The best coin related job.

Shamika

What would it be? A PCGS grader? A professional dealer? A mint employee?

For me, I'd LOVE to be a curator for a national collection. I suppose something at the Smithsonian would fit the bill.

jonesy

Nope!! You'd be fired for taking the coins home!!

nwcs

Coin photographer. You get to see all the best coins, a wide range of coins, and see them for more than 10-20 seconds. And you get to keep a copy of all the pictures you take!

fivecents

To have the knowledge and the resources to be a professional crackout artist.

originalisbest

How about being a toll booth operator? I'd enjoy that, I think. You aren't allowed to dip into the till of course, but I think you're allowed to exchange face value for face value.

relayer

BBS poster

foodude

HRH has a pretty cool job, well at least most of his job seems pretty cool ....

airplanenut

I enjoy photography very much... got to photograph for Pinnacle and Rick Kay at Baltimore

mgoodm3

I prefer to keep it as a hobby. Don't want to spoil it by being work.

stujoe

<< <i>The best coin related job. >>



Self Employed Buyer.

bigbadchad777

toll booth operator; vending, gum ball machine coin box emptier.
get to pick through them.

Cam40

CoinStar machine owner/operator.

njcoincrank

My job.

I do what I want, attend the shows I want, buy the coins I want, keep the coins I want.

It does have it's downside. Time away from family, travel, etc.

But it's a job I have dreamed of since I was in the 8th grade.

njcoincrank

Shamika

"my dream job is to run a major auction house"

That's a good one!

1957joe

my dream job would be to win the powerball and go into coin collecting full time.

topstuf

Mint engraver.

Good pay and OUTRAGEOUS retirement benefits for a life of mediocre accomplishments and plenty of vacation/sick/personal/ holiday/hangnail days off.

Woodwind

There are a lot of very nice coin-related jobs out there.

Considering the pay and exposure to all sorts of coins, I would think grader for a respected grading service (PCGS, NGC, ANACS) would be the best one.

Disneyland is also a haven for old US and foreign coins and currency. I know a Main Street employee who works a booth and is responsible for counting and rolling the day's take. She frequently sees Mercury dimes and other pre-1965 silver coins. She told me about a German tourist who paid for everything from stacks of crisp uncirculated $5 silver certificates from the 1920's. Turns out that way back when, a wealthy relative shipped thousands of dollars in these certificates over to their family in Germany to help them get by during their post WW1 economy. For years and years, they remained with the family until they decided to take a vacation to the US. Crazy.

MacCoin

<< <i>I prefer to keep it as a hobby. Don't want to spoil it by being work. >>



you got that right jobs ain't fun well unless you work in the sex trade

artdeco

A famous numismatist has been quoted countless times as saying, "I have never worked a day in my life."

If you love what you do, it is never work.

EvilMCT

<< <i>. . .that's ok - I love my job and wouldn't trade it for ANY other in this industry. >>



Wow, someone who actually enjoys their work. I had heard that there were people like that, but I always chalked it up to urband legend.

Ken

greghansen

Cherrypicker!

Pistareen

I have the job I've wanted since I was about 10 -- cataloguer and researcher for a major auction house. I get access to coins many people never get to handle, have the freedom to research and write about the most interesting ones, and get to interact with some of the brightest minds around. It's tough to think of it as work when the worst thing you get to do all day is write about Proof half cents or something ...