What is the value of thisform.text1.value when you get the error?

>I have a Textbox which I have set the format to R and the inputmask to 99.99. When a figure is inserted and a button pressed the value is inserted into a table called winnings. Therefore the on click event on the button is:
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>IF thisform.Optiongroup1.value = 1
>	USE winnings
>	INSERT INTO 'winnings' (amount) ;
>  	 VALUES  (thisform.text1.value)	
>ENDIF
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>On the amount field in the winnings table I have set this to numeric but I am recieving a data type mismatch error. Can anybody help me please?