It's my 20th anniversary on the forums this month.
August 17th will be my 20th anniversary on the CU forums. What a journey it has been.
What's that you said?
Of course there is a giveaway! ![]()
Why don't you come join the party and say hello, for old time's sake?
I've got another giveaway here, too.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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Feels like I've known you for 20 years @lordmarcovan although it has only been about 5 years.
Congrats Lord M
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Time sure flies.
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Twenty years and never got kicked off? LOL
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Congrats!! Next July will be 20 for me.
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@MWallace said:
Twenty years and never got kicked off? LOLOnce, for about 12 hours, when CarolJ had to give me and Phil Arnold a well-deserved modspank for some raucous Open Forum hijinks.

Naturally, I groveled myself back in. And he later got hired. So it all worked out.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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Congratulations!
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Damn you’re old.
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Congrats, my 20th will be in just over a year, hard to believe its been that long.
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Wow, congrats! I was 16 when you joined the forum! Lol
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Congratulations.
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Hey Rob good to see you posting, congrats on the anniversary best regards for many moremy friend.
"That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"
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18 years and 2 months, congrats on your 20 years! I will have to look at your giveaway! I miss reading the open forum.
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My 20th anniversary here was last month, but I only need 41,000 more posts to catch up to you...

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The Holiest of Holeys! Just a year behind.
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Congrats on your anniversary! You've been on the forum for longer that I have been alive!
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Happy Anniversary!
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Well deserved kudos. You've been on the Forum since before I went onto Social Security! I was thinking I might sing you "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It", but then I remembered that my usual gift for this sort of occasion is promising to not sing.
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Congrats! I’ve only been on here 10.
"If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
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Congrats on 20 years!
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Congrats Lord M. That is a noteworthy milestone!
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Big CONGRATS Lord Marcovan!
It'll be 10 years for me in October.
Seems like yesterday....
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15 years this Labor Day
How come I never heard of this marcovan dude"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
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Happy Anniversary on this thread as well Lord M. I got a frog love token and a Megalodon tooth from you. Been with you here for the full twenty years. Cheers, RickO
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Happy Forumversary big guy. I think I wondered here in 2006 or 2008. Been too long to remember.
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Keep on riding, Milord

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congrats on the 20 years
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Congratulations, Rob! You are one of the nicest guys on the forums, and I have always enjoyed your posts. Thank you!
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@koynekwest said:
Congrats!! Next July will be 20 for me.I bow to you my Holey One!
I've always known you since I got here in 2005.
Pete
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Gosh I just checked and I've been here 13 years! Congrats on a double decade and thanks for all your fun and interesting threads... I won't ever forget the search for the lost Yap stone money!
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Congrats my friend!
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Congratulations on 20 years! I'll reach that milestone in October.
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Congrats and good to see you here again!
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@Sonorandesertrat said:
Keep on riding, Milord
1650 Nuremberg, Germany. 1/8 Thaler. Peace of Westphalia issue
Ex: Lord MarcovanAhh, yes. The “hobby horse” klippe. Always loved that design. Have owned two. Yours was the nicer, being MS. The other was a “holey” on my old signature “Holey Coin Vest”.
The pics never did justice to the piece you have there, in my opinion.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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@guitarwes said:
Happy Forumversary big guy. I think I wondered here in 2006 or 2008. Been too long to remember.Good to see you, Wes. You and I went to a show here in GA in January of ‘08. That was the last show I ever attended, believe it or not.
Of course I enjoyed the time you sublet my antique mall booth later, when I was ready to get out of the (tiny) brick-and-mortar business. You tripled if not quadrupled the sales with your inventory, in the time you ran it. My stuff was perhaps too Darkside for this ol’ Georgia town.
Here’s a trip down Memory Lane for you.









Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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Congratulations on your twentieth anniversary!
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Now I remember. Rob!
(the memory is the second thing to go)This is a Darkside piece that's ex-Lordmarcovan

and, for contrast, another Edward I penny,
one that wasn't buried under beach sand for centuries in Wales...

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
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@Swampboy said:
Now I remember. Rob!
(the memory is the second thing to go)This is a Darkside piece that's ex-Lordmarcovan

and, for contrast, another Edward I penny,
one that wasn't buried under beach sand for centuries in Wales...

Cool hoard coin, Gil! I dimly remember your buying that. Ahhh, the stories they could tell, eh?
My Edward I penny cost me 2-3 minutes on my knees in the mud of an Essex farm field, one twilight during the fall of 2013. The sun had gone down, darkness had closed in, and I had forgotten to bring my headlamp.
I guess you could say I found it by the Braille method. I kept scooping clumps of soil from the bottom of the hole I’d dug, and waving fistfuls over the detector searchcoil until I got a beep on what was in my glove. Then I fingered through the handful of loose dirt until I found it.
Though it had gotten completely dark by that time, I could tell right away I had a hammered coin in my hand from how thin it was. Exhilarated, I crossed the field to where a detecting colleague was hunting- I saw his light bobbing in the distance. He didn’t hear my approach in the gloom, so I startled him out of his shoes!
I’ve owned other Edward I pennies. and nicer, but this one is the one for me. Being the first person to touch it in 700 years was a truly magical experience.



Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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I should add that a number of kind contributions from forum friends in the “Send Lord Marcovan to England” movement paid for about half of that trip. Without that, I never would have had the opportunity to check that #1 item off my bucket list (detecting in England) and find the coin above.
The memory of the adventure will last a lifetime, but the memory of the kindness of dozens of friends who passed the hat to make that happen is even more priceless to me.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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Congrats, lordmarcovan, I have been here off and on for one year less than you...
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Ahhh yes, the antique mall booth! Good gosh, that's been awhile. I plowed thru more inventory with that booth than I've ever seen and couldn't keep up with stocking it. I caught it just right with the huge runup in silver prices in 2010-2011. It was crazy good for the pocketbook but got to be too much with the over 2 hour commute one way to keep it fed plus having a full time job AND running a business with my wife. A great experience indeed and great customers to boot.
As for that show in Macon in '08, that's the last one I've been too also. A good trip.
Oh, my in-laws just bought Villa de Suenos on SSI. A little run down shack.
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Dang, I just checked and I'm only one year behind you! We've been forum-married that long?
Oh well, unlike my wife, you and I have never had a fight!
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@ms70 said:
Dang, I just checked and I'm only one year behind you! We've been forum-married that long?Oh well, unlike my wife, you and I have never had a fight!

Wanna start one?

Here, I’ll go first.
You smell like egg-salad sammiches!
So there! Nyah Nyah. Take that!
Hmm. Kinda weak, wasn’t it?
Best I could come up with on short notice.
(Hey, come to think of it, I could eat me an egg-salad sammich right about now. Especially with some curry in it. Yeah, I know. I’m a weirdo.)
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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I hit 20 in November....just a few less posts however.
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