1672 Farthing, Heavy Flan.

Thanks N-N, I thought someone would see how important this is and you clearly did. Your five pound gift voucher is in the post. LOL
I do sometimes worry important posts in 'recent additions' are lost because there will be an, arguably unnecessary, JBuck 'Nice find!', 'Great addition!', 'Interesting!' comment added shortly after each post which will then sometimes mean the topics are lost in the ever expanding list.

I get it, but I think it could be argued the frequency is all a bit relentless.
It might be a good idea to think about reining it in a little.
It's simply not necessary to add an exclamation and thumbs up every time someone posts something.
Important information ends up being bumped down the list and is then in danger of being lost.

Some of these group topics have coins and comments being lost just by the frequency of images being posted.

And what it there are two coins in there that need more comment? We then risk having overlapping conversation.

The HFBCWG? topics are a prime example, moving two or three pages a day.

Even if I posted nothing at all in those topics the comments would become irrelevant rather quickly.

(By the way, this is why (most of) these topics were moved to the "Post Your..." Gallery Topics forum, where most people can just ignore them.)


Anything that merits discussion beyond the "24 hour news cycle" needs to be in its own topic. Full stop.

Yeah I get what you mean, but I think he's just trying to be encouraging and friendly to members, and I can't hate on that.

That said, I do find it unfortunate that coins like this can be completely ignored on here, whereas minor double dies get at the very least a 4 or 5 replies.

But I suppose it all comes down to what the most amount of people are interested in. Not to mention I'm sure if this was a .UK site, it would be the opposite.

And hey, look at it like this, the less people interested in a certain area of coins, the easier it'll likely be to cherry pick.

The issue of the "thumbs up" messages clogging up the threads would be resolved if this forum had a "Like" system, similar to that available on most other forums. Is this not possible here?

That's a great idea Paddy!

It may be technically possible and it has been suggested at least once or twice, but our staff discussions always conclude the forums would lose more value than would be added. Full disclosure, I have been generally against it, but having a perpetually open mind means I will listen to new arguments.




Hasty or not, I believe all suggestions and ideas worth discussing. We do not know until we put it out there.



We can now return to giving this coin the proper discussion it deserves.