Until now, all of my Journals have been a historical documentation of my coin acquisitions. I would like to take some time out in this journal entry to offer my congratulations to the 2011 NGC Registry Award Winners and to state my New Year's Resolution in relation to my collection.

The Registry Awards this year seemed to have caused a very emotional response from many of the participants. I think it is important to realize that everyone in a position to win an award works very hard on their collections and they take those collections very seriously.

I would like to congratulate all of the winners this past year and applaud their dedication to our great hobby. Furthermore, I would like to call special attention to the winner of THE MOST CREATIVE CUSTOM SET for 2011, THE BRG COLLECTION--HORSES. This is one of the most fantastic registry sets I have ever had the pleasure to view. Bravo Brandon on presenting such a fantastic set!

To all of the participants who did not win an award, I would like to encourage you to keep working at improving your collections and your registry displays. Eventually your hard work will pay off. It took me three years to improve the presentation of my collection before I finally won a Best Presented Set Award in 2010.

I was given an award for best journal entries over the last year. This came as a complete surprise since I had stopped posting my new acquisitions in my Journal entries midway through the year. 2011 was a difficult year for me personally with the loss of both my girlfriend and job in the last 6 months. As a result, my attention to coin collecting in general seemed to wane. But the journal award has inspired me to once again devote my passion back into numismatics.

My New Year's resolution is that I will complete at least one Journal entry every month without exception. Since I only have 12 coins left to complete my Jefferson Nickel collection, it will be probable that I won't have a new acquisition every month. On the months that I don't have a new acquisition to create a new journal entry, I will create an entry entitled REWIND. These entries will focus on a coin that I have purchased in the past that will provide an opportunity to teach a valuable lesson about the Jefferson Nickel series.

As a consequence of my current unemployment, I will be liquidating most of my collection outside of my Jefferson Nickels. This will include all of my rainbow toned coins as well as my duplicate Jefferson Nickels. Much of the higher end material has already been consigned and sold through Heritage. In order to help sell the rest of my collection, I will be opening a new E-Bay Store in the very near future. I have attached the logo below.

Happy New Year to everyone and here is wishing everyone the best in 2012.