Speaking just for myself:
Coin People
Coin Talk
Rec.Collecting.Coins (and Paper-Money)
Moneta-L (rarely)

I think that Peter Davis and Stujoe compete head to head but that the differences, small as they are, having nothing to do with either of them. Both websites change as the interests of the changing populations of posters change. So, they have grown over the last two years and I go back and forth with more or fewer posts here or there.

RCC I have serious problems with because it is unmoderated. Of course, that is also its strength.

For all of my interests in ancients, I have less desire to chat with others about that, so I do not go to Moneta-L that often. Ancients is a very subdivided field. With US, you can have Buffalo Nickels and Morgan Dollars and Colonial Paper and it all kind of ties in together, but with ancients, it seems that we all tend to focus narrowly on what are really different times, and places, and peoples.

Hmm let me see;


Coinpeople
Collector's Universe
Coin Community
Cointalk
Predecimal


But i'm also on several yahoo groups too;
English hammered coins

plus some non coin related ones ranging from religion, railways to politics.


Somehow i still find time to do everything else as well...

As for RCC well i stopped reading that group (and the other four google groups i used to read) due to having enough on as it was. You could say i over stretched myself a little.

Right now, just this one. I have posted to Cointalk a few times in the past and also SMS's coin forum. In general though, just this one.

I addition to our wonderful forums I regularly read Collector's Universe (World and Ancient Coins Forum) and CoinTalk, but rarely post there.

Wow Anton, i didn't know you were on CU forums... ha, ha LURKER!

I left CU about 2 1/2 years ago because it just didn't suit me anymore*. Since then, I was at another site until it went down, and now I spend 98% of my time here. (The 2% is occasionally checking in at CU)

*Too many upper-end collectors and slabbers (especially) made it lose most of its appeal to me- the world coin forums used to have alot of regular chit-chat about topics relevant to everyday junkbox stuff.

This slab crazed, grade obsession is perculating into the darkside of CU more and more too and it's mightily annoying to say the least. Although i didn't let that one go uncommented upon. Imagine the faces of the readers on the CU US coin forum when they open up a whole thread devoted to cracking open slabs and how raw coins were the 'correct way to go', bearing in mind the biggest irony was that i'd not only posted that in the liteside but i'd also had the audacity to post it on a forum run by a slabbing company too. Still it gave them a taste of their own medicine, i got fed up of reading posts in the darkside about how all coins should be slabbed (and how i was wrong), so i turned the tables on them. T'was fun too...


Not surprisingly i've been here more of late!

For me the majority of posts are at CoinPeople -- and there haven't been many of those recently.

I also checkin at The Fly-In Club Forum, PreDecimal, CoinTalk and very rarely Coppercoins.

I read the yahoo group for Early American Coppers but have only posted there two or three times.

RCC
Pre-Decimal
Numismata.org
Coin Talk
Coinpeople
Moneta-L - more of a lurker
Early Copper
English Hammered

CP, of course. CoinCommunity is second. From there, I pretty much just lurk the rest of the forums with an ever so occasional post on the ones I can log into. I do at least skim about every, major coin forum out there at least a couple of times a week, some of them, like CoinTalk and RCC, I skim daily.

I'm mostly on this forum, however, since I do try to get the most information on stocks I go here.

http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/cgi-bin/st...txt&d=mainpages

I studied up on the stock that originally got me into the trading and investments. I quickly sold after it was such a lemon. Good news is I didn't lose any money on the stock.

Voted "3" considering my recent posting activity. I have written in ten coin forums or so, but including places where I post one message or two per year does not make much sense. For me it's mostly coinpeople.com, muenzen.net (German), and cointalk.org ... oh, and rcc. Dang, that's four :-)

Christian

Collector's Universe - mostly.
Coinpeople - Second most.
Coin Community - Occasionally.
Cointalk - Occasionally.
Toned Coin Collectors - Occasionally.
SMS's site - But it's no longer there.

... and I really wish I had a "real" life

I pretty much only post on CP. Tried a few other places but left.

Just CP for me. I read the NGC forums but don't post there too much.

Mike can i ask you why did you give an option of 'none?'. Witty humour or do you know something i don't know about this 'forum'... maybe it's a message board and not a forum... hmm, confusing it is.

Makes sense to me. A lurker may well participate in such a poll - and yet never write a message ;-)

Christian

I just went an reread that line, it says POST and not PARTICIPATE (I'm afraid i often substitute one word for another without realising it, i'm sure i'm dyslexic you know).


I've got to confess though i honestly can't do 'lurker' i've tried but you guys know me i've got an opinion on everything and i've just got to throw my two pennies into the area... it'd drive me mad not being able to chip in.

Same here. If I "use" a forum merely because I need/want the information from some discussion, continuing to be a lurker is easy for me. But if there are a few other topics that I find interesting, that gets much harder :-)

Christian

Coin People is #1 for me. I mainly "lurk" the rest of them. Otherwise my personal web page gives the rest away for me at the bottom here.

hm... Here, and CU. i also bother the people at numismatikform.de but since I can read German but not write it it's nice of them not to express their opinions about me openly!

For coins I post here and on the NGC boards, though mostly here lately.

Mainly here and at forum-numismatica.com, sometimes at CU (world coin forum) and numismata.org. I don't check RCC in a year (at least)...


Jose

I had a few months off working on writing programs that could collect prices. Anyway I post

Here now
rec.collecting.coins
Moneta-L
Sasan-L

I also read ACFDL-L and Parthia-L but I don't post much there

I forgot, sometimes the Forum ancient coin site as well.

Hello CoinPeople:
I post to:
Moneta-L
CFDL
UCFDL, rarely
Ancient Peddlers
Unidroit-L
Ancient Coin Attribution
Ancient Genealogy
All these groups under my real name.

Forum
and now Coin People
Under the name Pax Orbis or Pax Orbis Furius

I use Pax Orbis when I want to write something particularly controversial. Often I enjoy gently goading an expert into a debate based on some wild personal theory of mine. I learn much from these debates and find the break in my intellectual boredom quite satisfying. I wonder if someone will eventually discover my true identity by recognizing my writing style? I do not know really, I am fairly certain that I am being read on several of the lists so the possiblity should reasonably exist. As a writer, this is a thrilling experience. Pre-internet I was only collecting rejection slips, now at least I am being read. Having just recently gone on-line, July, I am still amazed at the power of this medium. I know of no other venue available to me where I have any impact whatsoever. In the ancient coin world or any other microcosm. In this internet world, I seem to have a knack for stirring the pot, creating a hornet's nest of posts. Amazing to watch the group dynamic evolve for a time then post a few guiding and or provocative words to almost orchestrate the thread. I do not really believe that my impact has been great, only that to have any impact at all is incredibly gratifying, as a writer. You know what I mean. Right?
Pax

We should get along just fine!

Reading these posts from POF, I wonder if he is Reid Goldsborough, but then I wonder who provided him with three consecutive words of Latin -- and POF alludes to being Asian. Actually, it is my experience, having written under pseudonyms and my own name for over 30 years, that no one cares who you are. Honestly. There was a time when an editor called me to tell me that a tightly written work was one line too long. She did not know what to cut. "Take out the by-line," I said. She was shocked. She never had an author do that, but I know that no one cares who I am, or what my name is.

Go to a coin convention and you will hear someone say, "Did you see my article in Coin Life on Dancing Leopard Dimes?" and the other person will say, "I really liked that! I didn't know you wrote it."

No one cares who you are, Furius. We accept you prima facie.

I have to admit i was thinking Reid myself.

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I second this.

Though for the record, he/she doesn't sound like Reid to me

I suspect someone from rcc but, as you two say, it really isn't a big deal. Anonymity, or at least perceived anonymity , is a common on the internet and it has valid uses at times.

Four primarily, used to be more. But in the past 2 years Coin Talk has grown so - I simply don't have the time anymore. They are - Coin Talk, Coin People, PCGS and NGC.

Allow me to doff my hat to Peter Davis for Coin Talk. I find that Coin Talk and Coin People compete well -- if they view it as competition at all -- and I split my time between them. I signed up for the Big Boards because I have to for work, but I do not feel comfortable on them. CoinPeople and CoinTalk are more like small villages. You don't have to like everyone, but you do know everyone. The moderators on both boards have created interesting discussion areas in response to reader requests.