Why is everyone so tense about Clankeye's thread? May I suggest the following: Your thoughts welco

wingedliberty

Just got home from work. Read Clank's thread. If you wish to remain private
for security reasons, I can understand that. If you wish to remain private for no reason at all, I can
understand that also. If you don't stand behind what you say and change your identity for insulate
yourself from it, then we have a problem. That is my only point.

On a lighter note, If you feel like it, Lets do a social thread and form a more in depth directory.
I have a full time job that pays very well. I don't need childlike activity and pepperdoodling threads between members who have personal grievances. Everyone should lighten up. I come here to talk
about coins, but I have to say that I agree with Clank. Lets lighten up a little.
This is the worlds greatest hobby. Lets enjoy it.

I will start off the SOCIAL THREAD and tell you who I am.
If you find me and feel like taking my coins or robbing me, you're out of luck, all you will get is some
CD rom disks with images on them. My coins are in safe deposit boxes. If you think that I am David
Bowers or Rick Montgomery, you're also out of luck. I am better looking than they are.


Now can we get back to coins and stop "PEPPERDOODLING". tm. pattent pending.


Here is who I am:

Brian Ostro (I sign my post Brian)

handle: wingedliberty (Thats a fancy word for a Mercury dime)
passion: United States Federal Coinage from 1793-present. I love both classics and moderns.
other passion: wine, blondes, art (not necessarily in that order).
collection: 3199 PCGS/NGC coins..
love interest: Mrs.Coinboard(just kidding)
location: west central Florida.
goal: Peace on this "freakin" forum.

Now lets talk coins.


Brian.

wingedliberty

TTT> It got buried too quickly.


Brian.

RGL

I am just letting every insulting and/or doops thread slide on by ... peace and love and coinage, brothers and sisters! And, I, Randy Ludlow -- note to thieves: no coins of significant value at my humble abode, either -- do pledge to preserve harmony and good cheer.

LucyBop

<< <i>other passion: wine, blondes >>



Darn it!

wingedliberty

other passions: Cool chicks who wear red shorts and are into coins.


Brian.

tjkillian

I agree, let's talk coins. I love federal and confederate coinage from 1793 to 1950 but I collect all the way to 2003. My passion are type coins and indian cents. Recently I received a very nice 1906 MS-65 Red Indian cent from Shylock that is very even in color. My thought for tonight is: Is it important for non-toned coins to be very even in color to get to MS-65? All the MS-65 coins I own seem to be very even color, whether copper, silver, nickel or gold. Lower grades seem not to be even.

Tom

Russ

Threads don't make me tense. Having four submissions in right now; that makes me tense!

Russ, NCNE

coppercoins

Charles D. Daughtrey - 34 years old. Wife Evie, travel agent, Greek citizen, and this Friday will be a US citizen. Son, Michael, six years old, cute kid. He can tell you the mint that made any mint marked coin, and understands dates on coins and how old they are.

I started collecting at six, learned the same way basically that my son is now, except that I didn't have a Dad who collected coins. My dad did stamps. I collected wheats, nickels, and any silver I could find in change until I was 13. That's when I started concentrating on Lincolns only.

Years passed, and in 1999 I decided with a new acquaintance who collects earlier copper to create "coppercoins". Three years of work and a partial college education later, I have managed to build the entire site on my own, graphics and all, and enjoy being here and responding to the peaceful threads, answering people's questions, and all else coin related. Although my specialty is in Lincolns, I respect all coin collectors for what they collect, but know little about anything other than copper.

My ambition is to complete the work I have started on coppercoins, then switch my focus to indian head cents, civil war tokens, and two cent coins, while still seeking the completion of my Lincoln collection.

wingedliberty

Tom:
I agree. Even toning is awesome. Other types of toning that I like:


1.crescent
2.peripheral.
3.bullseye
4.mottled.


I am trying to say that I like toning. period.
Congrads on your new coins.

Brian.

Russ

<< <i>Greek citizen, and this Friday will be a US citizen. >>





Welcome aboard!

Russ, NCNE

LanLord

What makes me tense about Clank's thread is that it didn't address what Mrs. Coinboard did while drinking heavily all weekend.

DMWJR

I have remained silent on the poop throwing threads, and intend to stay that way.

I live in Mississippi, not far from Memphis, TN.

I love collecting and enjoy the informative threads on the boards.

I also enjoy my family and my farm, and watching my wife and three daughters show their horses in English competition.

Note to robbers: If you can find my house out in the country, there are no coins of value in my house. All you will find is a large White German Shepard, and an owner armed to the teeth. All my girls can shoot too! You will be buried in the finest of pastures on the back 40, with a silver dollar over each eye. Probably Ikes. I wouldn't waste a Morgan.

Bear

Doug, My son owns a snow white german shepherd. He is a very large animal and a

superb jumper. While he is a generally gentle animal he probably has the strongest

jaws next to a pit bull. There is nothing that he cand grind up into pieces. Great dog though,

when he is patrolling the house you sure feel safe.

nwcs

Well, I didn't read through all of the other thread. I've never kept my identity secret. My icon should also be a clue that I live in Knoxville, TN and grew up in Oak Ridge, TN. My user id here is simply my initials. I work as a computer programmer doing various internal and web projects for a big loan servicer/originator in the southeast. I don't have many coins right now, so thieves wouldn't even find them. They're so innocuous that I sometimes don't find them!

Other things I'm interested in includes:

Koine Greek
Theology
Doodling with photoshop

I'm 29 years old and not yet married, though perhaps in the next few years. I work out on a 4 day split routine with legs-back-biceps on Tues/Fri and Chest-Shoulders-Tris on Wed/Sat. There, that should sate some curiosity about me.

kaleidoscopic

I just got back on and read my old buddy Clank's thread. Everybody has their reasons for choosing to be private, or not.
There has been some bantering going on about what this, or that guy thinks.

They are entitled to it. I'm entitled to keeping my privacy. If I'm not meaningful, I might just go kill myself.

I am still very sure the Sun will rise tomorrow morning if individuals wish to remain anonymous.

The exchange of different ideas is cool.

Kscope

DMWJR

Bear, they are the sweetest dogs to their owners, and very, very protective. I have to put him up when someone comes over to the house. You are right about jumping. I put him in the feed room at the barn which has no ceiling and seven foot walls. Next thing I knew he was out. I couldn't believe it so I put him back up and stood and watched. He managed to jump up on a garbage can and get high enough to get his front paws on the top of the wall.

He is clearly the most athletic dog I have ever owned. Yes, he can shred almost anything except steel.

I sleep good when I am out of town and the family is at home with him.

keithdagen

Is someone were to fish it out, there is a thread on this board, and one on the Registry forum as well, where a lot of members have identified themselves, and many posted pics.

dakra

okay...alright. I hid my coins in the basement. It will take you hours to find them.... by then, I will be home with my shotgun

David J. Krachenfels is the name, my handle is the "Dakra", which comes from the DA in David and the KRA in Krachenfels.

As I blurted out recently in a fit of emotional stress My job was eliminated last week... Twice in a year and a half.

To help keep the family in decent financial condition, I am selling off some of my modern coin collection which includes a plether of State Quarters. The last time I was out of work for a few months, I made a decent run on selling "Basement Stuff" and probably made about $1000 a month doing so. I still have a basement full of "Basement Stuff"...so I will continue selling whatever I can (Beer Steins anyone?)

Although I always enjoyed coin collecting, I have never considered myself a die hard coin collector. I still feel that I am a newbie even though I have to analyze every coin that I come in contact with, Cherry Pick around $40 from the bank each week, spend countless hours doing "homework" and reading everything that is on this message board in hopes I can learn something new everyday. Eventually, I don't want to ask questions, I want to answer them!

I cannot afford those "old" and "Rare" coins but I enjoy collecting what I can. I am putting together a set of Lincoln Wheat/Memorial Pennies.... Partly because I want to complete a collection, Partly because I want to frame it and hang it on the wall but most of all, I want it to be part of my son's 1 year birthday. It will be his but until he can understand it, it will be framed. I want him to start coin collecting at an early age.... to help me find all the rare coins

I am also starting a Jefferson Nickle collection. This all started when I found a P- Mint 1945 Jefferson "War Nickle"... Eventually I may start a Dime and Quarter collection...

I'm starting a hoard of a certain date penny... only my wife knows what it is. I have about 1000 so far and I just need about 2 billion (maybe more) to complete the hoard. Once I completely wipe this date out of circulation, I will be naming the price!.... Okay, I just like the date and hope to collect as many as I can.

Next month I plan to snipe a JFK, in the final .0002 seconds, away from Russ...

Finally, I'm a jokester.... not sure if I'm a funny one...

-Dave

Russ

<< <i>Next month I plan to snipe a JFK, in the final .0002 seconds, away from Russ... >>



Hey!

Russ, NCNE

dakra

Geez... I checked the "Who's On" and didn't see your name... Thought I was safe for the moment.

-Dave

DMWJR

Dave, you can find many, many old Jeff's in change and rolls. It's one of the few areas where you can still find nice old coins in circulation.

DMWJR

Russ, you caught that in less than two minutes. Do you have a special program that "hears" when your name is mentioned????

littlewicher

Ok, a social thread. I guess I'll tell some stuff about me then.

My full name is Brian Thomas Wich. (BTW)

I live in Central New York. I'm a 15 year old honors student. I have a brother and a sister. I'm actively involved in the community and church. I'm the head judge of the Schuyler County Youth Court. I've been actively collecting coins for approximately three and a half years now. I currently have a job as a mailboy at a local company here.

My hobbies are: Sports (swimming, fishing, basketball, soccer, skiing, and lacrosse), coin collecting, metal detecting, hanging with my friends, making out with girls, reading, playing on the computer, doing drama and acting, and my favorite............drumroll..........playing piano. Playing piano is my number one hobby.

Future plans: Go to a well known college, get a bunch of high degrees, and possibly go in to the corporate business world, or become a professional music artist or songwriter.

That pretty much sums it up for me.

anoldgoat

Hi,
Not sure i ever posted on this board before, been on the sports card mb for a bit.

This thread caught my eye because it reminded be of anouther board i used frequent. Banter and plain chit-chat mixed in with good questions and answers on the board's subject. the other mb, granturismo.com, has gotton too narrow with its subtopics and lost community feel.

Anyways, I got back in to Lincoln cent collecting within the past 6 months. I collected as a pre teen to when i was 25 or so (52 now). I had some decent coins, 1909-s, a 1922-barily visable D. Whole collection, include some decrnt mercuy's and quarters were stolen in 1986.
A short story ase too what got me into collecting. When i was 6 or 7 i found a fairly shiny penny. I thought it was counterfit, all the text and date, 1955, was doubled. I walked up to a bubble gum machine, looked around, put then penny in, then a big big turn and ran. I musta of gotten 7,8 pieces of gum and toys, for a counterfit penny at that. Any ways when i looked in my brothers blue book a couple years later I was hooked. And vowed i'd never spend counterfit money again.

Live in silicon valley, programmer (probably knew that by my spelling), love my wife, my grand children and like beer, college basketball, college football.


mike

cladking

Welcome to the coin boards Anotheroldgoat... er ah Anoldgoat: Your thoughts welcomed.

DesertLizard

Name: Smith N. Wesson
Home: Indian Wells, CA
Hobby: Staying Vertical, golf, coins, government watchdog
Other: I collect mostly MS/PR gold, dabble with a few other series.
Fav Quotes: "I did not sleep with that woman..." and " Coins are not an investment..."
Biggest Faults: Pathological liar [not true], give away lots of money to kids who ring my doorbell, eat too much sugar

BASEagle

Greetings from Germantown TN. Long time lurker, infreqent poster. Noticed that there are several TN people on board. Collect mainly Indian Head Cents and Large cents, but have a little of everything, silver dollars, gold, commemoratives, proof sets.

Re: my handle - my college team is the U of Southern Miss Golden Eagles and BAS means Big Athletic Supporter.

Re: dogs - we have a blue tickeagle who would probably kiss any prowler to death.

Reading this board has given me a desire to attend one of the large showsconventions, like FUN or Long Beach. Maybe I'll save up my allowance and go and get to meet some of the people on the board.



Mike Moore

other famous Mike Moores
the nut case Michael Moore who wrote "Stupid White Men".
The attorney general of Mississippi is named Mike Moore.
Remember the earthquake during the world series in San Francisco, back around 1987? Mike Moore was the pitcher.
The best rodeo clown I ever saw was named Mike Moore.

Other interests: joking around, tennis, sometimes simultaneously.

Zerbe

After reading this post and Clankeyes, I observed almost all coin collectors own large dogs and large guns. I don't think anybody mentioned a burglar alarm. My alarm consists of leaving an open window in my basement. When the theif climbs in, he is trapped in a room and I broadcast over a loudspeaker, all of the pepperdoodle threads over and over and over.

ccrdragon

My stats:

40 (but not much longer)
Software Engineer - Mainframe database conversions
Married with 4 children (the newest is only 7 months old).
Home - Arlington, TX

There are no coins of value in the house, but burglars are always welcome (dog food is expensive!) I have a mutt that is a cross between a Rottweiller and a Lab (looks a lot like a Rott but much smaller). Gentlest dog you have ever known as long as he knows you, but if he doesn't, look out!

I collect Indian head pennies, Buffalo nickels, state quarters, ASE's and a whole bunch of darkside stuff.

Cecil Rickard

dorkkarl

sorry, but i'm keeping my i.d. private. then again, i've never claimed to be anything more than a nobody

i witnessed a robbery once (non-fatal stabbing), yes it was w/ regards to coins. therefore, i have no interest in taking chances beyond an anonymous forum handle. if it really disturbs enough folks, i'm willing to forego future posting on this forum so as not to make anyone uncomfortable.

K S

Clankeye

You know, this whole thing got so blown out of porportion. I will state one last time. I was talking about TROLL accounts and new identites that have been created to come to the forum for the sole purpose of denigrating other people and causing mayhem. Am I the only one that saw this happening in the last few weeks?

I'm sorry that so many of you good and regular members seemed to think it was a demand that you come forward and post your identities. That's not what it was about. It was about asking the very few--the very few--who use the forum IMO wrongly to stand behind what they do.

I just don't seem to be getting this across and I fear that nobody has read the ending posts I made in the other thread. At any rate, I apologized to those who feel aggrieved personally by what I said. If you want to keep focusing on the idea that everyone should have to reveal their identites because Clankeye said so... that just isn't my point. Darn, I wish I'd said it better in the beginning. Or better yet, not at all.

Carl

dorkkarl

hey carl, gotta admit i didn't read the "other" thread 1st.

heeeeyyyyy . . . . . . . . wait - a - minute . . . . . . .

who you callin' a troll, hmmmmm???

K S

Zerbe

Clankeye I knew right away what you were trying to get across; new accounts to stir up trouble. It goes to show how almost any thread can take off on a different tangent, or be missconstrued.
Zerbe

coinrookie

Steve from VA.
Modern proofs and modern ms coins(1900-present, will
eventually acquire a handful of 1800s coins)
Classic cars and motorcycles
Low paying sucky construction job(so I have to spend smart)
1/18 scale die cast cars and aircraft.
Tropical fish
Love flying and racing computer simulations
I have no reason to hide my identity other than the fact that my questions show my lack of knowledge, so sometimes it would be nice to remain unknown. But on a brighter note, I am learning and have learned alot from these boards.

halfnut

O-kay here goes

Dan Fales

Norfolk Va

Active Duty Navy ( 19 years now ) as an Enginman, you name it and have worked on it.

I work at Paxtuxent River Naval Air Staition in Maryland

I spend my weekends at home with the wife and weekdays up here ( it's a 3 1/2 hour drive up.)

I have been a Coin collector off and on since I was a kid - just got back into the hobby a few years ago.

I have 12 Dansco albums of circ coins nouthing special and three sets of slabbed coins ( see sig. )

My other hobbys are NASCAR racing ( Headed to Daytona next month cain't wait ) and working with a Border Collie Rescue group as a foster home for the dogs.

We have 4 dogs of our own - two Border collies, a Lab mix, and a Pembroke Welsh Corgi add a cat in the mix and it's never boring at my house. We also have a foster Border collie right now.

I have been staitioned in San Diego CA, Yokosuka Japan, Lakehurst NJ, Norfolk VA and up here at Pax river MD.

Born and raised in Wyoming

I have two son's ( step ) one in also Navy and is in Kuwait right now and the other stayed in Jersey when I tranfered down to Norfolk. He is now Married to a Jersey girl and just bought a house up there.

What more can I say

AbesNeighbor

After Reading Little Wicher's post...I feel inadequate! Way to go Brian! You have your feet firmly on the ground.

As my user name says, I live and work in the insurance business near the only home that Abe Lincoln ever owned in Springfield, IL...Also home to his New Presidential Library.

I collect beautiful $2 1/2 dollar gold pieces and modern platinuum proofs...also very beautiful.

(I'd like to say I collect brunettes)

Dan

AbesNeighbor

.....(But that would be stretching it).

LucyBop

<< <i>(I'd like to say I collect brunettes) >>

RegistryCoin

When my son was young(er), he was able to recognize the mints too, although if quizzed, at least one of the mints was called: "Philadenver".
Long Live Sir W. C. Clankeye.

halfnut

bump

shirohniichan

Name: Shinmen Miyamoto Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin (aka Puddintame)

handle: shirohniichan (short for Shiroh oniichan)

passion: United States Federal Coinage from 1793-1947, esp. seated & trade dollars and 20 cent pieces. Canadian pre and post-Confederation coinage, esp. the latter from 1876 to 1967, and Maritime Provinces coinage. British commonwealth coinage from 1837 to about 1977, esp. crowns. Silver coins used in trade with China from 1750's to 1930. I love both classics and moderns.

other passion: fatherhood, beer, classical music, cars, traveling, breech loading military rifles from 1873-present, photography, foreign languages, nature, American architecture from 1830's to about 1930's, First Nations art (e.g. Haida), fresh water fishing, history (15th to 19th century Japan, 16th and 19th to mid-20th century Europe, colonial to present US), theology of the Reformation, US Mint packaging from 19th century to 1915 Pan Pac Expo, Royal Canadian Mint packaging from 1908 to present (not necessarily in that order). If I get some spare time I want to try percussion revolvers.

collection: unknown number of coins... mostly raw

love interest: my wife (not kidding)

location: Southeast North Orange County, CA

goal: to bring darkness to this "freakin" forum.