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

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

Do pessimist and optimist count?

I'm a lousy guitarist.

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

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!

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

I'm becoming a rocket scientist

<< <i>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)

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.

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....

<--- hornist.

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.

I'm one of the two Bobs...

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.

**

Im a machinist and 1/4 mile specialist.

My current job title is Senior Scientist

<< <i>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.

<< <i>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

<< <i>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.

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

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

-Mark

Artist, (non-pro) meteorologist.