it took a while to arrive

I finally received a coin from one of my favorite ebay sellers today. I ordered the coin about 2 weeks ago, but this ebay seller is in northwestern Canada and it usually takes a few weeks for my orders to arrive. This is just due to the postal services--this seller, along with my other top 10-12 favorite ebay sellers always sell fantastic coins and are reliable and trustworthy.

It's a great coin for my High Seas signature set, which has been built almost exclusively through ebay sellers and other on-line sites. I always use money orders to pay--and since ebay is going to ban money orders and checks in October, I have contacted my favorite sellers to ask about their reaction. Every one of them said that I was free to continue to purchase anything in their stores or auctions and pay them via money orders....this is good because I only have 2 or 3 European sellers that I deal with and trust (it's not always the foreign sellers that are dishonest but the postal services of many foreign countries have a way of "losing" packages of value)

Anyhow, I thought that I'd try to get the JOURNALS back on track---they are a place for us to record our collecting experience, not as a place for heated discussions, 10 part articles/summaries on the History of Series X etc etc....

congrats to King of Eagles on completing your VAM set, I enjoyed reading your entry--the excitement you felt practically jumped off the page....

here's a picture of my newest coin for my Signature Set--a $5 gold/silver, 5 sided coin from Bermuda celebrating their 500th year as a nation..