MSNS Message Board

 

By special arrangement with the Numismatic Society, a private message board for collectors, MSNS has a forum area of its own. This forum is limited to MSNS members.  To join you will have to give your MSNS member number and the Zipcode that your MichMatist comes to.  These are only for validation.  You pick a different username for being on the MSNS forum message board.  Here, you can discuss convention business, board of directors business, society news, and a wide range topics.  If you participate in other message boards such as PCGS's Collector's Universe or NGC's Collector's Society, then you will find this very familiar.

 

A bit of background by Mike Marotta

 

From January 2004 to December 2010, I wrote the "Internet Connections" column for the ANA Numismatist.  My job was to find trusted websites for collectors.  That included message boards; and I mentioned several in my columns.  Then, last year (2010), this new board came up.  Numismatic Society - www.numissociety.com - is run by an ANA Young Numismatist who signs on as "Freaky GarrettC."   He gets help from his mother, Missie ("FreakyGsMom"), as well as Frank Colletti ("Treashunt").  Frank is the author of A Guide Book of the Official Red Book of United States Coins, the Red Book about Red Books.  Other moderators pitching in include two MSNS stalwarts, William Anderson ("pennyguy") and James Motley ("jamez").  James is also the webmaster for the Huron Valley Numismatic Society.

 

NumisSociety.com has message areas for

Other discussion areas are available for Numismatic Books and Magazines, Photography, and Metal Detecting, as well as sports, weather, and chat.  And, of course, there is a sales and auctions area for member-to-member transactions.  Security online is never any safer than in real life.  That said, the moderators work very hard, specifically because this began as a Young Numismatist project by an ANA member. 

 

If you have never used a message board before, visit the site, read and browse. 

You can see how other people do things, what they talk about.

You do not need to register to read.  Just click on Forum and follow the tabs and links.

In addition to the Forum, there are "Blogs" (web logs) where longer essays about coins appear for general readers.

 

Getting Started

Point your browser to http://www.numissociety.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the word register in the box. You will be taken to a series of inputs.  (After you register you can fill in your Profile and Settings.) 

 

Pick a username and a password. 
You need to give them an email address so that they can send you your validation. Also, any messages you get on the board can bring you a notice on your email to come read the board messages. When the validation arrives in your email, click on it to complete the transaction.

 

You will be brought back to the www.NumisSociety.com website.  You are now an active user.  However, you do not have access to the MSNS forum until you complete your registration profile. 

When you first come back to the message board after retrieving your email, you will see a message box.  The word "profile" is a hotlink.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can find the Profile at the top of the menu bar. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your MSNS member number and ZIPcode are one of the Settings. You will find them at the bottom of that display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You do not need to answer "Yes." 

The box is where you put in your Member Number and the ZIPcode that the MichMatist comes to.

 

At this point, you will be registered for www.NumisSociety.com

When your Member Number and ZIPcode are validated

you will have access to the MSNS Message Forum.

 

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