The Home Page usually contains - in addition to all the basic stuff - an article of topical interest. Or a heads up about an upcoming show. Or information about a special coin on the site.

Our Coin Commentary is kind of our 'Op Ed' piece where we get to say whatever we want. We hope you'll find it interesting and/or thought provoking. If you disagree with what we say, email us and tell us why. If you write something really good, maybe we'll go ahead and post that (with your permission, of course).

The Road Report feature (the most popular section of the site based on the feedback we get) contains a vivid (or at least semi-vivid) description of what we saw, did, experienced, bid on, bought and/or sold on our travels. We like to think of this as a cross between an old Rare Coin Review and an article by Dave Barry.

Next we have Our Coins, which we presume is the primary reason people visit a coin website - to see the coins. Our inventory presentation is different than most of what you'll find online in several ways:

• The selection of items is varied and contains things that you probably won't see anywhere else. Who knows, maybe you'll discover something interesting in a series or area that you hadn't considered before.

• We personally never enjoy hunting through search screens on dealer websites to find coins of potential interest, so we decided to put all of our inventory on one page so you can see it all without breaking a sweat or injuring yourself.

• Our pictures are the best we can possibly obtain, shot for us by the preeminent coin photographers in the business today.

• We endeavor to write the description of each item as it might have appeared in an old New Netherland's or Bowers and Ruddy auction catalog. We relate meaningful information about the coins' history and rarity, incorporating our own proprietary research where possible, in what we hope is an interesting and informative way. And you'll note that we use exclamation points only when absolutely necessary.

Next we have Our Archive, where you get to see all of the really cool coins that you missed. This is a work in progress still, as unfortunately we don't have good pictures of all of the coins that have passed through our hands through the years, and we decided that listing a coin in this section without a photo was no fun. We'll be adding some 'classics' to this section whenever we can, so keep an eye out for them.

A more recent addition is our Ad Archive, which we created based on input from our customers. Hey, we aim to give the people what they want, and they apparently wanted to see all of our old ads in one place. Click on the ads themselves and you can see what we were thinking when we wrote them.

And, of course, we can't forget our little black Early Bird button. Push it, and you too can have first shot at all of our latest acquisitions before they appear on the site.

And if anyone ever has any suggestions for what we can do better, we sure would like to hear them.

Dave Wnuck & John Agre