The next meeting of the Melbourne Numismatic Society will be tomorrow evening (Thursday 13th February) at around 7:45pm at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre, with Steele Waterman giving a talk. If you're in the area, why not pop in and say hi!
Quote from: 'Splock' pid='41439' dateline='1392201209'with Steele Waterman giving a talk.
Guaranteed to be informative and entertaining. I'm definitely making the effort to rock up.
Hey Goldy.. wanna come for a drive over to our side of town?
Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='41441' dateline='1392201732'Quote from: 'Splock' pid='41439' dateline='1392201209'with Steele Waterman giving a talk.
Guaranteed to be informative and entertaining. I'm definitely making the effort to rock up.
Hey Goldy.. wanna come for a drive over to our side of town?
Sorry mate, calendar already full.......
Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='41441' dateline='1392201732'Quote from: 'Splock' pid='41439' dateline='1392201209'with Steele Waterman giving a talk.
Guaranteed to be informative and entertaining. I'm definitely making the effort to rock up.
Hey Goldy.. wanna come for a drive over to our side of town?
I would attend in a heartbeat Mate But far to long a drive for me.
The ANDA Perth show is the closest and that's 500k's :dash1:
Steele Waterman speech would be worth the effort
Well, it was a good night. Steele managed to enthrall everyone with his tales of Cyprus, including his exploits as a peacekeeper there. He passed around a folder of banknotes which was interesting (and valuable), but the highlight for me was the "French Army Knife" coin.. How come we haven't had piccies posted of this before, Splock?
Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='41542' dateline='1392295393'but the highlight for me was the "French Army Knife" coin.. How come we haven't had piccies posted of this before, Splock?
Been busy what with new job and all! Good to see you there and hope you make it to another meeting soon. Meanwhile here's the couteau de fromage!
(http://imageshack.com/a/img138/7382/rblo.jpg)
Quote from: 'Splock' pid='41649' dateline='1392379932'Been busy what with new job and all! Good to see you there and hope you make it to another meeting soon. Meanwhile here's the couteau de fromage!
Ta muchly. And yes, I plan on being more involved than previously.
7pm tonight in Box Hill.. be there! :)
Handed out some info about the forum last night... just a recent thread listing, but it might pique some interest from the 19 members and visitors who were there.
Online communications came up, and I was wondering.... would it be feasible to offer clubs little corners of the forum, using group tags for access? That could be quite an attraction for all clubs, saving them running their own forums/mailing lists/etc.
Quote from: 'Splock' pid='41649' dateline='1392379932'Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='41542' dateline='1392295393'but the highlight for me was the "French Army Knife" coin.. How come we haven't had piccies posted of this before, Splock?
Been busy what with new job and all! Good to see you there and hope you make it to another meeting soon. Meanwhile here's the couteau de fromage!
(http://imageshack.com/a/img138/7382/rblo.jpg)
Sorry for going off topic Fulvio but this thing really amazes me and is just so cool I want one so if anyone has one or comes across one I'll buy it :)
Hi Fulvio thanks for the introduction to the forum last night I have now signed up and look forward to learning a great deal more about the world of numismatics Rick
Hi Rick, welcome to the forum :)
Welcome aboard Rick. Glad you could make it. :yahoo:
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='43821' dateline='1394762242'Sorry for going off topic Fulvio but this thing really amazes me and is just so cool I want one so if anyone has one or comes across one I'll buy it :)
Not at all... its even better in hand. Doesn't just look good, but its actually practical as well.
Best of luck finding another though. Not exactly a mass-produced item, y'know... but we could always kidnap Splock and waterboard him or something. :mafia:
...or you could make one! Man of your talents, I'm sure it would be a trifling matter. :)
Oh, and here's another one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNUSUAL-RARE-FRENCH-ARMY-KNIFE-MADE-FROM-1870-5-FRANC-COIN-3-TO-SHIP-/271379552735?nma=true&si=kpnhVW6ya0RdO58kf9CHKxSybZg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
While I'm always up for a bit of casual torture it might be easier if you went to this website, where I think they still might make them :-)
http://www.eloi.net/coinknives.html (http://www.eloi.net/coinknives.html)
Oh and welcome aboard Rick!
Welcome Rick, hope you enjoy the site mate :good: Thanks heaps for that splock I'll suss them out and hope I don't have to sell a kidney :winkextra:
Fulvio you can waterboard and I'll do the or something..your a bad man and gonna get me in trouble :laugh2:
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='43948' dateline='1394882048'your a bad man and gonna get me in trouble :laugh2:
Absolutely! :diablo:
:laugh2: mate I can get in to enough trouble my self thank you very much :(
Hi all, new here. New to collecting to. Went along for first meeting at Box Hill and enjoyed it. Nice people, and great looking at coins being passed along to view. Can see already I will learn a lot from this group.
Quote from: 'proof27' pid='44039' dateline='1395039803'Hi all, new here. New to collecting to. Went along for first meeting at Box Hill and enjoyed it. Nice people, and great looking at coins being passed along to view. Can see already I will learn a lot from this group.
Welcome to the forum :)
:welcome: to the forum Proof27
Hello and Welcome :)
Thanks all :wavemulticolor:
So, I think I count three new members so far, out of a total of 19 people in attendance (two of us already members). Not a bad result I think.
So how about people in other states try a little promotion at their local clubs as well? The forum could be the glue that binds a whole network of people and organisations together, to everyone's benefit, don't you think?
:welcome:
Proof27
Do I sense another Canberra Florin Fan?
Welcome to the forum Mate :yahoo:
:wavemulticolor:
Welcome PR27, hope you enjoy mate :)
:dodgy: no Fulvio you don't get shares :ok:
Sorry it took me so long Splock but I just emailed the link you put up so will let know know what happens if anything :good:
Oh dear...
At MNS tonight I got roped into doing a presentation on coin storage/plastics in July or August. *sigh*
Must remember to get my best heckling material ready by then ;-)
Quote from: 'Splock' pid='46278' dateline='1397185881'Must remember to get my best heckling material ready by then ;-)
:P
Depending on what I come up with, I may need your projector....