Wishing everyone a smashing year!
I wanna give a big thanks here to Adam who helped me with my copper penny supplies!! 
I pressed a few coins on the PA turnpike with the coins (the cat mint can comes in handy too). Hopefully I’ll get to scan in those coins soon.
While driving through the Ohio Turnpike, I’ve noticed that many of the service area machines have been replaced. Next weekend, I’ll try to get a more recent set of coins from the turnpike. In the meanwhile, the status for the old coins are marked “retired”.
Here are some trades with Paul from the end of 2008:
New EC’s from Museum of Life and Science Durham, NC
I’m starting to rescan old images to match the new 150% standards. I don’t think it makes too much of a difference though… 
I’ve completed through Arizona.
Made a few changes to the site. Very minor, probably never noticed:
- I added the island names to the city list on the Hawaii page. Now everything is sorted by island first and city second.
- The website counter is now using “views” instead of “visitors”. Using visitors is not really accurate since each visitor clocks a few counts per visit.
- The categories on the right hand side now lists the number of posts.
- Exploris coin from Raleigh, NC is retired.
- There were a few typos on my trade list, so please ask me to verify the coins you would like when you ask for a trade. Thanks!
I’m not sure why but the site’s been receiving a lot of spam comments in the past few days. I’ve activated Askimet and hopefully that’ll take care of the problem.
My hard drive failed last month and I had to reformat a new one. In the process I lost my beloved Photoshop. I had an authentic copy but I lost the CD, so the new quest was on for searching a similar freeware.
The two that I found were:
- Picasa - This is a freeware by Google. I tried it and it works great, except it’s mainly for photo editing.
- GIMP - Yes, a highly inappropriate name (especially if you’ve seen Pulp Fiction), but is closer to Photoshop and therefore better for EC image editing.
Finally got through the whole US! So now mislabeled “retired” coins are corrected to “removed”.
I don’t think I’m going to extend this to the international coins… I can’t imagine anybody being good authority to decide on those status anyway.
Lisa pointed out during our last trade that I’m mixing retired and removed status. So I added the removed status into the database, but now I have to go through and double check all the coins that are currently labeled as retired. It’s a long process…
So far, up to Idaho are all corrected. To be continued…
Re-coded the trade list so it should run faster now. I’ve also organized it so that US coins come up first.
New and improved trade list is now available!
The trade list is now sorted by country, state, city, and location.
