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What is hobby number two? Or maybe coins is hobby two.
JapanJohn
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What do you do outside of coin collecting?
I'm a bicycle riding, running, scuba diving, camera collecting nut. Carry a camera almost everywhere.
Few years ago I was a chip eating, remote control operating guru. Doctor told me when I was 40 I'd never see 50. Stupid doctor. I got off the couch one day, lost 100 lbs. and now I can't tolerate just laying around anymore. Today was supposed to be a rest day for me but I'm suited up to run an easy 3 or 4 miles and will go to the local park later to break in a couple of new cameras I just got this week.
John
I'm a bicycle riding, running, scuba diving, camera collecting nut. Carry a camera almost everywhere.
Few years ago I was a chip eating, remote control operating guru. Doctor told me when I was 40 I'd never see 50. Stupid doctor. I got off the couch one day, lost 100 lbs. and now I can't tolerate just laying around anymore. Today was supposed to be a rest day for me but I'm suited up to run an easy 3 or 4 miles and will go to the local park later to break in a couple of new cameras I just got this week.
John
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World Collection
British Collection
German States Collection
I grew/trained bonsai about 20 years ago and gave away my collection when I moved, but
the bug bit again a few years back and I now have over 3 dozen trees I tend to daily.
Very time consuming but totally rewarding.
<< <i>Our 13 cats are somthing the wife and I both enjoy. I've got two landrovers which are a real hoot plus my "job" could also be considered a (well paying) hobby. >>
Do tell. What is the job?
John
Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
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<< <i>Our 13 cats are somthing the wife and I both enjoy. I've got two landrovers which are a real hoot plus my "job" could also be considered a (well paying) hobby. >>
Do tell. What is the job?
John >>
I'm more interested in hearing about the 13 cats.
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>Our 13 cats are somthing the wife and I both enjoy. >>
Isn't that an unlucky number, Ray? Prolly should get some more.
I teach motorcycle roadracing, though now it is more of a business and less of a hobby.
Lance.
Hopefully one day it will make me some money.
Richard
my car art & My Ebay stuff
- Ian
Owner/Founder GreatCollections
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Also collecting Breitling automatic watches.
Coins, prolly #2.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!
photography
stained glass
finding coins is fun and frustrating all at the same time.
President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay
<< <i>My children collect coins, PEZ, fossils and bottle caps. I go to war. >>
See you over there then. I get to Iraq (not since that is "over") and Afghanistan once or twice a year. Usually roll through Bagram, Bastion, and Dwyer. Might have to go in November.
John
Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
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<< <i>My children collect coins, PEZ, fossils and bottle caps. I go to war. >>
See you over there then. I get to Iraq (not since that is "over") and Afghanistan once or twice a year. Usually roll through Bagram, Bastion, and Dwyer. Might have to go in November.
John >>
John - I get to go home in 9 days!
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<< <i>My children collect coins, PEZ, fossils and bottle caps. I go to war. >>
See you over there then. I get to Iraq (not since that is "over") and Afghanistan once or twice a year. Usually roll through Bagram, Bastion, and Dwyer. Might have to go in November.
John >>
John - I get to go home in 9 days!
Larry I am perfectly content to stay inside the wire. Only been outside of the wire once with the exception of helo rides around country.
Went to a place called Sahl Singar in Iraq and I know I probably spelled that wrong. No wire. No real perimeter. Nothing happened but it was a little surreal. My military time consisted of riding Nuke Carriers.
Good on you for getting back home in the next week or so. Thanks for doing what you do.
John
Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
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<< <i>My children collect coins, PEZ, fossils and bottle caps. I go to war. >>
See you over there then. I get to Iraq (not since that is "over") and Afghanistan once or twice a year. Usually roll through Bagram, Bastion, and Dwyer. Might have to go in November.
John >>
John - I get to go home in 9 days!
Larry I am perfectly content to stay inside the wire. Only been outside of the wire once with the exception of helo rides around country.
Went to a place called Sahl Singar in Iraq and I know I probably spelled that wrong. No wire. No real perimeter. Nothing happened but it was a little surreal. My military time consisted of riding Nuke Carriers.
Good on you for getting back home in the next week or so. Thanks for doing what you do.
John >>
John - I'm in the Navy too. Spent time in Al Asad, Baghdad, Balad, Basrah, Ali Al Salem, Arifjan, Bagram and Kabul. I've had a lot of fun in the Middle East. I spend a lot of time in South Korea (Busan) and Japan too (Sasebo). I'm a Reservist and enjoy leaving Indy/Chicago to be a kid again (I'm 47). - Larry
--Jerry
<< <i>78 RPM blues records >>
Damnit if I only had to ROOM I would so collect those.
<< <i>Vintage machinist tools ( pre war WW2), antique fishing lures, guitars and hot sauce. 78 RPM blues records >>
Ditto on the hot sauce. I love trying new hot sauces. Oddly enough while there are untold thousands of sauces with all kinds of catchy names, for everyday use I prefer good old store bought Crystal hot sauce.
John
Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
Car/ Currency / Coins
Fall / Winter
Currency / Coins / Car
Im usually a paper guy but am addicted to cent roll searching. So when im not buying large size nationals you can find me neck high in zincolns.
My shelf
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Here's something on our upcoming show. It's a bunch of horror-themed one-act plays appropriate for the Halloween season.
If you're in the LA area, check it out!
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
I bought this one brand new 14 years ago, and have been tinkering with it since. Kinda of like coins, it never ends ... but that's okay.
Sugar magnolia blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care ...
#2. Political campaign items, although I collect a lot of 19th century presidential tokens and medalets which are coin related.
#3. Model train set.
"Ye Olde Mint"
Up town view
Industrial area
I collect, authenticate and sell: Cunard memorabilia from the Mauretania & Lusitania including bits of the ships themselves, vintage Hollywood and theatre autographs, New York World's Fair 1939 Kodachrome candid 35 mm slides & b/w and hand colored prints of same. I also paint miniatures in handmade oils on black walnut panels, large scale acrylic reduction canvases, I do some research into passenger liners, provide images, research, consultation, layout and covers for books, digital restorations for museums (new exhibit and book out now in D.C.)...more....a lot.
I think perhaps I need a vacation. I think, maybe, I might have spread myself too thin....
Eric
<< <i>El Caminos (and other cars). Strange but true.
Nice!
Is that the D.Carr Fantasy overstrike of a '71 El Camino?
Other than the above I can sit on the front porch of my cabin looking at the mountains for hours on end.
Gary
That is an impressive display, and great pics, too. Thank you.
Frozenick,
Porch-sitting and mountain watching are highly underrated.
Stamps are number two. Some of my stamps are truly beautiful. Some are very old. Not too many people into stamps anymore.
I especially like lenses and lens testing (have about 55-60 at present). That has also led into studying about lens design and trying to understand it. Lens design is one of the most complicated subjects that I have ever seen, insanely complex. I may need to go back and try to learn some of the higher math involved.
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<< <i>El Caminos (and other cars). Strange but true. >>
Nice!
Is that the D.Carr Fantasy overstrike of a '71 El Camino?
Sort of, yes
That one is actually the scarcer GMC version ("GMC Sprint").
Fire King/Anchor Hocking
Herb
Aside from coins: I shoot/collect guns, play in a band, tend goats and cows, tend to the garden and my 20 acres, and am very active in my Church. I stay busy......
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.