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  • MrScienceMrScience Posts: 757 ✭✭✭
    Great thread! I collected coins until adolescent pursuits
    and other hobbies distracted me. Thanks in part to my
    son's interest in statehood quarters, I picked up the hobby
    again after an almost three decade absence. Too bad I
    missed the early '80s and '90s booms in the coin market....

    Anyway, all my degrees are in physics:

    B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    M.S. The Ohio State University
    Ph.D. The Ohio State University

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  • UCCS Beth-El school of nursing image Never used it a day in my life as sad as that is to say image Married while still in college and then had babies and stayed home image....I like that part of it though. I just started coin collection a few months ago really. Tried to dip into it when I was about 10 or 11 but didn't really get too far. Now I hope my kids will be interested in it and carry it on to their kids, etc, etc.
    Live like you were dying.
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    Bridget
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    (My beautiful children!!)
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    BS - Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee
    MS - Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts
    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • B.Sc. Human Biology, University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. class of 83 Did not collect then
    There is nothing more powerful than the power of goodbye
  • BS in Computer Science from Boston College 1985.
    At the time I would buy an occasional circ Lincoln for my whitman album which was all I could afford at the time.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BS Computer Science and Mathematics - Carroll College (Waukesha, WI) 1988
    MS Computer Science - Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) 1992

    I maintained the collection I had while in college, bought annual stuff from the mint. Started buying more random things in '89 when I had money to spend. Didn't get into Morgan dollar varieties until about 1995.
  • Cambridge U.K.
    collecting since 1982
  • Coinhusker1Coinhusker1 Posts: 3,560
    B.S. Math & Economics, University of Nebraska, 1986

    Collected since I was 8 years old. Not very active between college and 2003, only bought mint and proof sets from the mint. I'm glad I missed the crazy run-up in 1989, but wish I started up again sooner (like 1998 instead of 2003).
  • MercMerc Posts: 1,646 ✭✭
    Wow, so many colleges. I am also surprised by the number of PhD's

    For me,
    B.S. OSU '96
    M.S. OSU '99
    Ph.D. University of Florida '04

    No collecting during my undergrad years. I went back into coins during my grad school years. I wish I could still buy coins at 1998 prices.
    Looking for a coin club in Maryland? Try:
    FrederickCoinClub
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    BS (Accounting)--Fairfield University
    JD (law)-- Quinnipiac University Law School
    LL.M. (master of laws in taxation)--New York University Law School
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭✭✭
    University of Rochester BA 1975

    Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons MD 1979

    I have collected since I was 7 but had NO disposable income until I was 35 when I started buying better early type coins.
    Dr Mikey
    Commems and Early Type
  • MJPHELANMJPHELAN Posts: 799 ✭✭✭
    BS University of Michigan
    MD University of Michigan
    Internship: St. Joseph Hospital
    Ophthalmology Residency: University of Michigan

    Started collecting at age 8

    Collected mostly debts in school though
    Mark
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,561 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1974 High School - Denver, Colorado.
    1978 BA - Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado (where Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid was filmed).
    1981 JD - Univ. Of The Pacific, McGeorge School Of Law, Sacramento, Cal.

    Started collecting at 7 in 1963 and continued through college graduation (my nicest acquisition as a during this time period is an 1830 XF toned Bust Half). Started collecting again 6+ years ago after seeing a hotel marquee advertising a regional coin show (I had never been to a coin show and became curious about what I would find there) and stopping by to check it out.

    Reading this thread reveals many forumites with law degrees. I wonder how many are practicing lawyers.
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    BS from Georgia Institute of Technology 1993, and no I didn't collect then...Mike
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    BS, Computer & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 1986
    Collection... Mainly Whitman Folders. Occaisionally went to a show at the Polish Community Center in Albany.

    MCIS, University of Denver, 1991
    Was adding proof sets as they were produced.
    Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!
  • B.S. Mining Engineering - University of Alabama 1974

    I have been collecting off and on since I was 8.
  • KUCHKUCH Posts: 1,186
    Associate degree Miami Dade Junior College- no collecting-busy playing varsity golf - 2 time All American.
  • cswcsw Posts: 432
    BA -- Hillsdale College 1984
    MA -- Purdue University 1988
    JD -- Indiana University (Bloomington) 1991

    I was on a collecting hiatus at the time.
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    Tiger trout, Deerfield River, c. 2001.

  • DJCDJC Posts: 787
    Graduated from tech school for CAD about three years ago... currently pursuing B. Arch from Florida Atlantic/Indian River. I've "restarted" collecting since finishing tech school...had been on a 5+ year hiatus before.
  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    University of Rhode Island 1985....collected before and after but not during...money for coins was reallocated to other things...books, etc. ( I threw that in case my Dad sees this post)...

    ANA LM
  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cal '75

    I feel severly undereducated when I look at all the post grad degrees on this thread. I just better be quiet.image

    editted. Stopped collecting in high school and missed the coin fun of the late 70's and late 80's as I was collecting Corvettes.
    Have a nice day
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sooner born...
    Sooner bred...
    And when I die...
    I'll be a Sooner dead

    Go Oklahoma, go Oklahoma, go Oklahomaaaaa...
    Go OU.

    BA University of Oklahoma 1976 in "Would you like fries with that?" (Better known as History)


    Buying was sharply curtailed but stayed active in different clubs.
    Jim

    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I attended the University of MD for one year (64-5) and was asked not to return, due to lack of achievement.

    This was at a time when I was focused on vest pocket dealing in coins and did not study.

    I started collecting in the 7th grade and it has been part of my life for the last 47 years.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

    eBaystore
  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Northwestern - Evanston, Illinois - Home of the 2005 NCAA National Womens Lacrosse Champions as per yesterday's win over Virginia - the first time a school outside of the Eastern Time Zone has taken the national title.

    Also attended California Western Law School in San Diego.

    Not a serious collector of coins back in those days though.
  • University of Vietnam 69-70--- B.S. Business- Stonehill College, N.Easton, Massachusetts - Class 1980
    ANA 1197201
    Vietnam Vet 69-70 - Semper Fi

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