We all can claim to be numismatists, but other than your profession, are you another "ist"

golddustin · November 2, 2005 4:03AM

I am also an aquariaist ( I'm pretty sure that's the spelling)....I have a 30 gallon "community" tank, and I raise pure-bred "bumble-bee" fancy tail guppies that I trade back to the fish store for plants, supplies, other fish, etc. The nice thing is that with all the kids having moved out, I have an extra room where I keep my computer, copy stand, some coins ( a good many coins...), and 2 aquariums. Needless to say, I spend alot of time in that room! Just curious about what other enthusiasms we've got along with our coins.

Chuck

mgoodm3 · November 2, 2005 4:05AM

I'm a cyclist and a coin photographerist.

MikeInFL · November 2, 2005 4:09AM

I'm a fisherman-ist, photographer-ist, golf-ist, and aquarist....Mike

kieferscoins · November 2, 2005 4:11AM

Military manuals and a new passion: Micro Machines (I played with them a ton when I was a kid back around 89-94 and am starting to collect them).

Cameron Kiefer

itsnotjustme · November 2, 2005 4:12AM

Do pessimist and optimist count?

ecos · November 2, 2005 4:13AM

All around cyclist, parttime Geologist, full-time Archaeologist

Regulated · November 2, 2005 4:15AM

I'm a lousy guitarist.

1jester · November 2, 2005 4:16AM

I'm a teacherist, among other things.

golddustin · November 2, 2005 4:20AM

Ecos - I always wanted to be an archaeologist when I was younger - I had an uncle who lived near Fort Ligonier and would go on digs with him - never found any coins, but lots of other stuff. It was great fun!!
Cameron - I think we could include "Olsenist" ?

coinlieutenant · November 2, 2005 4:22AM

Yep...meteorologist.

dthigpen · November 2, 2005 4:24AM

Sure... Pessimist, Cynist, etc....

bikenut · November 2, 2005 4:31AM

I'm a cyclist also....and a vacationist. I do bicycle tours solo or with a companion. I've done the Alaska highway from Fairbanks to Seattle......1,500 miles in Europe a few years ago.....a tandem trip in Iceland....Morrocco for three weeks....and right here in my backyard last year, !,000 miles in New England in just over two weeks. This February I'm heading to New Zealand for a month. I take my tent and sleeping bag and camp outside whenever possible. I'd like to hear from other coin collectorcyclist......
Denis

ecos · November 2, 2005 4:47AM

golddustin - being an archaeologist is cool. I have found a few coins in my digs, but I am still waiting for something really outstanding. Recently I have found a New Jersey Colonial Copper and a German states coin (I don't have the specifics with me ATM) on a 18th to 19th centruy town site in New Jersey. The entire town is now gone; it never made it big again after the Rev war stopped in for a visit. Just the other week, I found a Mercury dime on a site here in Philadelphia. The last two digits of the date were worn, but the head sure looked like the head of the 1916.

The problem with finding cool coins in my business is that after you find them, they go into a plastic bad to be mishandled by lab people and put in a box never to see the light of day. Quite depressing!!!

Bikenut, those tours sound awesome! I have tourned Nova Scotia with only a tent and sleeping bag. Mostly, I race road and cyclocross. Turn on you PM function and we can chat about it!

Weiss · November 2, 2005 4:55AM

Yepper. Since the machine we use when metal detecting is called a "detector", and you don't want to call someone who participates in the hobby a "detectorer", I call myself and others in the hobby a "detectorist".

bikenut · November 2, 2005 5:03AM

Sorry, I'm new to this forum. I haven't used the PM function....

MrKelso · November 2, 2005 5:05AM

<< I am also an aquariaist ( I'm pretty sure that's the spelling)....I have a 30 gallon "community" tank, and I raise pure-bred "bumble-bee" fancy tail guppies that I trade back to the fish store for plants, supplies, other fish, etc. The nice thing is that with all the kids having moved out, I have an extra room where I keep my computer, copy stand, some coins ( a good many coins...), and 2 aquariums. Needless to say, I spend alot of time in that room! Just curious about what other enthusiasms we've got along with our coins.

Chuck >>

I have several large and several small tanks, I like to raise betta splendid and some fancy gupp's. Coins? i have hundreds.

airplanenut · November 2, 2005 5:13AM

I'm becoming a rocket scientist

Dennis88 · November 2, 2005 5:19AM

philatelist
cyclist
soccerfanist

Dennis

golddustin · November 2, 2005 5:21AM

MrKelso - My hat's off to ya on raising bettas - I tried it when I was a teenager - quite time consuming! I think that I got 4 mature adult fish out of the entire hatch - but the breeding process was absolutely amazing to watch.

JDelage · November 2, 2005 5:21AM

I'm not yet a numismatist - one day, hopefully.

In the meantime, I'm an Objectivist (or on my way to become one).

kiyote · November 2, 2005 5:27AM

<< I'm a cyclist also....I've done the Alaska highway from Fairbanks to Seattle >>

I just did that trip, From CA to Fairbanks... DRIVING. Cycling must have taken forever!

Other than that, I'm a wanna anthropologist/primatologist. (I'm working on my Anthro degree while volunteering at a chimp center)

anablep · November 2, 2005 5:30AM

biologist

amatuer paleontologist

star wars fan"ist"

vega1 · November 2, 2005 5:34AM

Guitarist. I use the term losely though, based on the fact that I own 3 guitars and can play the beginning of many many songs, and even the middle of some.

Edited to correct spelling... I *own* 3 guitars, I did not *won* them.

elwood · November 2, 2005 5:52AM

realist

bikenut · November 2, 2005 5:55AM

It was about 2100 miles total. I did it in 30 days. I slept outside about 20 of the days...it rained a lot. The highway is paved all the way but it's constatly under construction in the summer months. It was loose gravel at times. I've had a great time seeing the world on my bike. I also commute to work on it almost year round. The winters are a little dicey here in New England. Biking during a snowstorm is challenging. I'm 51 years old and look forward to travel and improving my PCGS lincoln set. To date I have over 100 different dates in 63 RED or better...... And to reply to another thread, I know that the more I improve my set the pricier it'll be...and the more difficult. But it doesn't matter to me.
The glory is in the chase....

JRocco · November 2, 2005 5:55AM

I am a golfist also- and I always have to laugh when I go out to play with a good friend on a bad windy day----He always says---"Don't worry- I am not going to let this wind keep my score low today---

keets · November 2, 2005 6:04AM

Amatuer Naturalist and sometimes forum protagonist/antagonist.

LanLord · November 2, 2005 6:11AM

Does a freelance gynocologist count?

messydesk · November 2, 2005 6:28AM

<--- hornist.

seanq · November 2, 2005 6:29AM

<< realist >>

I'm also a plaigarist.

Sean Reynolds

TwoSides2aCoin · November 2, 2005 7:01AM

I am a humorist . And some of you people's answers were great

They got me laughing, anyway.

<----guitarist... to escape the world
<--- pessimist... when people don't agree with me
<----optimist... when they do
<----plagiarist... when with the educated
<----A great Linguist... when I'm not.

DCAM · November 2, 2005 7:48AM

Gamist Battlefield 1942 rules.

ATF Clan

techeff · November 2, 2005 7:52AM

I'm one of the two Bobs...

Geoman · November 2, 2005 7:56AM

Yep - Geologist

mirabela · November 2, 2005 7:58AM

I'm a banjoist and a fictionist. Here's my latest short-short story:

Alternative Ed

At the Bog School we stayed outside. There was tons of hard work. The kids built it from the wreck of an old hill farm, with the stuff they found. They read only the most dangerous books. Nothing was taught without debating its civic and social implications. We left them unsupervised plenty, and they bloomed. Everything was provocative. I thought I was Socrates. Then the South America trip ended at around the 30th army roadblock. The hitchhiker with the sack of carrots? They were hollow, packed with coke. We made our phonecall from behind bars in La Paz, and the parents got a phone tree going. The embassy got in on it. Money changed hands until one by one the kids flew home. I was the last one out; when I got back there was no Bog School. That was my hemlock, I guess. It was May of '73. But the signs are up again at all the co-ops, and the old barn has been singing with hammers and saws all summer. I think we'll get her back running yet. Certain kinds of corruption can only sleep for so long.

**

FinallyHere · November 2, 2005 8:03AM

Guitarist, been playing for 27 years and did some studio work while in college. Still play several times per week and it's as relaxing and fun today as it was 27 years ago!

Some terrific answers here!! A great question and kudos to golddustin for thinkin' it up!

jabba · November 2, 2005 8:04AM

Im a machinist and 1/4 mile specialist.

Blade · November 2, 2005 8:17AM

eonologist (which is a wine scientist, but 99% of the time I am collecting and drinking it)

MrSpud · November 2, 2005 8:28AM

My current job title is Senior Scientist

packyman · November 2, 2005 8:41AM

i'm an artIST.

BBN · November 2, 2005 8:50AM

<< I am also an aquariaist ( I'm pretty sure that's the spelling)....I have a 30 gallon "community" tank, and I raise pure-bred "bumble-bee" fancy tail guppies that I trade back to the fish store for plants, supplies, other fish, etc. The nice thing is that with all the kids having moved out, I have an extra room where I keep my computer, copy stand, some coins ( a good many coins...), and 2 aquariums. Needless to say, I spend alot of time in that room! Just curious about what other enthusiasms we've got along with our coins.

Chuck >>

Aquarist here too. I had a 55g salt-water tank and 75 fresh but shut the freshwater down and converted it to salt-water. I hated doing that. I had 4 silver dollars(the fish variety)

that I had become attached to that I had for about 3 years. My 75g mairne aquarium has been a success so far after 4 months and my corals are thriving nicely.

Besides that I've been lifting weights for about 20 years. Competitive powerlifting for a few years but the poor shoulders just couldn't handle it anymore. Bad tendonitis set in so now I'm back to just being another weenie gymrat.

RedneckHB · November 2, 2005 8:55AM

<< Yep...meteorologist. >>

MikeInFL · November 2, 2005 8:56AM

<< Gamist Battlefield 1942 rules.

ATF Clan >>

Wow. Didn't expect to find any others here. I've competed in several BF clans, Infamy and RoM most recently, under the name Leadfoot...Mike

nwcs · November 2, 2005 8:56AM

Can we separate Ist from Ers? Sounds like a gender battle.

nwcs · November 2, 2005 8:57AM

<< All around cyclist, parttime Geologist, full-time Archaeologist >>

Cool! I have always wanted to go back into school for archaeology. Probably won't happen but I have always enjoyed the study and research and discovery involved. Working with the govt would suck, though.

BAJJERFAN · November 2, 2005 9:50AM

Chem-ist!!

thewiz1969 · November 2, 2005 2:27PM

Another aquarist here (55g salt w/30g sump).....

I am also a professional amatuer statistician(ist) and amatuer psychologist (aka a poker player).

-Mark

fountainheadgold · November 2, 2005 2:29PM

I tested trident subs

Conder101 · November 3, 2005 2:04AM

Mirabela

I like the story. Something that brief often has problems holding together an keeping the readers interest. This one worked well. I wouldn't mind trying some more of your works.

RalphP13 · November 3, 2005 2:49AM

I'm a procrastinatist.

Sorry, meant to reply yesterday

Ralph

coppercoins · November 3, 2005 4:44AM

Artist, (non-pro) meteorologist.

We all can claim to be numismatists, but other than your profession, are you another "ist"

Comments

Leave a Comment

We all can claim to be numismatists, but other than your profession, are you another &quot;ist&quot;

Comments

Leave a Comment

We all can claim to be numismatists, but other than your profession, are you another "ist"