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• The staff reserves the right to remove anything we deem unacceptable.

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• Opinions posted by our members in response to questions are exactly that...opinions. Opinions expressed by individual members do not necessarily reflect the views held by Coin Community, its administrators, or its moderators. Coin Community cannot be held responsible for acting on our members' advice.
  

Memberships can be locked for violations of the forum rules.

This may be a permanent locking for serious (usually repeat) violations. More likely it would be temporary to give you a chance to read the rule in question, then you would be reinstated.

Reason or duration notwithstanding, registering under a different ID to circumvent the suspension may result in permanent banning from the site.

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• Note: All avatars and signatures are subject to approval and removal by the staff at any time.

If you are a new member, please refrain from posting external links right away, live or static, unless you have prior approval from the staff. Stick around and get to know everyone first. This will avoid any confusion about your intentions. Good thing come to those who wait.

The posting of external links by new members (under 50 posts) is tightly monitored for...

• Drive-By Links: Promotion by new members of other sites. These type links are sometimes very obvious, sometimes they are not. We are not a free advertising site, so if you are here to advertise please click here. Please do not be offended if you have a link removed. It's not personal.


• Profile Links: Search engines are blocked from member profiles, so if you are thinking of signing up just to get a back link in your profile, keep moving and don't waste our time and yours. It will be worthless.

• You must have at least 50 quality* posts and have been a member for at least 14 days to post anything involving buying, selling, or trading. This applies to any forum at all, not just the Buy/Sell/Trade forums. Established members may not make any reference to a new member under 50 posts involving buying, selling or trading.


• Auction bids must all be posted on this forum in the auction topic before the auction is over or they are not valid. There will be no secret email bids or bids from other forums posted here. The bid must be placed here, in public view, by a qualifying member of Coin Community or it is not valid.


• All non-auctions must have a clear price posted. No "make an offer" sales are permitted. Firm prices only. If you want offers, run an auction.


• Charity sales of any type must have prior approval from the Staff.


• All transactions made on or initiated from the forum are 100% the responsibility of the members involved. Coin Community is merely a venue for the transaction and assumes no responsibility whatsoever. Trade, buy, and sell at your own risk.


• Posting or sharing the personal information collected during a transaction with another member without express permission from that member is a significant breach of trust and security and is strictly forbidden.


• The Staff reserves the right to pull any buy, sell, or trade reference at any time for any reason without consequence.

We have many forums to choose from that are broken down in to categories. Posting your topic in the most appropriate forum will get the best results.

Occasionally the staff may move a topic to a different forum. These decisions are based on experience and will most likely get your topic more attention. If your topic is moved the forum will send you an email letting you know.

Images are permitted in posts within reason. Obviously photos of coins involved in the topic are always allowed and encouraged. Extraneous animated images other than the occasional smiley, happy birthday image, or similar are frowned upon and subject to removal.

Although you may use Imageshack to host your images linking directly to Imageshack pages is not permitted. See this Imageshack topic to learn how to make them appear directly in your post.

All affiliate links**, and redirections to affiliate links, must be property of Coin Community. No other affiliate links are allowed in posts, signatures, or profiles. No exceptions. Immediate and permanent banning could occur depending on the severity and deception involved in the posting of these links.

** affiliate links - In affiliate programs, it's a special URL that contains the ID or username of the affiliate to receive compensation. This URL is used by the advertiser to track all traffic the affiliate sends to the advertiser's site as a part of the affiliate program.

The title of your topic is very important. Let's say you need help attributing an 1896 Morgan Dollar....

• Bad: Need help with coin


• Better: Need help with Morgan Dollar


• Good: Need help with 1896 Morgan Dollar


• Awesome: Need help with VAM on 1896 Morgan Dollar

We have a spell checker that works fantastic with at least Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Mozilla browsers. When posting, it's right above the post box. Give it a click before submitting, it only takes a few seconds.

Cross Posting - Please do not post the same topic in multiple forums. Pick the one that you think best fits your topic. If the staff feels that it belongs in a different forum, they will move it. You may also contact a staff member to suggest the topic be moved.

Sign Posting - Topics like "Please see my auctions in the auction forum" posted in the Main Coin Forum are not allowed.

We are all volunteers here at Coin Community. So please give your question some time to be answered.

Please use paragraphs. It is extremely difficult to read very long blocks of text on a computer screen. It's OK if you're not a grammatical guru and split them in the wrong places, just break it up some please.

Do not post in all capital letters. This is the Internet equivalent of yelling and is very annoying to most people.

Please do not use it here. Example: How are u? Please save that for IM and text messaging and use full text here.