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Pillar of the Community
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Before the founding of CCF in 2005 where did the coin collecting community hang out online to discuss their shiny metal discs? Any long lost websites that have been forgotten to time? Where did you start?
CCF was my first numismatic themed forum that I felt the need to join back in 2012. I had lurked on a few others forums but thought that this community was the most friendly and welcoming so I logged in.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Yahoo used to allow groups but they were so prone to spam that most moderators, myself included, spent more time killing spam than moderating.
Eventually they allowed mods to pre-approve candidates to the forum, but by then most subscribers had turned off subscriptions because of the spam.
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Moderator
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It was Usenet, rec.collecting.coins, but I had quit using that a long, long time before I found CCF.
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Pillar of the Community
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Before 2005?
Those were dark times indeed.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Compuserve had a coin board back in 1980. I was a member of that.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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BIX had one too
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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United States
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I forgot about the one at CompuServe. Fun fact, since I already had the account, CIS was my first dialup ISP. My first email address was 7xxxx.xxxx at compuserve.com. Oh, good times.
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Pillar of the Community
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Did those sites have active communities on the scale of CCF for coin collecting?
Would be cool to go through the archives of early coin forums to see what the popular topics of the day were back in the 80's and 90's and how the hobby has evolved.
Thanks for the comments.
Edited by Joe2007
12/26/2016 10:33 pm
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Did those sites have active communities on the scale of CCF for coin collecting Not really, at least from what I remember. I spent more time on local BBSs, so those were my yardstick for what an online community should be. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well, I was 3... sooooooo, I guess Sesame Street.coins.com?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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I started, as far as I can tell, on Coined For Money way back in 2009. Not really a forum, just a convenient site to ask about coins. A quote from my first post (October 5, 2009): Quote:
I also have a coin that reads "One Dollar", seems to be American, has a picture of some strange woman and - strangest of all - is brown. What is it and is it real? (The date is in the 2000s.) That looks surprisingly funny now that I actually know what a Sacagawea dollar is (if anyone here still remembers that story, yes, it's the same coin I found on a couch). My first actual coin forum was CCF (lurking since 2011, registered since 2012). |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Dustin and January, thanks for the  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I was amazed that no one mentioned the PCGS or NGC websites. They used to both have forums but not sure they still do.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yes they still do, and they did exist pre-2005, but I don't consider them to be in the catagory with the "real old" ones and the Bulletin Board Syatems from back in the early 80's. CoinTalk is also an older modern forum. I'm one of the first members from there (member #25 I believe) and that was 2002.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I wanted to join coin forums way back when I first started coin collecting. However, computers hadn't been invented yet. |
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Posted 12/24/2016 11:42 pm
