About
Site outages & shows.
I'm aware that the site regularly goes down for short periods of time. Usually at night AEST. I'm working on the issue, which I suspect as some type of virtual CPU usage leak. I'm aware it may affect sales. If you have items in your cart and the site drops out, please check back in the morning and you should be able to continue. I fix the outages as soon as I see them, which is as soon as I get behind the computer.
I'm booked to attend 4 shows in the near future as an exhibitor. These are the Gymea Show, Epping Stamps & Coins (which I am also organising), Wentworth Park Collectables Fair and the Wallsend Collectors Fair.
-Roman Belousov 20250729
I'll be attending the Gymea stamps & coins show Saturday August 2
As above. I'll have my usual selection of coins and banknotes and there will be a number of other dealers in attendance. Doors are at 9am. Hope to see you there.
There also an ongoing auction on Ebay right now. Various Australian and world coins, including silver.
-Roman Belousov 20250728
Upcoming collectors' fairs: Wallsend & Epping, News & forum.
I shall be attending the Newcastle/Wallsend Collectors Fair this Sunday, July 20 as an exhibitor. I am there as a stand-in for one of the regular exhibitors, who cannot make it this month, so this is not a regular position, but I'm happy to attend & help.
I have also, in partnership with a local collector Roman Jacewski, re-established the long-running Epping Stamps & Coins Fair. It will be held at a new venue in the same general vicinity as the old show. We hope to faithfully carry on the legacy of this fair, which from some reports has been running since the late 1970's. The first date will be Saturday, August 9.
Finally for this update, please note the Forum section of this website. I have started posting in the News section and once attendance rises, I plan to open the forum up for general discussion. I am even thinking of allowing trading in the forum, on par with what happens in private Facebook groups, but minus the rules & drama. Obviously there will be issues of dealing with spam and fraud, but I am a veteran and I have ideas. Let's see how we go.
-Roman Belousov 20250715
Site updates and Gymea collectors fair
I have updated the site to handle TLS connectivity and just the other day realised that I broke emailing by doing so. I have fixed it now and the site seems relatively stable, except for sporadic virtual CPU outages, which right now I am fixing manually until I get to the bottom of it. The broken email is probably why no-one could buy from me since the Paypal update. Please note, that you don't need to have a Paypal account to purchase from the site, they will process your credit or debit card, but will ask you annoying questions. I am working on alternatives as we speak.
I shall be attending the Gymea Stamp and Coin show as an exhibitor, on Saturday 5th of July.
-Roman Belousov 20250624
Paypal & shows
Yesterday I have attended the Wentworth Park Antiques Fair and for a first time, I feel it was a success. There was a lot of interest in my material and I have made some contacts. The show itself is an impressively-sized convention of all things antique, camp and collectable. It is well worth the visit, even though, you might not know what you want. The next one will be on Sunday August 10.
In other news, I have installed and started testing a Paypal hookup for my store. You may now (in theory) be able to purchase from this site, whether you have an account or not. Non-Paypal users will be prompted for their date of birth, which is annoying, but that information goes to them not to me.
If you encounter any problems, please contact me.
-Roman Belousov 20250609
Old Website
(Now that I'm reminded, I've had a website since I was 19) I am archiving the old website for now, as I cannot afford the effort to fix the multiple issues that have developed there over time. I intend to come back to coding the core functionality of it and expand it for use here. One idea, among many, is a sales index for popular coins such as the Red Poppy.
-Roman Belousov 20250529
SCDAA, markets & more
I am pleased to announce that I have been accepted into Stamp and Coin Dealers Association of Australasia Inc (SCDAA). As part of that I hope to at some stage, hopefully this year, be attending the Petersham Stamp & Coin Fair, for which there is a waiting queue.
The next show will be at 107 Crystal St, Petersham NSW on Sunday June 29, 2025. Petersham shows are generally held on every 5th Sunday of any calendar month that year.
In the meantime, I'll be attending the Newcastle Coins, Notes and Stamps Fair as a stall-holder. This show is on Sunday April 20, Pioneer Memorial Hall, 54 Cowper St, Wallsend NSW and is generally held every 3rd Sunday of the month.
I am in the process of updating this site to take advantage of a modern e-sales engine, which will greatly enhance the look and feel. I'm not too far away from launching it now, probably a month.
I continue to hold regular Ebay Auctoins. Please check in every week to see what's new. While I emphasize world coins and banknotes, there is always plenty of Australian material also.
-Roman Belousov 20250416
The beginning
I lost my IT consulting business right about COVID time in early 2020. It wasn't COVID's fault, but it nonetheless hurt. I was already dealing in coins at the time. Coins were my passion since I was a boy. I still have the first coin that I collected in my album. 1952 20k USSR Y# 118. There is nothing special about it, other than it is my first coin.
I found work for a local coin shop and one of the jobs I had to do was list a large number of graded coins for sale or auction. So, being a developer by trade, I wrote about 1000 lines of code to scrape PCGS coins, notes and NGC coins and return coin descriptions and values. Only PCGS coins are functional right now.
I'm temporarily offering you this app for free. There are many issues yet to be fixed, but I intend to monerise this mess once I have some time to tidy it up. Please note that login and signup probably don't work. Please contact me if you have any thoughts.
-Roman Belousov 20230213