Arise, All Ye Modern Collectors and Stem The Tide of The Onslaught of The Ancient Fellows

He may have weird hair but at least he's not in bed with ramps.

 

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Maybe we just need more interesting posts. That statement is directed at YOU!

 

Interesting, and they're Widow Mites too, lowest/cheapest kind of ancients you can buy. Way overpriced!

 

Maybe we just need more interesting posts. That statement is directed at YOU!

If you mean me it's an inside joke that would take 20 minutes to explain. A few bots and surfers will be amused.

Suffice to say my avatar depicts how the pyramids were really built and they didn't need no stinkin' aliens and no stinkin' ramps.

"Old" and "ancient" are relative terms and to me even ancient coins are very new fangled.

334a. N. has passed by his broad-house; the fury of the great sea has avoided him.
334b. His fare is not accepted in the great ship;

Now that's old!

 

Specialized forums are great for archiving, but I suspect most members check the new posts for most and the subforums only if they are searching for some info or catching up on previous threads. I just keep hitting new posts and if the subject interests me, I read it, If you want a medal/token section start a thread with that as the first words. " Medal/Token : Does anyone have any info on a 1918 Flu token?", it makes searching so much easier and not as crass as many " I have a jefferson with fleas! What is it worth" type of title. I do not expect more subdividing into forums.

 

The bulk of my collection is exonumia - I have a little over 200 military trade tokens, lots of challenge coins, and some medals. I say this so you know where my heart is. I do not think exonumia - at this point - needs it's own category. The ancients only got their own category once the World section became too crowded with Ancients' posts. It only happened after a long period of regular posting. Maybe if such activity occurred in the Coin Chat area where exonumia posts were so many and going on for so long could I see it happening. Besides, non collectors and new collectors probably won't know what exonumia is anyway and will end up posting in What it's Worth? or Coin Chat because they don't know what exonumia is.

 

I know what you mean. I suggested to a new poster to put his thread on tokens in exonumia. He had no idea what I was talking about. He asked if I suggested Exon tokens but said there was no such forum.

 

@leaconcen

There's a an Exonumia thread in Coin Chat.

 

Having most medals shown here in one thread makes it
1. impossible for the powers that be to see what the interest is
2. Very difficult for anyone interested to find a specific medal.

It is better to show different medals in its own thread or at least grouped with like medals or tokens.

Sorry Ken for hijacking your thread a bit.

 

I think the interest is too small for any specific medal. It would get a couple likes, a bit of discussion, then fall off the radar. Maybe if the original poster made a post like "Post your Medallic Arts Co. Medals here." Exonumia is very broad in subjects but not very deep. Mintages of any specific piece is significantly smaller than coins and in some cases the piece is unique.

About searching - Google search is quite powerful (no sarcasm). When I searched the token that is my current avatar, hit #2 was my CoinTalk post about it and #3 was a link to my CoinTalk gallery. It's actually surprising how many times I use Google for something numismatic and end up here. There are advanced search options in Google to limit results to a specific webpage. When I do it for military trade token I get specific forum entries relating to the search.

 

As you must guess by now, I collect historic medals not repos or modern day. Mainly I collect pre 1900. This area is very broad. I can see making threads about so called dollars, Betts medals, exposition medals, Lovett medals and so on. Actually to me saying medalic art medals is too broad and cuts through many categories. One thing for sure though one thread showing most medals and tokens definitely does not show the breadth of the subject. It tends to hide and obscure it.

 

Agreed. The exonumia thread is fun but not very serious. It's more like "Hey check out what I just got" than anything else. What's kind of cool is for those who keep up with it, conversations pop up then die down in it.

I bet you have a stunning collection...would love to see it!

 

The coins on the Dark-Side are pretty cool ...




.... "and" we have cookies

=> the more, the merrier!!

 

The coffee holds out all day but if you want cookies you have to arrive early.

 

I can't seem get away from this thing. It's that cursed purple stamp in the lower right. It's a tall ship and the stamp commemorates the 300th anniversary of New York. I just can't throw it away. I just lay there, starring at it for hours on end.

I fear the worse: that I may be a latent stamp collector.

 

Don't know what that one is, but the Spirit of 76 set would be cool if they didn't rip off the drummer boy. It should be a three stamp block.

 

I like ancients but I can't afford them. Any of the nice ones I like are $$$$$. So I stick with my coins. Maybe it's just collectors of US coins. I don't see a lot of arguing about World coins.

 

Of course you don't. It's all part of the master plan to over throw us with politeness.

 

Don't you guys have some hairlines to bicker about?