O.K. If it is that important to you that you are right then I'll say it. You're Right. No matter who YOU are. But sometimes, even when you are right you are wrong!

This is a forum that is designed for coin collectors to share their knowledge and enjoy a little camaraderie as well as have a little fun with other collectors. (Are we having fun continuing with this?!) It is not a place for name calling, much less the wholesale degradation and belittlement of another human being. There is enough of that garbage out in the world...we don't need it here also.

I agree with Danny and Dennis about Mike's "contest" and I thank Mike for it. At least he is trying to make it better and more enjoyable for us all. The only thing that this has succeeded in doing is giving me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

You both may have a valid point. I don't know and neither does anyone else here. This is between Gold Eagle and Mike and that is where it should have stayed. I am sorry if you both feel as if you have been wronged but we do not need to suffer through your unhappiness and discontentment. A simple apology and an acceptance of that apology would have gone a whole lot farther and would have been much easier for all of us to deal with. No matter who gave the apology or who accepted it. Please keep it off of this message board. We all need to remember that if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all. Now can we please get back to what we all have in common---COINS!!!