A new service from World of Coins

[Figleaf]

Your French may not be sufficient to communicate, but there are situations where you wish you could have a French expert looking at your coin or question. Problem solved. Since today, we have two liaison officers.

You are all familiar with redwine. He's British, he lives in France, speaks French and he's an advanced collector. Exactly the sort of person you'd want to be a liaison officer. Now he is. In the future, you'll see him posting here on questions that went over to a French forum.

That French forum is numismatique.com. It is privately owned and non commercial (no coin dealer(s) running stuff.) They are strong on French coins. Their members are French-speaking. Their membership includes more metal detectorists than ours. However, their philosophy is compatible with ours.

Numismatique.com has also appointed a liaison officer, who is known in both fora as Paris. Paris is a young (hey, everybody is young in my eyes), cultured collector who knows his coins and speaks English. He's also instrumental in overhauling numismatique.com, so he knows what went on there.

Paris and redwine will maintain the communication channel. Simply put, whenever there's something on either side that would be of interest to the other forum, it gets posted there in the language of the other side, plus there's feedback in the original language on what was said on the other forum. For us, it means you get to pick the brains of French experts without having to speak the language. For them, it's the same thing vice versa. Mind that the liaison officers decide what passes through the channel, though I can't imagine them being obnoxious. Outside the channel, you are free to do what you want, of course, but you'll be on your own.

I have high expectations of our alliance.

Peter

[akona20]

This is rather wonderful news.

Given our research work there are a number of great experts in france and I hope they can help and assist from time to time.

I have a affinity with France, I like the wine, the cheese, the food and the people (Paris and the countryside is pretty good as well lol). Both grandfathers fought there in WW1 and given that my mother has a French first name I wonder what really happened.

[Guillaume Hermann]

Thanks Figleaf for this introduction.
French people are the majority on our forum, but Belgian are very important too.

We are currently transfering and re-titling topics from the past forum, it means almost 10 years archives... It is not finished yet, but when it will, it will be easier to use the archives for identification.

Sorry for the mistakes surely present in my English 

[redwine]

This is going to be fun! 
Please flag any topics you think I should pass on to our French friends.

Actually, I'm Welsh! 
And I've got a lot of French learning to do to catch up with the standard of Paris' English...............

[FosseWay]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I thought it made better sense to post this here than create a new one.

I am a member of swedishcoins.net, though I've yet to post anything there. I'm happy to pass on any Swedish (or wider Scandinavian) queries anyone has and if necessary translate them from/to Swedish.

[Figleaf]

That's just fine, FosseWay. Thanks. We organised the co-operation with Numismatique thoroughly and carefully, because it was a first. If the first results are any guide, we have hit on something good. Feel free to build on that. I do feel it would be advisable to involve the Swedish site owners in order to prevent misunderstandings. We're not into competition here, but into co-operation. Also, if I get the right feel of the membership here, they would want to restrict this to non-comercial sites, i.e. no sites owned by a dealer or otherwise used primarily to flog coins.

Peter

[FosseWay]

So far I've used the Swedish site to find answers to questions I had that are already there on the forum, so I haven't needed to post any questions. When I get round to it I'll introduce myself there and mention WoC as a a parallel international site.