NUMISMATIST JOB AVAILABLE

Leu Numismatik is offering you a job, from the comfort of your home. Anyone interested ???

 

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While I am far from qualified and not seeking employment, I am not all that comfortable with coins being catalogued by someone who only saw a photo or did they fail to mention that they require languages other than English (e.g. German or French as anyone in their country might) and be able to come to the office and pick up a parcel to be worked up?

 

...those are my qualifications Doug

 

Ummm, but could help get me citizenship over there...please?!?!

My thoughts as well. All of us CTers know just how hard it is to spot fakes via pictures.

 

Even if I were qualified and interested (neither of which is the case!), the payment per coin would have to be considerable to make me want to apply. It's essentially piece-work, incentivizing quantity over quality. I suspect that it's accompanied by a quota of expected work, as if one were a home seamstress in the garment industry. (Note the reference to "stressful situations.")

I also wonder why "extensive experience as a numismatist in the coin trade" is required, given that the work requires only the identification and cataloguing of coins for auction. I'm sure there are collectors who've never worked in the coin trade who could do that just as well.

Good point regarding the apparent expectation to identify (and, presumably, authenticate) from photos. I doubt they'll be sending out the coins to you from Europe so you can examine them in person.

 

I would love it (even if I'm sure I am very unqualified) but just in theory. Probably the workload is not exactly sublime.
This is my biggest hobby but I wouldn't like at all to be in a situation where I have 3 hours remaining and 50 photos of coins to attribute that I have no idea where to start.

 

‘Stressful situations’
That sounds really fun

 

The challenge here is that the job required a very wide level of knowledge; Greek, Roman, Celtic and even Islamic…I know specialists in every category, but who’s qualified enough to know it all ? On the other hand, they are talking in the add about « team work », so surely they’ll provide help in certain case. I’d be curious to know how much per coin is the remuneration. If our friend @Severus Alexander is around, it would be cool to know how many hours it took to attribute the more than 600 specimens in his last auction. Could a group of person, let’s say CoinTalk members, take the job, post the coins here and split the money ?

 

Sounds like a good way to become disenchanted with coins.

 

Yeah this is a hobby, doing that job would take all the fun out of it.

 

I've been collecting coin since 1980, and the more I collect, the less I know, so I'm out!

 

Leu is making a lot of money these days.



Just look at the revenues from recent auctions that they email to us. Being a numismatist I suppose is Nirvana these days for Classicists, I've even heard it suggested that those with recent Ph.D.s in Classics, Ancient History, and Archaeology go into the field since remuneration is high, in contrast to someone being an Assistant Professor, Lecturer, or Junior Curator at a Museum, where the number of low-paying jobs is way less than the number of graduates in related fields...

 

What's a Numismatist...does this mean I'm not qualified? LOL

 

I'm retiring in 3 months. I had my first job interview today. I could do this on the side as well

 

Why would you want to make your hobby your job? That wrong direction! You want a job that feels like a hobby- something you enjoy. This route, as mentioned, is a good way to you to lose your enjoyment of the hobby!

 

Coinoscope...

Just saying...

 

It seems to me they already have qualified internal candidates in mind, but they have to vet external candidates to satisfy some hiring "requirement"...perhaps an unhired NFL head coaching candidate may be interested...

 

I stopped keeping track, it was too depressing. Of course it depends a lot on the coin and how familiar it is. I tried not to exceed 10 minutes per coin in the main auction section, but regularly broke that rule! Especially on more expensive pieces. (Familiar coins of lesser interest could often take less than 5 minutes though.) Of course my descriptions typically contain a lot more historical info than the usual auction.

Pick-bin coins were super quick, just a couple minutes each normally. (This is all excluding photography, of course.)

 

Well, I for one, really appreciated the write-ups. Sometimes the history is what gets me more interested in the coin and makes me want to get it. The great pictures don't hurt either

 

If you enjoy numismatics enough, having it as a full-time job should not be a problem. I switched my career from piloting to coin dealing and haven't had any burnout at all. Everyone is different though I guess.

The job offer is just very poorly worded.