and a few in sight...

It's a rainy day here in Maryland..which means that my "summer hobbies" of sailing, fishing, and vegetable gardening are postponed for the day.

So this is a perfect day to enjoy my collection. Often when I visit my coins it is simply to browse through the sets here at CS..however it sure is nice to pull out a few slab boxes and look at them in hand.

I'm getting off track here..what I wanted to record in my journal is that I recently reached a milestone. My High Seas signature set recently surpassed 5,000 views !! This is a pretty amazing # to me because it is a true reflection of how many visits the set has had from other collectors ( the view count on my sets doesn't change when I look at them).

I ran a contest when it reached 4,900 views on the Chat Boards here at NGC. The person who was the 5,000th viewer simply had to copy the webpage showing themself as the 5,000th viewer and I sent them a package of coins. Congrats to EZ-E who won the contest and got a 2009 SAE, a 1 ounce Cuba sailing ship coin and a handful of other coins with sailing ships...the contest was a token of my gratitude to all of you here in the community who have supported my odd little niche in the hobby with Nautically themed coins..and a special thanks to all who have sent me links and heads up when you've come across Sailing Ship coins or dealers who sell them ( a few of you have actually even bought the coins and sent them to me for free !!)

It is generosity and kindnesses like these that keep me always willing to "pay it forward" to the next guy who needs some help or has a last slot/hole to fill in a set.

Thanks again to all for making me feel part of this little community of individuals who share the love of numismatics.

Here's a picture of a nice Australian sailing coin...sent to me by RareSov, all the way from Australia...he charged me only mint cost!!..he paid the slabbing and the cost of sending it insured overseas..gestures like this are very humbling...