Numismatic Careers?

What full time or part time numismatic jobs have you held in your lifetime?

 

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East Drive Pharmacy.. 1989 - 1991
Cashier/Pharmacy Clerk
I dealt with a lot of money!
(Not a numismatic job but I dealt with coins and paper currency)

 

Never as I'd keep everything!

I've had numerous jobs handing money and I always find good coins and paper money.

 

+1

 

Best job for finding coins. In the 60's worked a Nickel Carnival game at County Fairs in the summer. Found hundreds of silver coins and lots of good key date Jefferson's and Buffalo's. Would get 20's paper money to change as well.

 

Every Saturday morning I would go to the local bank, sit on the floor of the vault and roll coins for the tellers. I didn't get paid. I did it out of the goodness of my heart because they all had to hand roll the change back in the 50's. Everybody trusted everybody back then. You had to prove you were untrustworthy. It's the other way around now.

 

Never. Just talked to a dealer last week and asked him if he collected anything and he replied "No". He said he enjoys buying and selling. Suggestion, start a thread to ask dealers on CoinTalk if they collect...

 

When I was 11 I mowed the grass for a in-home dealer. My dad was a collector so I knew the key and semi-key Lincolns. That dealer paid me something like $1/hr to sort his pennies. I now believe he did that just because I was a YN, not because he needed them sorted.
These days I buy and sell on ebay, not high volume but I do make a few dollars. Of course like any dealer that is addicted to his product, I am my own best customer.

 

Why do I have to do everything? You do it!

 

Everything?

 

You're the one interested...you could even do a poll!!!

 

ugh..sooo...much...work.

 

I dealt in coins part-time over the past few years to help raise money for school. It was a successful endeavor. It isn’t something I’d want to do full-time, though; I find flight-testing private jets to be a much-more-interesting full-time career.

 

Had to laugh! Thanks.

 

But your from Missouri, the show me state. lol

 

I don got to show ya nuthing

 

One summer I worked at an amusement park arcade that still used quarters - not tokens. At busy times, there was a change booth where you could buy quarters or break a larger bill. The booth was usually staffed by little old ladies, and one day I noticed that one of them had a small stack of silver quarters set aside. So whenever the job of manning the change booth was available, I'd take it. Never found a silver quarter, but I did find Susan B's mixed in with the quarters pretty frequently, and since I knew the park counted the change by weighing it, it wasn't really going to hurt anyone if I took the Susan B's and replaced them with a quarter... throwing an additional quarter in for good measure every 3rd or 4th time.

 

Jobs? None.

Sideline? Selling some coins on eBay.