Community Guidelines

The TNH forum exists so collectors at every level — from a first Zimbabwe trillion to a museum-grade cabinet — can learn from each other. Experts were beginners once; answer accordingly. Disagree about coins, not about people.

• Be accurate and honest, especially in identification and grading help — a wrong confident answer costs someone real money. Say when you're unsure.
• Disclose your interest: if you're discussing an item you're selling or bidding on, say so.
• Credit sources for images and research; don't post copyrighted catalogue scans wholesale.
• Keep threads on topic for their board; marketplace feedback goes in Auctions & Marketplace.
• Use content warnings for high-value collection reveals if you share identifying location details — think about your own security too.

• Scams and off-platform dealing: soliciting direct sales that bypass the marketplace, requesting payment by untraceable methods, or advertising external sale sites without permission.
• Deliberate misidentification or authentication sabotage (talking down an item to snipe it later).
• Harassment, hate speech, doxxing, or personal attacks — one warning at most, then removal.
• Shilling: undisclosed promotion of your own or an associate's listings, or coordinated hype.
• Counterfeit facilitation: asking how to make, age, or pass counterfeit or replica material as genuine. This is reported, not just removed.
• Spam, bulk self-promotion, AI-generated flooding, and off-topic commercial advertising.
• Price manipulation talk: coordinating bids or boycotts of specific auctions.

• Moderators (TNH team, marked with the TNH TEAM badge) may edit, lock, move, pin, or remove content, and warn, mute, suspend, or ban accounts.
• Enforcement is proportionate: honest mistakes get corrections; bad faith gets bans; illegality gets reported.
• Appeals: email community@thenumishouse.com within 30 days of an action; a different team member reviews.
• Moderation decisions on content do not affect your marketplace purchase rights, but fraud-related bans apply platform-wide.

Forum posts and collection showcases are public and indexable by search engines. You keep ownership of what you post and license it to TNH as described in the Terms of Service. If you close your account, your posts remain but are disassociated from your identity; you may request deletion of specific posts containing personal information via privacy@thenumishouse.com.