Hussulo

This hoard was discovered near where I live.

Wrong end of the stick.

Friends, numismatists, fellow collectors lend me your support. After hearing many stories of your disillusionment and plight with one of the leading online trading community websites, and due to the fact that the leading online company in question doesn't have much of a serious competitor, I have designed and built a new website where you can buy and sell your coins or numismatic items. I have built this site from the ground up with you the numismatist in mind. It is easy and fun to use, free to join and free to list items for sale. The only charge is a modest 4% to the seller on the final sale price of any items sold. I think you'll agree that 4% is very reasonable and I plan to use most of any monies made to invest in advertising the site. Hopefully this will be the catalyst for a virtuous circle leading to increasing numbers of buyers and sellers. I am currently going to have a banner on a few coin forums and a couple of dealer sites, and I am planning on a colour advertisement in Coin News (UK) in the next couple of months. I am dedicated to this project 100% and with your backing I'm sure we can make it a success. Now for the giveaway. It is open to any member of the forum. To enter for a chance to win the coin pictured below: simply post a comment in this thread. The giveaway will this time next week, where I will put all the entry names into a hat and my wife will draw out one lucky winner. Thank you, Hus

Merry Christmas to all. We had a great day at my mother in laws. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas? Regards, Hus

Thank you for your suggestions Q.E.D. We already have a couple of dealers listing and we have just started advertising, so we are hoping for a snowball affect. Whereby more people will join and when they do this will attract even more. We really need to get it out there and show people there is an alternative to eBay and it is specifically for coin collectors. We could have had our fees set at 0% but felt it would be a bit underhanded to let users join and then bump the fees up later. The current fee is 4% which we don't plan on changing and you only have that to pay as a seller if you sell an item. It costs you nothing to list an item if it doesn't sell, so you don't really stand much to loose. We feel that 4% is a very competitive figure, if you sell a coin for £10 it is only costing you 40p. There are no hidden fees. Some similar sites have a sliding percentage whereby depending on how much you sell an item for the percentage changes. On Coins4u.net it's a flat 4% regardless of how much your final sale price is. We plan on using most of any profit made to invest in advertising the site. Hopefully this will be the catalyst for a virtuous circle leading to increasing numbers of buyers and sellers. If we charged 0% or advertising budget would be greatly reduced and this wouldn't benefit the site or the sellers. It would be impossible for us to monitor every item listed. Essentially the site is an advertising platform for sellers to list and describe their own products. They can sell using a number of options including Purchase Now, or an auction format, although the site or Coins4u.net isn't an auction service. We do not handle any of the coins or goods at any time. Current listing types are: Auction Listing Format Dutch Auction Listing Format Reverse Auction Listing Format Fixed Price Listing Format Allow sellers to specify Start Date You also get 6 free picture uploads. Free to join and as mentioned listing is free. I would recommend all sellers to use clear pictures and descriptions as it will help sell their products and minimise returns. I would also recommend that buyers do their research and make sure what they are planning on buying has been graded accurately, they understand the description and buy from a seller with a good returns policy. I am keen to keep the sale of forged, counterfeit and fake coins which are being sold as the real thing to a minimum. I realise it may be impossible to stop all such items being listed but as an when we are alerted to them we will make a judgement and if the item is indeed the above it will be removed, and the seller possibly warned, suspended or banned. With that in mind if the site does get busy I would like to hire experienced collectors/ experts as a judge in their particular type of field, who could asses a coin and delete the said sale or auction if appropriate. Kind regards, Hus

Received the coin today Hus, thanks again. Mark You're welcome.

I collect gold coins, but personally for me it's about numismatics and aesthetics. I would like to think that in years time my collection might be worth more, but I buy gold coins because I like gold as a materiel and some of the world gold coins have beautiful designs. I was inspired by the Eliasberg World gold coin collection. As already pointed out the economical situation can make collecting them quite hard, as the price of gold plays a big factor.