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[trout]

Why can't I see what my proxy bid is anymore ?
I just noticed that I am unable to view what my proxy bid is anymore, I used to be able to see it and it is handy for forgetful old buggers like me .

[robbiegal]

no luck on my lotto ticket ...........

good luck with your auctions

[wwwww]

Why can't I see what my proxy bid is anymore ?
I just noticed that I am unable to view what my proxy bid is anymore, I used to be able to see it and it is handy for forgetful old buggers like me .

because I forgot :/

I'll be making them visible shortly.

[trout]

Why can't I see what my proxy bid is anymore ?
I just noticed that I am unable to view what my proxy bid is anymore, I used to be able to see it and it is handy for forgetful old buggers like me .

because I forgot :/

I'll be making them visible shortly.

Cheers Mate

[trout]

It's working now alter, thanks Mate :good:
Spewing I missed last nights auction, by the time I knocked off and got back to my motel the auction had ended :dash1:

[runway]

It's working now alter, thanks Mate :good:
Spewing I missed last nights auction, by the time I knocked off and got back to my motel the auction had ended :dash1:

dittums

[trout]

I was able to log on at the tail end of tonight's auction after missing Wed and Thursday's auctions.
I picked up some nice raw decimal proofs that the grand kids will love, 4 of the little buggers have started collecting now.
I also picked up a nice honest circulated Canberra florin.

The young uns are doing pretty well getting decimal date sets from everyone's change and I have been supplying them with the MSO coins.
I have given each of them a PP album with 20 pages in them and will have to get another 4 shortly.
They raid my penny bins and my junk silver bucket every time they visit and they always ask me if I have bought anything new and they Love examining my new acquisitions.
I am probably spoiling them a bit but if you can look into the big blue eyes of a 10 year old and say NO then you are a better Man than I am Gungadin :angel:
they all have done a pretty good job of writing the details of each coin on the 2x2 before adding them to their albums and I thoroughly
enjoy looking through what they have been able to collect so far :good:

My motivations are pretty selfish because I think I get just as much enjoyment as they do from their collections as they progress

[Nevol]

I'd be a happy little vegemite if I had even one youngun' interested in coins, so you are 4 times blessed. There's no one following on from me with any interest at all, so my collection will probably be cashed in at the Bank or end up on Ebay.

Sort of makes me feel 'what's the use of continuing' with it.

[trout]

Sort of makes me feel 'what's the use of continuing' with it.

I do occasionally buy coins for friends and family But 99.99% of the time I collect purely for my own enjoyment and satisfaction and rest assured one whiff of the grim reaper and I will sell everything so that I can indulge myself with my other passion of fishing the different rivers and bays that abound in this great country :angel:

I don't think of my collections as a "legacy" that I have to preserve and pass on to future generations.
They are simply a result of my selfish indulgence in a hobby that I enjoy and would have no remorse whatsoever about selling them to another collector when the time comes :ok:

[robbiegal]

ditto
I have accepted that I collect for myself even though I originally started because I wanted my kids to have some material history

luckily I have a hubby who is also a collector so we both enjoy the hobby together which is great

one son dabbles a tad and really gets a kick out of our collecting so he'd cheerfully line up on an inheritance day and the other siblings would cheerfully give the lot to him to look after

[Goose]

I have 8 grown kids and 25 grand kids and not one is interested in coin collecting. In the last year or so, I've thought of selling my collection. But, I'm inflicted with a disease called 'Numismatosis', which in layman's terms, means buying more coins without really needing them when one wishes to sell their collection.
Due to my disease, on Saturday I'm driving 460 km (280 mi) round trip to a very large coin show in another state. Wish me bad luck (to buy nothing).
There is only one cure for this disease, but I want to live til I'm at least 100.

[robbiegal]

ha ha
it's a bit like that movie groundhog day

[Nevol]

I'm inflicted with a disease called 'Numismatosis', which in layman's terms, means buying more coins without really needing them.

Wow! What are the chances of us both having the same disease? :winkextra:

[Goose]

Well, my trip to the coin show was successful. After 280 miles (460 km) round trip and $26 U S in gas, I came home with a $2 'Token'. The 'Token' was an 1852 St George 'Bank of Upper Canada' and the reverse - 'Bank Token' and 'One Penny'. Ah, a rare token I thought...HA! I read that these tokens are very plentiful. Eleven TONS (I calculated...620,000) of these tokens were found in the vaults of the bank in 1867 when the bank failed. They then were sold for scrap and melted, but some uncirculated examples are around, evidently not all were melted.

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