@Randy Abercrombie reposted his first thread this morning and made me wonder. I have problems believing this was my first, but here goes. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-trip-to-the-royal-canadian-mint.258017/ Repost your first CT thread. Lets see where we came from.
Well…. see if this did it. I found the thread…. I can read this and see that I learned more in my five years here than I did the previous forty odd years on my own. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/seeking-spanish-cob-knowledge.311501/
Circa 16-1/2 years ago…. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-member-greetings-salutations-fellow-numismatists.15719/
Interesting thread - my first ever thread from September 2008 in the Introductions forum. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/that-new-user-smell.41082/ I have no memory whatsoever of making that post, but it led to a whole series of obsessions: US, medieval, hammered, Roman, Japanese Byzantine, Greek... according to the thread, I made a few posts before this one, but this was the first thread I ever created.
This wasn't exactly my first post on CT but it's pretty dang close to it. I'd been a member for 8 days when I posted this. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/time-for-a-change-in-our-change.170/
Boy ! I having a hard time imagining you went through all those clicks to find that ! Or did you figure out some shortcut to doing so ?
Here was my first, I was lurking in the shadows for a little while. When you find that First undeniable DDO! | Coin Talk
Well that was fun trip back in time. Apparently I joined 30July2014, but didn't make a post until 4May2016 (May the Fourth be with you!). In this thread. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/100-000-yen.278182/#post-2412731 Someone was asking about the old Japanese 100K gold commem. There had been concerns raised about 'too many' on the secondary market and the government suspected counterfeits (there is a NYTimes article linked but it now resides behind a paywall). Some British dealer was accused. But given the price of gold, the face value, and likely redemptions there were many on the market. Ultimately the story poofed away with signs of a non-disclosure settlement (including the British dealer remaining quite active and having been reimbursed for some coin seizures). My speculation is the Japanese government had to to reimburse him and everything locked behind walls of non-disclosure to save face. My first ever post was on 25Jul2016 a cross posting here, NGC, and PCGS boards asking about the old INA patterns. So two years for an actual topic and information was gained in minutes. Kind of funny to look at this. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spinks-retro-patina-collection-information-requested.281696/
Yea and he’s still making up rules. But great to have someone who can still tell us about dinosaurs and things
It actually wasn't that many clicks. I had to click on the last available page several times as well as older posts after that until I finally got to his first. It took no more than a few minutes.