How did you first find out about the CU/PCGS forums.............

SanctionII · October 16, 2006 7:19AM

.......... and how long did it take for you to join and start posting?

I stumbled across it when I was looking for pricing information on coins. The PCGS price guide popoed up on a search request. I was directed to the price guide and while browsing through it saw the link to message boards. This was in 2003 I recall. I then lurked for awhile and joined in 8-2004.

Great place to hang out, if you like little round pieces of metal with pictures and writing on them, wot?

seemyauction · October 16, 2006 7:21AM

I don't remember how I was led to this site....maybe it came to me in a dream???

Aegis3 · October 16, 2006 7:23AM

Beats me (long time ago), and it took quite a long time to start posting, as seen from my join date. I've never been a big fan of web-based forums, nor the webification of the internet. Then, when you couple that with my deep antipathy of slabs and my laughter at some of the more stupid things said here (even those labeled as "expert collectors"), it tooks me a while before a bit the bullet.

cladking · October 16, 2006 7:30AM

I shouldda found in in September, 01 when I googled "coin chat" but got a list
of ads instead. I was looking at the PCGS home page when I spied "message
boards" and knew I was home even before it was done loading. That was April,
'02 and I registered immediately.

mgoodm3 · October 16, 2006 7:31AM

Just happened upon it while surfing.

Cladiator · October 16, 2006 7:31AM

I honestly don't remember.

Bochiman · October 16, 2006 7:33AM

K6AZ and the RCC.

I hid and read for about a month or more before registering. Then I waited a few more days before posting.
I prefer to recon things before just jumping in. Better to know what people are like and what accepted norms are.

Leiana · October 16, 2006 7:34AM

I followed a link from Coinfacts to PCGS to here.

-Amanda

DorkGirl · October 16, 2006 7:35AM

I was trying to Google the website for one of those fly-by-night slabbers on eBay when Goggle came up with a thread from this forum. I lurked for a long time before I joined.

Russ · October 16, 2006 7:36AM

I was getting fantastic deals on ACG graded coins on eBay and wondered why they were so cheap, so I did a Google search on grading companies.

Russ, NCNE

Russ · October 16, 2006 7:37AM

That's freaky.

Russ, NCNE

pharmer · October 16, 2006 7:50AM

I was reading an ebay listing for a 1969s 1c ddo, which was obviously strike doubled, and the seller was going off about the "troglodytes" of the CU Forum and their criticism of the listing and her. Didn't know there was a coin forum, or even what an internet forum was. Found the place, and the rest is Herstory. Scared the crap out of me at first, I was afraid to post something. Now I'm sticking around for Shylock's nudie photos, and to show off my fish photos, including my first bonefish ever, caught last week with a flyrod, in the Bahamas.

shylock · October 16, 2006 7:57AM

I was a lurker in the old PCGS forum, pre-Feb 2001, for about six months before posting in the spring of 2000.

I found it through the PCGS website link. Back then you could make a post and still find it on the first page two weeks
later. And in most cases the only one who replied to it was PCGS's head honcho Rick Montgomery.

Newb · October 16, 2006 7:59AM

<< .......... and how long did it take for you to join and start posting?

I stumbled across it when I was looking for pricing information on coins. The PCGS price guide popoed up on a search request. I was directed to the price guide and while browsing through it saw the link to message boards. This was in 2003 I recall. I then lurked for awhile and joined in 8-2004.

Great place to hang out, if you like little round pieces of metal with pictures and writing on them, wot?

>>

Ditto. Just change the dates a bit.

popoed..

WoodenJefferson · October 16, 2006 8:48AM

I happened onto this site once before while surfing for graders but thought I thought it was an interactive link between you (user) and PCGS so I did not enter, because I had no questions to ask PCGS.

Then one day I did..and wala, come to find out it's an interactive link with some very knowledgeable and friendly posters!

Thank you experts/dealers/aficionados of numismatics!

Luv all them coin pics!

RickMilauskas · October 16, 2006 8:53AM

Michael Dixon told me about it back in 2003 and I just never got around to it for about a year.

IRCWCoins · October 16, 2006 8:56AM

I found out about the forums from an article in Coin World about the Cheerios Sacagaweas back in August 05. I lurked for a long time before I joined.

jabba · October 16, 2006 9:00AM

When I came back to collecting coins again I searched Gooogle and found you guys

StrikeOutXXX · October 16, 2006 9:00AM

I was posting on my Star Trek message board a few years ago - and someone posted a thread titled with the body of:

"If you think Trekkies are nuts..."
Check out how much this babe just paid for a nickel

(OK - bad spoof...)

Seriously - I bought my son Whitman albums for his 10th birthday about 3 years ago, and we had been filling those with circulation change. Back then I had a question about a strange cent we found and doing googling, found this place. It had been bookmarked and I lurked off/on for a few years, until I joined in April when I started getting back into the hobby.

Shamika · October 16, 2006 9:05AM

This is a great subject for a thread.

As I recall, I discovered it from one of those "The PCGS Price Guide says this coin is worth..." statements that sellers often use on eBay and thus went looking for this so called "PCGS Price Guide". I then noticed a link to the Message Board and lurked for a few months before I joined.

TorinoCobra71 · October 16, 2006 9:10AM

I found out about it from RCC about FIVE years ago.....

TorinoCobra71

lkenefic · October 16, 2006 9:16AM

I was surfing on the PCGS site and came across the message boards. I signed up the same day.

Leo

PhillyJoe · October 16, 2006 10:57AM

<< This is a great subject for a thread.

As I recall, I discovered it from one of those "The PCGS Price Guide says this coin is worth..." statements that sellers often use on eBay and thus went looking for this so called "PCGS Price Guide". I then noticed a link to the Message Board and lurked for a few months before I joined. >>

This is how I remember it also. I probably lurked a month or two before joining. I started buying on Teletrade before joining; now THAT'S scary! My first purchase on TT was a 1967 67 UltraCameo Kennedy. The PCGS price guide said it was worth $1300, bought it for $650. I was high-fiving everyone the next day at my good fortune.

It's been a long and enjoyable ride.

Joe

kevinstang · October 16, 2006 11:03AM

Heard about it from a dealer at a coin show. Checked the site out more and more regularly, but took a year for me to join and post. Learned alot while lurking as well.

Russ · October 16, 2006 11:03AM

<< My first purchase on TT was a 1967 67 UltraCameo Kennedy. >>

Any extra dots on it?

Russ, NCNE

Nic · October 16, 2006 11:04AM

Surfing ... a long time ago. Pharmer, leave the baby alone

. K

PhillyJoe · October 16, 2006 11:09AM

<< 

<< My first purchase on TT was a 1967 67 UltraCameo Kennedy. >>

Any extra dots on it?

Russ, NCNE >>

No dots on that one, but the herd was just forming.

Joe

elwood · October 16, 2006 11:14AM

Evillageprowler

Nice boner pharmer!!

CoinRaritiesOnline · October 16, 2006 11:18AM

A couple of customers told me at shows -- "Hey, your company was mentioned on the Forum."

I, of course, answered: "The wha'....?"

Then I found out that my friend (and now co-worker) ColonialCoinUnion was posting on it like a madman for years, and now here I am. It is kind of addicting.

eyoung429 · October 16, 2006 11:19AM

Carl W. brought me here and I have been posting since day 1. He is a darn good dealer and an excellent friend!

BobaFett72 · October 16, 2006 11:23AM

I found the www address scrawled on a bathroom stall in a rest stop on I-95 LOL

ldhair · October 16, 2006 11:35AM

The old board bought me here and I don't know how I got there.

It's been one l of a ride.

Bear · October 16, 2006 11:35AM

It was a microchip implanted in

my brain while I slept.

Swampboy · October 16, 2006 11:47AM

I googled PCGS from reading about PCGS graded coins on Ebay.
Probably a common story.

Woodwind · October 16, 2006 12:08PM

It was about four years ago when I wanted to find information on PCGS. I can't remember if I googled PCGS or just entered www.pcgs.com in my browser, but I found it, browsed the site and found the message boards from there. I waited about a month before I registered.

anablep · October 16, 2006 12:11PM

Did a google search, found this place and lurked for about one month. That was about 3 years ago.

RYK · October 16, 2006 12:15PM

I stumbled across it when I was looking for pricing information on coins.

Same here. Maybe there is some value to the PCGS Price Guide ("the most influential blah-blah-blah...) afterall.

seanq · October 16, 2006 2:38PM

<< K6AZ and the RCC.

I hid and read for about a month or more before registering. Then I waited a few more days before posting.
I prefer to recon things before just jumping in. Better to know what people are like and what accepted norms are. >>

I also came here from RCC through Eric. He submitted some Jefferson nickels to PCGS for me and posted the submission results in a thread here. The nickels were some of the nicest from my raw full step set, and I ended up with a couple of nice scores (including a 1964 in MS66 which was a pop 4/0 at the time). When Eric started getting peppered with PMs about the nickels, he suggested I join and answer them myself.

Sean Reynolds

silverpop · October 16, 2006 3:36PM

Found this site while looking for coin sites

Coxe · October 16, 2006 3:44PM

I think I was aware of it shortly after it began but had no inclination to participate or read the forum. Same at NGC when theirs started up. (Still haven't read/posted there at all.) I was over in the usenet groups one day for something wholly unrelated to coins and just decided to look into RCC and lured myself into some discussions. That went on for a while. I got sick of the spammers and the abusive idiots and came over here. A few folks had cross posted info from the forums a few times. I stuck around because enough folks I knew from real life ended up being here and I met a lot of interesting other people too. This sure beats the mudpits of the RCC group and moves at the right speed to keep interesting.

RegistryCoin · October 16, 2006 3:47PM

In a classroom in Coinalot, just after the Labor Day weekend, 2003. Mrs. Coinboard was the teacher...
For those who missed that class

Dog97 · October 16, 2006 6:00PM

In 1999 I heard from somewhere that you could check submission status online & I was checking my submission status and saw the links to the message board.

How did you first find out about the CU/PCGS forums.............

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