Perhaps known to some, but for those who haven't seen it, Doug Winter's Rare Gold Coins' Photostream has superb images of high quality U.S. gold type coins: http://bit.ly/9pqti2 Doug Winter is a respected author and authority on U.S. gold, who also has a limited inventory on his website. I recently purchased a CC double eagle from him; highly recommended. The website: raregoldcoins.com
In addition to that, Doug makes a habit of including excellent, very well written, informative blogs on his site. I am at a loss as to the reason for the off base and rude comment by Joe.
I do computer security: there are real reasons not to click on a link if you don't know where it will go (e.g. tinyurl, bit.ly, etc.). There is, however, no reason to be shy about this link.
Sorry. I'm not familiar with the name Doug Winters, and the link looks like gibberish. But I will check it out now, after all the good word. Joe
Joe, the link looks strange because it's to a URL-shortening site. You can give a long URL to bit.ly or their competitors and get a short machine-generated URL back which will forward to the original one.
It never occurred to me that the bit.ly URL might be a problem. I'll try to remember to list the main site when I post in the future. The URL shortening helps in two ways- some links are so long that they are wrapped when using copy/paste, which occasionally causes problems. Second, without URL shortening sites like Twitter would die, or at least be severely compromised, because of post-length restrictions (I use it all the time for my metacoin news tweets). In any case, the main Doug Winter website, www.raregoldcoins.com, will lead you to most of his coin information, and hopefully my oversight won't keep anyone from enjoying that resource.
With the OP as a relatively new poster and with a link that looks like that, I understand the suspicion. I might have just phrased it a bit differently. Many viruses are started by clinking on links that launch nasty stuff. Having to reload a PC and potentially lose data just once is enough to make many skeptical of a link that looks like that. As a side note ~ Using Firefox and sandboxio can help protect yourself from these type of issues. Thanks for the link! Look forward to checking out the site.
Just so you know for future reference Joe - Doug Winters is one of the leading experts on US gold. He is an author with many books that are considered to be the definitive reference. And he is a very highly repsected coin dealer as well. I could not give anyone a higher or better recommendation than Doug Winters.
Sorry, I must disagree. But only because his name is Doug Winter, not Winters. For some reason, that is a common mistake.
