I also had a captains license for running charters which I let lapse. I still fish Lake Michigan for Salmon and Trout but do not run charters. Can’t wait for the spring and the Coho run! I also started a company producing trolling flies for the Great Lakes which I ran for 10 years.
USAF (Ret) 1974 - 1994 - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
@ironmanl63 said:
I also had a captains license for running charters which I let lapse. I still fish Lake Michigan for Salmon and Trout but do not run charters. Can’t wait for the spring and the Coho run! I also started a company producing trolling flies for the Great Lakes which I ran for 10 years.
Awesome! I’ve fished Michigan, Erie, and Ontario for salmon and steelhead.
Formerly a VP for an Aerospace Electronics company, retired thirteen years ago. Now a firearms instructor and part time business consultant. Been collecting for 65 years or so....On and off as life and career moves in different countries and states had effects. Watching it snow here right now, so might be a day to check some of the things on my coin list. Cheers, RickO
I am a flight test engineer. I’ve done a lot of cool stuff in the past 18 years.
My first real purchase was a First in Flight Centennial gold coin I bought when I got my first job with the Air Force in 2003. A few months later I got married and was looking for a gift for my best man who was an natural biologist. I wanted to get him the 2003 national wildlife refuge 4 coin set but only the last one was available. I had to go on eBay and pay DOUBLE the price for the other three. I thought to myself, if I was willing to pay more for a coin I could have got from the mint, why don't I start buying/selling coins as a hobby. So, I started a business for tax purposes and haven't looked back. The past few years have been relatively quiet as my job has taking up way too much of my time.
30 year residential loan officer, I still love it everyday. I've collected since 197 I. I was 10 yrs old and broke both my legs, laid up for 2 months and a neighborhood friend of my parents brought me 2 cigar boxes full of wheat cents to sort through, I was hooked from the start.
I work as a ceramic/materials engineer, currently in the aerospace industry. Started collecting when I was in 1st grade and have been studying numismatics ever since
I started collecting as a child in the early 1980s mostly just odd pocket stuff like $2 bills centennial coins my parents would get me some of those collectibles
I’m a machinist I’ve been doing it for 31 years now 24 years with my current employer. I started in aerospace making gear boxes and turbine wheels for APUs and military jets and tanks then moved into electronic materials division we make sputtering targets for the microchip makers now. It’s very gratifying taking a raw piece of material and turning it into a useful product that everyone needs
Senior Software Implementation Engineer for a company that makes online banking software.
I also have a side gig as Texas Regional Representative for ANACS Coin Grading.
I got into coins 40+ years ago.
You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
Retired from the commercial nuclear power industry after 30 years. Dad got my brother and I started by buying a proof and uncirculated mint set for us every year for Christmas.
This past week I started setting up a forum for a client. I was configuring their system with regard to how one earns points, badges, levels, etc -- and I thought about how this forum does it to help guide those decisions.
My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.
Aerospace engineering 35 years. Best part has been working with people from dozens of countries, all corners of the globe. Collecting since I was 6 out of circulation, for about 40 years from coin shops, shows, and auctions.
Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
I actually worked in the 'last nuclear reactor facility in the U.S. , housed in a wooden framed building',
but that was a few years ago,
Still working as professional engineer, 26 years at current employer.
Plastic surgeon in Florida- hence the screen name. Collecting since 14 when my Dad took me to coin shows in the 80s. Took a long hiatus from the hobby during med school, residency and starting a practice. Mainly collect type coins, dollars and early proof coins. Greetings from the Sunshine State!
I've been buying and selling coins for 5 years now, have been collecting for about 10 years, and learning about them through out my whole life, whether I liked it or not haha.
Producing music has also been a passion of mine. Produced for a couple big names in the industry, Mainly Rap and Hip/hop, it was a great time!
For the Coins, I remember counting coins with my father and looking at them at the dinner table with him. At the time it was the most boring thing I could of been doing as a pre teen, But the information stuck! A wife and two kids later, Decided to focus on the Coin Buying and Selling. Landed a Job at a Major Coin Store in a big city as an apprentice by mistake which was great! now I focus on my family while I show my kids the coin and music business.
Horizontal Directional Drilling, or HDD. The company i'm working for now is mainly doing fiber optic cable, but in the past i've put in everything, water mains and services, Gas mains and services, electric cables, sewers (both force mains and gravity flow). You name it, if it can be bored in, i've done it. I'm 42, and have been collecting since i was 9.
@d9lowe said:
I work in paper converting. I make paper towels and toilet paper for a living!! Started stacking 7 years ago, into numismatics for the last 2.
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Was it true that tp was in short supply when Covid came around during the summer?
I know at the beginning everyone was stockpiling.
@ricko said:
Formerly a VP for an Aerospace Electronics company, retired thirteen years ago. Now a firearms instructor and part time business consultant. Been collecting for 65 years or so....On and off as life and career moves in different countries and states had effects. Watching it snow here right now, so might be a day to check some of the things on my coin list. Cheers, RickO
I imagine the firearm's business has been picking up due to recent events the past few years. Do your classes keep you pretty busy?
@ironmanl63 said:
Union Ironworker out of Chicago Local 63.
Hell yeah brotha!. I've been non union for two years but just signed some papers a few weeks ago and gonna be out in the field for the indy local 22 !
I've put a lot of pipe in the ground around Indy, moved back to Michigan in 2015 though.
Awesome!, I seen you made a comment about drilling.
There's a job goin on at the naval base where there drilling a 350+ft hole to test the propulsion on missiles. You ever done something like that . That would be pretty cool to see someone dig that massive of a hole.
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Horticulturist, bromeliad hybridizer.
US CFO for a food company. Collecting since 2010 or so.
Latin American Collection
I also had a captains license for running charters which I let lapse. I still fish Lake Michigan for Salmon and Trout but do not run charters. Can’t wait for the spring and the Coho run! I also started a company producing trolling flies for the Great Lakes which I ran for 10 years.
My title is senior director of development for a mid size medical software company. But in my heart of hearts I’m still just a software developer.
It’s funny, when I was a kid the last thing I really wanted to be was a developer even though I was very good at it. Funny how things go in life.
TurtleCat Gold Dollars
I was a Geotechnical Engineer before I retired but I still maintain my Professional Engineer License.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
I build rudders for ducks.
USAF (Ret) 1974 - 1994 - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
Awesome! I’ve fished Michigan, Erie, and Ontario for salmon and steelhead.
Student in high school
Young Numismatist/collector
75 Positive BST transactions buying and selling with 45 members and counting!
instagram.com/klnumismatics
Formerly a VP for an Aerospace Electronics company, retired thirteen years ago. Now a firearms instructor and part time business consultant. Been collecting for 65 years or so....On and off as life and career moves in different countries and states had effects. Watching it snow here right now, so might be a day to check some of the things on my coin list.
Cheers, RickO
Realtor in Hawaii
My wife loves bromeliads, consequently, we have lots of them all around our house:
I am a flight test engineer. I’ve done a lot of cool stuff in the past 18 years.
My first real purchase was a First in Flight Centennial gold coin I bought when I got my first job with the Air Force in 2003. A few months later I got married and was looking for a gift for my best man who was an natural biologist. I wanted to get him the 2003 national wildlife refuge 4 coin set but only the last one was available. I had to go on eBay and pay DOUBLE the price for the other three. I thought to myself, if I was willing to pay more for a coin I could have got from the mint, why don't I start buying/selling coins as a hobby. So, I started a business for tax purposes and haven't looked back. The past few years have been relatively quiet as my job has taking up way too much of my time.
30 year residential loan officer, I still love it everyday. I've collected since 197 I. I was 10 yrs old and broke both my legs, laid up for 2 months and a neighborhood friend of my parents brought me 2 cigar boxes full of wheat cents to sort through, I was hooked from the start.
I work as a ceramic/materials engineer, currently in the aerospace industry. Started collecting when I was in 1st grade and have been studying numismatics ever since
I expect that is a cool job. We need a COOL choice to be able to check along with AGREE, LIKE, etc.
Retired. Worked 37 years as a National Park Ranger. Been collecting Lincoln cents for over 50 years. No plans to stop now!
WS
I started collecting as a child in the early 1980s mostly just odd pocket stuff like $2 bills centennial coins my parents would get me some of those collectibles
I’m a machinist I’ve been doing it for 31 years now 24 years with my current employer. I started in aerospace making gear boxes and turbine wheels for APUs and military jets and tanks then moved into electronic materials division we make sputtering targets for the microchip makers now. It’s very gratifying taking a raw piece of material and turning it into a useful product that everyone needs
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
O to be a student again! 👌
Huh, and I thought bromeliads were some time of indigestion medecine.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
Senior Software Implementation Engineer for a company that makes online banking software.
I also have a side gig as Texas Regional Representative for ANACS Coin Grading.
I got into coins 40+ years ago.
Retired from the commercial nuclear power industry after 30 years. Dad got my brother and I started by buying a proof and uncirculated mint set for us every year for Christmas.
Is that Martha’s Vineyard?
Latin American Collection
Union Carpenter out of Lake County Local 250
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
Tourism related...
Many hobbies including photography, coins, baseball cards.
BST: KindaNewish (3/21/21), WQuarterFreddie (3/30/21), Meltdown (4/6/21), DBSTrader2 (5/5/21) AKA- unclemonkey on Blow Out
Some cool moments for sure
Got any openings? 😂
BHNC #248 … 108 and counting.
independent web developer / software engineer
This past week I started setting up a forum for a client. I was configuring their system with regard to how one earns points, badges, levels, etc -- and I thought about how this forum does it to help guide those decisions.
My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.
I'm a Numismatic Photographer. I've been collecting since I was 13 (1993).
Radiant Collection: Numismatics and Exonumia of the Atomic Age.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/3232
Do you do photography for our host ?
envy of every women
Kennedys are my quest...
His screen name makes it appear so.
So I will offer you a direct trade for your '94 and offer up a '52
Kennedys are my quest...
Only if it's got a green bean😉
Aerospace Engineer retired
and just to keep it coin orientated
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
A lot of educated, intelligent people with common sense here collect coins.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Aerospace engineering 35 years. Best part has been working with people from dozens of countries, all corners of the globe. Collecting since I was 6 out of circulation, for about 40 years from coin shops, shows, and auctions.
I actually worked in the 'last nuclear reactor facility in the U.S. , housed in a wooden framed building',
but that was a few years ago,
Still working as professional engineer, 26 years at current employer.
Collecting since the late 60's.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Plastic surgeon in Florida- hence the screen name. Collecting since 14 when my Dad took me to coin shows in the 80s. Took a long hiatus from the hobby during med school, residency and starting a practice. Mainly collect type coins, dollars and early proof coins. Greetings from the Sunshine State!
@Floridafacelifter
Which of those big boats is yours
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
I've been buying and selling coins for 5 years now, have been collecting for about 10 years, and learning about them through out my whole life, whether I liked it or not haha.
Producing music has also been a passion of mine. Produced for a couple big names in the industry, Mainly Rap and Hip/hop, it was a great time!
For the Coins, I remember counting coins with my father and looking at them at the dinner table with him. At the time it was the most boring thing I could of been doing as a pre teen, But the information stuck! A wife and two kids later, Decided to focus on the Coin Buying and Selling. Landed a Job at a Major Coin Store in a big city as an apprentice by mistake which was great! now I focus on my family while I show my kids the coin and music business.
Haha the little dinghy that provisions those monsters!
Horizontal Directional Drilling, or HDD. The company i'm working for now is mainly doing fiber optic cable, but in the past i've put in everything, water mains and services, Gas mains and services, electric cables, sewers (both force mains and gravity flow). You name it, if it can be bored in, i've done it. I'm 42, and have been collecting since i was 9.
College student with plans to be a professional numismatist
ANA-LM, CWTS-LM, NBS, TAMS, ANS
I've put a lot of pipe in the ground around Indy, moved back to Michigan in 2015 though.
It's really cool seeing all the diverse and complex profession's here. A forum of stand up people!
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Was it true that tp was in short supply when Covid came around during the summer?
I know at the beginning everyone was stockpiling.
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
I imagine the firearm's business has been picking up due to recent events the past few years. Do your classes keep you pretty busy?
Awesome!, I seen you made a comment about drilling.
There's a job goin on at the naval base where there drilling a 350+ft hole to test the propulsion on missiles. You ever done something like that . That would be pretty cool to see someone dig that massive of a hole.
I was just thinking the same thing. Between the intelligence, education and experience in this forum, we could build an empire.
I just assumed all of them!