Am gonna retire
CaptHenway
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From the U.S. Coin forum:
And now, for my 10,000th Bulletin, I would like to announce that after 37 years as a professional numismatist, I will be retiring from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. sometime around the end of the year for reasons of declining health. Harlan has been wonderfully supportive of my physical needs and diminished abilities over the years, but it is time to go. I will remain available to the firm as a consultant for die varieties and authenticity, and perhaps a little writing. I will also continue to write for COINage and other venues in the future, and will continue to grace(?) these forums with my experience, my opinions and my bad jokes.
I expect to be at the ANA convention here in Chicago next Summer if anybody wants to say Hi.
Tom DeLorey
And now, for my 10,000th Bulletin, I would like to announce that after 37 years as a professional numismatist, I will be retiring from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. sometime around the end of the year for reasons of declining health. Harlan has been wonderfully supportive of my physical needs and diminished abilities over the years, but it is time to go. I will remain available to the firm as a consultant for die varieties and authenticity, and perhaps a little writing. I will also continue to write for COINage and other venues in the future, and will continue to grace(?) these forums with my experience, my opinions and my bad jokes.
I expect to be at the ANA convention here in Chicago next Summer if anybody wants to say Hi.
Tom DeLorey
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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Is it not amazing that for the past 30 years, we have been able to come not to work,
but to Play at our hobby and make a good living at it !??
After 28 years in Retail Store Front, I still do not consider this work... :-)
All the Best....
Dave Hall Small Town Co MI22
LM-ANA3242-CSNS308-MSNS226-ICTA
Enjoy your retirement!
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Retirement may be the ending of 1 thing, but at the same time is the beginning of another. As long as we can adapt to and accept the inevitable change that comes into our lives, we will be just fine, and it sounds like you will be just fine doing whatever it is you choose to do at this point. CONGRATS!!!
best of luck to you! Again, keep me posted if you stub your toe on a 50g Degussa Gold Bar!
CJ
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In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
See you at the Chicago gathering.
I hope you have time to post once in a while.
Enjoy.
OK, back to lurking.
<< <i>Dang, a lot of us like to read what you, and others like you, have to say. >>
Hope that your health improves and that you keep posting on the boards. Your post are often the " voice of reason" in many of the treads you comment on.
Thanks,
Dan
'When one door closes, another one opens, but we often look so long and regretfully at the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." Alexander Graham Bell.
I live by the next one:
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day
Glad you are not retiring from these forums.
I knew it would happen.
<< <i>Dang, a lot of us like to read what you, and others like you, have to say.
I hope you have time to post once in a while.
Enjoy.
OK, back to lurking.
Hey, I will have even more time to post.
I expect to hit 20,000 posts in 90 days!!!
TD
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<< <i>Dang, a lot of us like to read what you, and others like you, have to say.
I hope you have time to post once in a while.
Enjoy.
OK, back to lurking.
Hey, I will have even more time to post.
I expect to hit 20,000 posts in 90 days!!!
TD >>
Can't wait for more of your posts (and the 20K giveaway)!
Thanks once again, Capt.
Here's to a nice retirement and good health. I enjoy your knowledge and wittiness. Best of luck to you and don't be a stranger around here.
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I second that emotion. Heh, you're one of "us" now.
I knew it would happen.
--Severian the Lame
Mike
be the same. Perhaps when you settle into retirement you may want to take a jaunt to
Vegas for some R and R. If so, please let me know and we'll talk up the town!
Best wishes,
bob
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>Enjoy your retirement. You've certainly earned it. Do you think that you may try some part time coin dealing? >>
No, you have to travel a lot to do that successfully, and I hate traveling these days. I remember my first airplane flight, back in 1971. I put on a suit and a tie, and a nice stewardess served a hot meal on a linen napkin with a real knife and fork.
Today people get on the plane in their bare feet, and you are lucky
to get half a Coke and six mini-pretzels.
roadrunner
Congrats, Cap'n.
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<< <i>Enjoy your retirement. You've certainly earned it. Do you think that you may try some part time coin dealing? >>
No, you have to travel a lot to do that successfully, and I hate traveling these days. I remember my first airplane flight, back in 1971. I put on a suit and a tie, and a nice stewardess served a hot meal on a linen napkin with a real knife and fork.
Today people get on the plane in their bare feet, and you are lucky
to get half a Coke and six mini-pretzels. >>
Mine was about 10 years earlier, my Mother had us in suits, now you get a guy sitting next to you in cut offs and a wife beater t shirt.
I hope that your health improves are around for many years to enjoy your retirement!!
And congratulations.
I'm very pleased you'll continue to write and stay involved.
Sorry to hear about your health. I assume it is independent of your broken leg and it healed up OK.
Yep, flying was different. Personally Id much prefer to go hungry though than having to choke on all the darn cigarette smoke I had to endure back in those days. That was god awful.
I'm glad you're sticking around to post, I also enjoy your participation. Best of luck on your health.
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
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Proud recipient of two "You Suck" awards
Sorry to hear that your health isn't as good as you would like it to be.
I hope you keep posting here for a long, long time.
--Jerry