HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
2011 was a tough year for many of our members. Poor economic times have left some unemployed, banks are still failing (in Europe and the U.S.), freak blizzards, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and floods. Whew! Somehow, each one of our members has made it through one heck of a year. Hopefully 2012 will hold much more promise going forward and want to take the time to wish everyone nothing but the best for the upcoming new year.
2012 we will see the loss of circulating Presidential & Native American dollar coins due to poor economic times. I expect other nations that have circulating commemorative programs to follow suit and only offer such coins to the collector market at more profitable pricing. Personally, I did not mind seeing the dead-head coins disappear but the Native American coins were being produced with some interesting designs and will miss these in pocket change.
On the bullion front, silver and gold started the first half of the year sky-rocketing to new highs but economic times affected these fronts as well. The second half of the year saw prices decline back to where they started.
Here at Typesets.Wikidot.com, 2011 was our fifth year and the content keeps growing and growing. Here are just of few highlights of what was accomplished in 2011:
- Coin page descriptions went from 250 to 359, these page descriptions represent 584 types of coins with 776 supporting photos.
- More than 300,000 visitors
- The Canadian Library & Type Set pages were cleaned up
- The United States & Canada "Collecting by Country" pages were updated and represent the new standard going forward
- We received so many Australian and Israeli coin write-ups we had two create two new libraries dedicated to just these countries
- The U.S. Commemoratives (pre 1982) in the U.S. Library were completed almost single handedly by one of our own members (GregA)
Going forward for the site all fees have been paid, in fact we even jumped on re-newel special where we got two years for the price of one! So the site will continue for not just another year but two. Site fees are not the only good news; we also increased the allocated memory from 2GB to 5GB giving us a ton of more room for additional pictures, files, or videos.
And to wrap things up we added 20 new members this year bringing the site membership up to a total of 59 members. So here is a special welcome to the 20 new members of 2011; curtis knee, rajean1, Jeffrubino, mantecaneil, magoo83, sherer, rysheart, silvertime, chettaboy, Ron Ackert, Anniejames, Hany Fathy, blackbert1, wolfkill, vhzone_28, CINCITY, olindh, paul neda, consto, and finally kyle32.
Regards & Best Wishes for the Upcoming Year!
Ken