try this...with a recap of the riddle and all the vague hints...

Цитата: manxcat12A coin to find:

"Oww! Your new drain gave me an electric shock!"
"I know, it's very dodgy, but it only cost a dollar"

Clue 1: The answer is not dollar.
Clue 2: The riddle, once solved, gives the name of the coin (as opposed to giving pieces of information about the coin)
Clue 3: The answer is an officially issued coin sharing its name with the currency it belongs to.
Clue 4: The coin (and currency) is no longer legal tender.
Clue 5: keep trying, or maybe persist, continue, persevere or strive for the answer.
Clue 6: The coin was only ever made in one metal.
Clue 7: All of these coins were struck after 1300 AD
Clue 8 is out there, by the way.
Clue 10: The riddle has 4 key clues that make up the name of the coin.

Let's break it down shall we?...

"Oww: Your new drain": new sink. to sink (painful, oww), like a ship. newly discovered Shipwreck,
"Electric shock": electricity, storm, lightning, hurricane.

>>> Shipwreck at sea+pain = Spanish Shipwreck

"Very dodgy": Dubious
"Cost a dollar": Canadian $1: a "Loon"

>>> Dubious+Loon = Doubloon

"Clue 1: The answer is not dollar." Check.
"Clue 2: The riddle, once solved, gives the name of the coin (as opposed to giving pieces of information about the coin)" Check?
"Clue 3: The answer is an officially issued coin sharing its name with the currency it belongs to." Check?
"Clue 4: The coin (and currency) is no longer legal tender." Check.
"Clue 5: keep trying, or maybe persist, continue, persevere or strive for the answer." Shipwrecks can take a long time to find eh? And they can pay off in the end. Check.
"Clue 6: The coin was only ever made in one metal." Daubloons: Gold, Pieces of 8: Silver. Check?
"Clue 7: All of these coins were struck after 1300 AD" Check.
"Clue 8 is out there, by the way.": Pieces of 8, out there in a shipwreck, under water maybe. Maybe.
"Clue 9:" ?
"Clue 10: The riddle has 4 key clues that make up the name of the coin." Check.

Maybe related but just a tidbit: The latest shipwreck was the recovery of the Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario.

http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-shipwreck-yields-dazzling-bounty-224443515.html

It carried Pieces of 8 among other treasures.

---> Spanish Doubloon or Pieces of 8 from a Shipwreck!

That's all I got. My brain hurts.  :x

[edited]

Wow...you rest that brain but that is some super investigative work.

Clue 6 (to this riddle): The coin was only ever made in one metal.

Anything with a bit of history behind it.
Hinweis 9

Цитата: bam777Wow...you rest that brain but that is some super investigative work.

Heh, yeah. It's what I do best tho. Analytical type.  I can over-analyze just about anything. Sometimes it gets me places.  

Цитата: torontokubaClue 6 (to this riddle): The coin was only ever made in one metal.

Anything with a bit of history behind it.
Hinweis 9

Hmmm, OK.  Edit time. Pieces of 8 were made from silver.  Spanish doubloons out of Gold.

Is there clue 9 on his blog? I saw "Hinweis 9: Es ist grosse münze." which translates to "Note 9: It is big coin."

If it is, and the German is a clue in itself, I may have just been shot out of the water from one of those Spanish Galleon cannons.

We'll see I guess.

Цитата: Diego KnyteI saw "Hinweis 9: Es ist grosse münze." which translates to "Note 9: It is big coin."

I saw this briefly on his profile page...

"Anything with a bit of history behind it.
Hinweis 9"

Is the coin made from steel with a zinc coating, just like most drains?

Ike dollar?

India cash found on the Admiral Gardener lay sank for 170 something years; that or it's the shilling struck only in silver which is commonly found on the Association which went down by the Scilly Isles !

Guinea

Цитата: manxcat12A coin to find:

"Oww! Your new drain gave me an electric shock!"
"I know, it's very dodgy, but it only cost a dollar"

 

Clues will given when necessary.
Good luck.

Drain =Plastic
electric shock =shock when you use it
dodgy=may bounce
cost dollar=cost about 50c to make

   MASTERCARD

ya I win        

Still no solution.  

Clue 11: 005-183-151-560

Clue 12: Someone has been close, and it made the bishop jealous.

austrian 4 ducats FJI

No.

Clue 13 (very helpful): The coin name is made of synonyms or similarly related words to 4 words from the riddle.

Цитата: manxcat12Clue 13 (very helpful): The coin name is made of synonyms or similarly related words to 4 words from the riddle.

gosh  you should have written in the title: "for native English speakers only! - rest, stay away!"

just to make myself happy: this surely NOT the Romanian Bani, yeah, bingo, I am very very very very very right!

CLOACIN...?



Obv: CONCORDIA Veiled and diad. head of Concordia right star below chin.  
Rev: L. MVSSIDIVS LONGVS Shrine of Venus Cloacina consisting of circular

In Roman mythology, Cloacina (Latin, cloaca: "sewer" or "drain") was the goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima the main sewer drain in Rome.

Цитата: manxcat12Clue 7: All of these coins were struck after 1300 AD.

Unlikely, Kuba, but it is a lovely guess. . maybe it has something to do with that Pilsudski moustache on your avatar

Anyone has the phonenumber of Hercule Poirot?

Цитата: imrehUnlikely, Kuba, but it is a lovely guess.
Anyone has the phonenumber of Hercule Poirot?

Trafalgar 8137

leeuwendaalder

Цитата: bam777Trafalgar 8137

really?

and Sherlock's?

Цитата: imreh

Цитата: bam777Trafalgar 8137

really?

and Sherlock's?

I'm afraid there is no mention of Sherlock's telephone number as it was never given...however...you could try 221b Baker Street's telephone number.

Cash ?

No good answers.

"Oww! Your new drain gave me an electric shock!"
"I know, it's very dodgy, but it only cost a dollar"

Clue 1: The answer is not dollar.
Clue 2 : The riddle, once solved, gives the name of the coin (as opposed to giving pieces of information about the coin.)
Clue 3: The answer is an officially issued coin sharing its name with the currency it belongs to.
Clue 4: The coin (and currency) is no longer legal tender.
Clue 7: All of these coins were struck after 1300 AD.
Clue 8: The coin was only ever made in silver.
Hinweis 9: Es ist ein grosse münze.
Clue 11: 005-183-151-560.
Clue 12: Someone made a good guess, and it made the bishop jealous.
Clue 13: The coin name is made of synonyms or similarly related words to 4 words from the riddle.

The missing clues there have been made obsolete.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15694.html - Daler sounds like dollar. It isn't a dollar. Shocking with Jupiter's lightning bolts.

No, it doesn't work out with all the clues.  

Is it a Thaler?

No, not thaler.

How about Gulden?

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces30087.html

maybe

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces39614.html

I am going to throw in a second guess. I will go with a 1 Conventionsthaler from German States. Only ever made from silver. Made after 1300AD. Explains why clue 9 is in German. For clue 11: 183, 151, 560 are KM numbers for types of 1 Conventionsthalers. People were close because they said thaler.

Spanish eight-reales coin

Guldengroschen or half Guldengroschen

Цитата: elvis123I am going to throw in a second guess. I will go with a 1 Conventionsthaler from German States. Only ever made from silver. Made after 1300AD. Explains why clue 9 is in German. For clue 11: 183, 151, 560 are KM numbers for types of 1 Conventionsthalers. People were close because they said thaler.

Yes! Well done!

"Oww! Your new drain gave me an electric shock!"
"I know, it's very dodgy, but it only cost a dollar"

Dodgy   Drain   Electric  Dollar

Con      Vent     Ions      Thaler = Conventionsthaler!

That's great!

Can we still make random guesses?  

Go ahead, and enjoy it!  

Well done Elvis. Those did suspiciously look like KM#'s and def from something Germanic with that 1 clue.

Well played.

Цитата: manxcat12Dodgy   Drain   Electric  Dollar

Con      Vent     Ions      Thaler = Conventionsthaler!

Very misleading that you discredited "thaler" so many times. Could have said, "luke warm" at least.

Цитата: manxcat12Clue 13 (very helpful): The coin name is made of synonyms or similarly related words to 4 words from the riddle.

Synonyms in which dictionary? Vent and drain or dodgy and con are similarly related? I'll give you thaler, but you voided that several times. The rest are not synonyms.

Цитата: manxcat12Clue 2 (amended): The riddle, once solved, gives the name of the coin (as opposed to giving pieces of information about the coin)

What is the solution to the riddle, I still do not see one. Was it even a riddle?

Цитата: manxcat12...keep trying, or maybe persist, continue, persevere or strive for the answer.
Which incidentally is Clue 5.

How is this related?

Цитата: manxcat12Clue 10: The riddle has 4 key clues that make up the name of the coin.

None of the 4 clues made up the name of the coin. Some other 4 words, not synonyms, made up the name.

Never again.

Congrats to elvis123.

Would never have got that glad I have up ! Lol

Thaler was not the correct answer.
Vent and drain are synonyms as verbs.
The solution is conventionsthaler, that is the name of the coin.
Clue 5 was hinting at the solving method.
The riddle has 4 key clues, that when solved, make up the name of the coin. The point of a clue is surely to solve it?

Цитата: manxcat12Thaler was not the correct answer.
Vent and drain are synonyms as verbs.
The solution is conventionsthaler, that is the name of the coin.
Clue 5 was hinting at the solving method.
The riddle has 4 key clues, that when solved, make up the name of the coin. The point of a clue is surely to solve it?

It was part of the answer.
Your sentence has drain as a verb in it?
It wasn't a riddle. There is no solution, just four words pulled out of two sentences.
Ohhhh.
It has four words that were mostly not related to the other four words and somehow became syllables to the answer.

Better luck next time, with an actual riddle that is.

What would you call it then?

Цитата: manxcat12What would you call it then?

Two sentences, four unknown words and your imagination.

Handbags at the ready !

It was a word puzzle. Well Done!

Well done Elvis and cheers manx for the quiz

I think somebody is a bit bitter they didn't get it.

there were four key words, they don't need to be used that same way in the sentence as in the answer.  It's a cryptic clue.  I was never any good at them, I prefer normal crosswords, but my mother rocks the cryptic crossword in the newspaper inside 5 minutes.  I'm still amazed at people that can think that way.

Well,

it is nice to see that the riddle has been solved and the winner will get the prize. I am sorry that I was close, but this definitely is only for English as a native speakers to be played.

And regarding the clues, only the last ones were a little helpful....I think the most helpful clue was my Thaler answer :)

Anyway was nice to play, maybe in the future would enjoy similar games, but a little more suitable even to non native English speakers.

Цитата: manxcat12Still no good answers. Dr. Math, you've found one of the red herrings.

Clue 3: The answer is an officially issued coin sharing its name with the currency it belongs to.

And yes, I did write this riddle.

IT'S DOLLAR.

Цитата: Diego KnyteIs there clue 9 on his blog? I saw "Hinweis 9: Es ist grosse münze." which translates to "Note 9: It is big coin."

If it is, and the German is a clue in itself, I may have just been shot out of the water from one of those Spanish Galleon cannons.

We'll see I guess.

WAIT. THE CLUE IS IN GERMAN. = COIN IS GERMAN.

I made that post before I read that the winning coin was German...
YAY FOR ME.