New Guy Checking In

**SlipMahoney** · 11-23-2008 06:48 PM

I ran across this site while searching for some info about Jimmy Gerstel, a coin dealer I surfed across on television the other day.

I've been collecting, on and off, for about 13 years after ordering the 1995 Special Olympics World Games Dollar from the mint. I was coordinator of our county's Special Olympics group at the time. Since then, I've gathered some interesting coins, to me, anyway and the forum seemed like a great place to learn more about those coins, so here I am. I figured, if the collection keeps growing, by the time our grandson, now 7, is old enough for college, he might be able to afford a semester or two. Click here to enlarge

I'm glad to be here and looking forward to paticipating in the forum.

Rick

**fastfun1111** · 11-23-2008 07:12 PM

Hello,
Welcome to Coin Talk.

**der_meister77** · 11-23-2008 07:26 PM

Welcome to the forum!

**jazzcoins** · 11-23-2008 07:40 PM

Well out of all the forums i;ve been too this is the one to be a member and gather all the knowledge you need.

Jazzcoins joe Click here to enlarge

**Hobo** · 11-23-2008 08:13 PM

Welcome aboard, Rick. You can learn a LOT here.

**rzage** · 11-23-2008 08:16 PM

Welcome to CT , I've learned more here in 8 months than in 45 years of collecting by myself .
rzage

**Tater** · 11-24-2008 01:22 AM

welcome to the club.

**kidromeo** · 11-24-2008 02:15 AM

Hello Rick... Click here to enlarge

Welcome to Coin Talk... Click here to enlarge

**dready** · 11-24-2008 06:16 AM

Welcome.............John

**De Orc** · 11-24-2008 07:53 AM

Hi Rick welcome to CoinTalk Click here to enlarge

**SlipMahoney** · 11-24-2008 10:45 AM

Thanks for the welcome y'all. I've been going through the forum and saw collectors from around the world too. That's great, because I've managed to gather a few foreign coins from my time in the Navy, and by accident too. My latest one was a Costa Rican 5 Colones I found laying on a gas pump a couple months ago. Surprises like that make me wish coins could talk. I know they'd have some interesting stories to tell.