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What other coin collecting forums are you on? Why are they better or worse?

 

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Only this one and it’s great!

 

I like the PCGS site, but info gets a little slim. I check in on CCF, but a few loonies there.

 

I'm on the NGC and PCGS sites, plus a couple other, but I spend the majority of my coin time here on CT and Discord. I find them the most user friendly for me.

 

This site is my home base. It's also the most friendly.
I go to other sites and read more than I post.

 

I pretty much stick to this one and the PCGS one: https://forums.collectors.com/categories/u-s-coin-forum

I always intend on visiting other ones, but never seem to get around to it:
https://boards.ngccoin.com/forum/3-ngc-forums/
https://www.money.org/forums/
https://www.coinpeople.com/

Maybe I should put that on my To-Do list. But, I like it here.

 

I was on CU for a while but got banned along with Roger Burdette for criticizing their designation of a 1942 experimental cent as "high relief", and their subsequent deletion of the entire discussion. I thought it was pretty immature, but you don't criticize PCGS on their forum. Lesson learned.

I was on CCF for a long time but don't go there anymore for reasons. NGC is dominated by a couple of jerks and I don't go there anymore either. There are a lot of useful posts but wading through all the extraneous crap was too much effort for me. CT is the only place I hang out now. There are other more specific forums but they don't seem to get much traffic.

 

I am on PCGS and NGC. I used to be on another one, but they did away with my ability to post pictures, so I have not been back. I have spent some time on the CAC site, but those guys are mostly interested in promoting CAC and making money.

I won't say that I'm not interested in the value of coins, but it's not the whole deal for me, and the "How can I make money in coins?" questions get old for me very fast.

I like this one best of all.

 

I prefer CT and a couple of FB groups but that's about it.

 

You learn to pull your punches on CU if you hope to stay. I think Roger Burdette is one of the best numismatic authors around. He’s been very supportive of my educational efforts. Banning him from a site is a big mistake.

 

Just this one. I have posted on NGC a couple times but that was mainly to ask direct questions of them….. I think CT has the most varied collection of folks that are super knowledgeable in their respective areas of interest. And I enjoy the zeal the younger members have.

 

I've been avoiding the place recently because modern coins are too political. You can talk about the problems in the 1850's but if anyone is still alive it's "political". I log in once in a while and will probably go back and post a lot less.

The problem is mostly the modern age. The whole world has jumped the shark and everyone is hypersensitive. I only intended to stay away for a month but I must be more sensitive than I had thought. It was such a great place ten or twenty years ago. Of course it was too wild in those days. Many great posters have been banned. Most for good reasons but some for little or no apparent reason. One poster was banned because he edited a mostly innocuous post in a very ugly thread. People shouldn't post in ugly threads but this was extreme.

 

I have met Roger and see him at dinner regularly. He really is as sharp as they come and a great guy!

 

If you are a big customer, you get a lot of leeway. After a big customer personally attacked me for months because I wouldn’t give CAC a full throated endorsement, they emailed me to put her on “ignore” and ride it out. If anyone who wasn’t a big customer had acted that way, he or she would have been banned in short order.

It amazed me that anyone would ever be that concerned about my numismatic opinions and influence. In a world of mostly guppies, I am a slightly larger than average carp.

 

Lucky you!

 

10 plus years on CoinauctionsHelp.com Forum.
4 +years on CoinTalk (my 2nd home, scratch that, my 3rd home)(Maine is my 2nd home). LOL.

 

VAMWorld, where I'm the site admin, and PCGS. I lurk on the CAC forums now and then.

 

As a guppy, it was an eye-opening experience for me. I had no idea who Roger was at the time, and when I was banned, the president accused me of being in some sort of conspiracy with Roger. That part was bizarre. It was a big fish who had submitted the 1942 experimental cent, and they made a media splash about this "one-of-a-kind high relief" Lincoln. I presented image evidence that it had the same microscopic features as many circulation 1942 cents and was likely just from a fresh pair of working dies they used to test aluminum (right or wrong, who knows, but still). I also posted evidence that it was the same dies used on a second experimental cent. Roger, the author of the book on all of the 1942 experimental cents, was not consulted before their designation, and maybe got too heated. He was put in purgatory, and then poof, banned with no second chance. Meanwhile, they deleted the entire 16+ page thread on the topic, after putting it in "do not bump to recent posts" mode. Admittedly that angered me, because I'd spent a lot of time researching, and it was all gone. I mentioned this again months later on another thread, and bam.

The kicker is that later, that second pattern coin was also designated as high relief. So the coin that started it all wasn't unique anymore, and somebody might have been paying attention to my posts.

I just like telling that story I guess. Each forum has its own, uh, characteristics.

 

Some things just never make sense. I have only been on coin boards for about 7 or 8 years. I would guess 90% or better of all my posts pertain strictly to coins. I try to avoid salacious, political or any other rule breaking posts unless warning a new person they are breaking said rules.
Having said that, NGC banned me about 2 months ago. I used a smartphone to check on things. they removed all my posts. My last post was a review of a new coin book.
As i said on a different board. "We are just sport fore thew Gods." James

 

Just this one