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It seems like this website is really old, like ancient... Can I still sign up for the club, or am I wasting my money. I've seen websites before where they ended something but the website remained... So should I sign up? Will I still get my pennies?
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Yes the club still exists and the newsletter is still going strong. Although I am slightly offended you think all my hard work looks "ancient", maybe you can give me some ideas to help spruce the place up a bit? Just head on over the the Join page and print out the membership application!
~Katie TEC #3511 tecnews.org webmaster pennycollector.com image editor baseball penny collector
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The yellow contrasting with the white is a strain on the eyes. The main thing that makes it look old is the lack of pictures. The whole website other then the head where you navigate it from is just text. Pretty much every modern website puts pictures into it. Sorry for the offense, I didn't mean it like that. I'm definetly going to sign up though, the fact I'm under 18 gives me a nice deal too!  EDIT: Can I mail out money or does it have to be a check/money order?
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I wouldn't recommend mailing cash.
~Katie TEC #3511 tecnews.org webmaster pennycollector.com image editor baseball penny collector
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Katie wrote:I wouldn't recommend mailing cash. Okay, I'll get a money order! I'm mailing out the form tomorrow : )
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Coldgears wrote:Can I still sign up for the club, or am I wasting my money. Will I still get my pennies? Hey, Coldgears, welcome to the TEC forums! Trust me as someone that just joined TEC, it's well worth the money you'll spend on dues (which ain't much!) and, yes, you'll get a bunch of ECs as a new member. It's very cool!
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Oh, by the way, Coldgears, will you share a little about your collection? Are you just getting into it or do you already have a bunch? Any subject that you specialize in? I've posted some info about my collection size in some other threads so I won't repeat it here... 
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Coldgears - I added a photo to the main page of the latest TEC News issue to the main page 
~Katie TEC #3511 tecnews.org webmaster pennycollector.com image editor baseball penny collector
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Very nice, Katie! I hope coldgears comes back to appreciate it  (And again, I love the bonus smileys!)
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TECcjr wrote:Oh, by the way, Coldgears, will you share a little about your collection? Are you just getting into it or do you already have a bunch? Any subject that you specialize in? I've posted some info about my collection size in some other threads so I won't repeat it here... I have a full penny collector book and one page of another book filled in. I live near philly so I have both of the philly editions, sadly the first edition is sold out... I only have the 2nd and 3rd. I have no specific type I am collecting. I just want to have as much as possible! I love the picture on the webpage, if I would have seen that at first I would have noticed that this club is still up and running! I think it will help a lot of other people who aren't sure too! I sent it out a few days ago and I am eagerly waiting the welcome package... I have signed up for two years. ( I wanted to sign up for one year but my dad signed a check for two because he said, "It's cheap enough". )
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Two years is definitely the way to go, and I don't doubt you'll be excited when you get your welcome kit with a bunch of ECs  I started storing my squishies in those tri-fold penny books, but if you start scoring lots of pennies through eBay, you soon discover it's a pretty expensive way to store 'em. I started this thread about it, which has links and stuff in case you're interested... Regardless, congrats, coldgears!
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Hey Coldgears, I have a Philadelphia first edition Pennycollector.com album I'd be willing to part with, for $4 or a trade...?
If you're interested send me an email (bgastfriend@yahoo.com).
But, as I'm sure you'll find out, or as other will/have told you, the albums get to be bulky and expensive compared to other storage methods. But collecting the albums (and the ECs sealed in the fronts) is cool nonetheless.
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bgastfriend wrote:Hey Coldgears, I have a Philadelphia first edition Pennycollector.com album I'd be willing to part with, for $4 or a trade...?
If you're interested send me an email (bgastfriend@yahoo.com).
But, as I'm sure you'll find out, or as other will/have told you, the albums get to be bulky and expensive compared to other storage methods. But collecting the albums (and the ECs sealed in the fronts) is cool nonetheless. I'm really curious as to what the album actually looks like. They ran out of copies on pennycollector.com long before I first visited it. They are also running out of the second editions (only 7 left). I searched the internet for hours for a picture, but the results came up with more stuff about phildelphia and it's attractions rather then the coin book. Could you take a picture?
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 There you go.
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Do you collect trifolds like this, Ben? I'm so new to ECs that I've never seen (noticed?) books with pennies in the cover before, just the plain ones I've purchased. This is a pretty cool cover.
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To answer your question, I don't actively seek out new elongateds, from theme parks, etc, so I don't really collect the books. I removed the elongateds from the few I had because of PVC concern, and to make my collection more centralized in one location.
I'll get ECs from parks if I go there, but I try to focus my attention on oldies (1893-1965) and on specific topics I can build exhibits upon. Presidents are especially fun. There's alot of JFK and FDR material out there, as well as alot of Nixon (with a slightly more negative connotation than the former 2). I have pretty comprehensive sets of those three presidents, and I'm working on complete sets of the early World's Fairs (1893, 1901, 1904, 1933, and 1939-40), as well as anything TEC, especially the vintage stuff... you can just feel the history in your hand.
Another thought I have for a collecting focus is to try to obtain all the material of a certain roller. Angelo Rosato's Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated is a great reference for this. Rollers like Dow, the House of Elongateds (Lee Martin), Ralph Jones, Ralph W. Jobe, and Lloyd Wagaman are benchmark rollers with disctinctive styles, and in today's standards, their amount of material is relatively small, and possible to obtain in full.
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By the way, Pennycollector.com is the site that produces virtually all of the penny-in-the-cover tri-folds. Check out their website; there are a bunch...
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bgastfriend wrote:To answer your question, I don't actively seek out new elongateds, from theme parks, etc, so I don't really collect the books. I removed the elongateds from the few I had because of PVC concern, and to make my collection more centralized in one location.
I'll get ECs from parks if I go there, but I try to focus my attention on oldies (1893-1965) and on specific topics I can build exhibits upon. Presidents are especially fun. There's alot of JFK and FDR material out there, as well as alot of Nixon (with a slightly more negative connotation than the former 2). I have pretty comprehensive sets of those three presidents, and I'm working on complete sets of the early World's Fairs (1893, 1901, 1904, 1933, and 1939-40), as well as anything TEC, especially the vintage stuff... you can just feel the history in your hand.
Another thought I have for a collecting focus is to try to obtain all the material of a certain roller. Angelo Rosato's Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated is a great reference for this. Rollers like Dow, the House of Elongateds (Lee Martin), Ralph Jones, Ralph W. Jobe, and Lloyd Wagaman are benchmark rollers with disctinctive styles, and in today's standards, their amount of material is relatively small, and possible to obtain in full. What sort of older TEC stuff do you have? I am trying to compile reference pages for a lot of the TEC releases (Membership Coins and Convention Badges were already set up when I took over the website) but am having trouble finding items outside of what I have from my own collection. I'm always looking for what others have - even if its just one coin it is a step in the right direction
~Katie TEC #3511 tecnews.org webmaster pennycollector.com image editor baseball penny collector
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bgastfriend wrote:I'll get ECs from parks if I go there, but I try to focus my attention on oldies (1893-1965) and on specific topics I can build exhibits upon. Presidents are especially fun. There's alot of JFK and FDR material out there, as well as alot of Nixon (with a slightly more negative connotation than the former 2). I have pretty comprehensive sets of those three presidents, and I'm working on complete sets of the early World's Fairs (1893, 1901, 1904, 1933, and 1939-40), as well as anything TEC, especially the vintage stuff... you can just feel the history in your hand.
Another thought I have for a collecting focus is to try to obtain all the material of a certain roller. Angelo Rosato's Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated is a great reference for this. Rollers like Dow, the House of Elongateds (Lee Martin), Ralph Jones, Ralph W. Jobe, and Lloyd Wagaman are benchmark rollers with disctinctive styles, and in today's standards, their amount of material is relatively small, and possible to obtain in full. Wow, that is what I call a highly focused, "I know what I'm after" collection, Ben. And here, I'm thinking about focusing on stuff I "like," such as Halloween or pirates... Seems pretty trivial compared to you  Just curious, but given the lack of documentation, how can you be sure you have "all" of some subject, regardless of what you want to specialize in? (That's a broader question and not just focused on you and your interests, Ben.) While it's my perception that there's better documentation of the older stuff, is it possible to ever have the definitive collection on a particular subject? Poor Katie's struggles just to catalog the TEC stuff, for instance, is a good example of how challenging this appears to be. Anyway, thanks for sharing what your interests are, Ben. Chris
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You're absolutely right, Chris.
You can never be positively sure that you have a complete set, unless the roller has specifically told you so.
But that adds to the fun!
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