Am I Becoming A .........darksider

Andrew289 I would suggest you take a loooooooong hard look at world coins, both past and present, before you refer to them a junk again. Beauty, art, history and culture awaits you and, for the most part, you won't find much of that on U.S. coins in the last 4 decades. I wasted almost 30 years turning my nose up to the Darkside and deeply regret that mistake. The internet has opened up unlimited opportunities in numismatics, not to mention huge buying, selling and trading opportunities world wide! await The force is strong as the ranks of the Darkside grow with every passing day. If nothing else take a walk thru ebay to see the value and beauty so many are missing. You will learn history that was never taught in school and find art and beauty being minted all over the world. There is NO end to what you are missing! Take it from someone who used to be just like you!

thank you for all of the helpful suggestions. That is a very shiny coin.

First, Snooba and Twokopeiki, wow, great coins. Yes, RenaL, it is much better in hand. Stratocaster is right, I need to work on lighting and light angle. Prethen,. Crystalk64, I am starting to feel the same way, all because of my exposure here on the forum. I felt the same as Andrew in the beginning. And Andrew, I hear you, but I think just maybe someones and being a little bit of a . I have to agree with you, though, they might have found something slightly better thatn a gold nugget for the reverse. Anyway thanks all for your thought. Man who knows, the next thing might be becoming a ......... a........ a ......Knight.
Jim

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I might suggest the use of some emoticons in future posts.

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I tried but they don't seem to have the one I was looking for.

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What are they, anyway?

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I dunno, but I'm the Emoticon Police, and I've had my finger poised over the Lock button on this thread all day. I've already ripped one set of posts out of it today.

I'm thinking that some of our membership has forgotten what this forum is about. There are comments in this thread which are at the absolute outside limit of what will be tolerated.

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My family is traced back to the Mayflower so this is all I've known

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Hi andrew

my family is also traced back on my mom's side to the mayflower ,, its cool to know someone else who has that lineage back to such an amazing group of people .Maybe one day we can compare notes its more than likely our ancestors knew one another .

Now what country was that which claimed this contenient ?

Im pretty sure that at that time there was no US coinage,, that did not take place until well into the 18th century up until that time we had circulating coinage from very many different countries ,,Ireland ,england ,france,Mexico to name but a few ,,these coins continued to circulate for sometime after the US started making its own coins well up and through the civil war times,,now its very true that a person should have pride in their own countries coinage,,but to have a true reflection of our History as a nation ,, many other countries have also been contributors .

Metalman

Let's stop the bickering and baiting and concentrate on what this thread is really about:

Jim is feeling the pull of the DarkSide

Welcome, Jim!

~Roman

Thanks Forum Mom for the explanation.

I did a search for the word junk and I was surprised to see that the membership has been using the word quite frequently to disparage many collectors interests for quite a while. Since I've been taken to task for using the word, this will serve as a warning to all of the membership that the "J word" is no longer welcome anymore on these pages.

I'm sorry to hear that you are reading more into my tone than is there. The written word often suffers from the lack of emphasis and inflection making e-mail and board postings sound totally different than ones speaking voice. Meanings are often taken the wrong way.

I admit that I did get a little curt with Paulie but he made a wise crack and I only responded in my defense. I'm sorry that I overeacted to his comment.

In this day and age you can't dumb down all speech so that no one will get offended. Personally, I find it offensive that so many members constantly attack the President dollars and call them UGLY but I don't get my knickers in a wad and cry to forum moderators. Maybe I should. I think that UGLY is a disparaging term to those who work hard to collect those dollars. It's demeaning to read and makes me feel like my collection is less than worthy. Can we ban the use of the derogatory term UGLY in that instance PLEASE? It really takes a toll after a while.

If you would please take a stand for those of use who collect president dollars just like you have done today for those who collect non-US coins; I think it would be comforting to the membership. I for one would appreciate your support. I work hard on my collection and I know how low it makes you feel to get ragged on for collecting UGLY coins. I now know how the non-us coin collectors must have felt when I called the Australian nugget coin junky. It's not junky ...just not that pretty. My appologies.