So, ... who are you?

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I have a Silicon Valley background, meaning I've started some companies, two were sold, one failed. Gained experience raising money, became a private equity guy. Now I've stopped chasing deals. In November 2018 my Dad died (long time Navy officer from Viet Nam through the Gulf War, retired and eventually started his own maritime company in 1998) but before he died I helped him sell his company in May of 2018 to a private equity firm. I spend a lot of time on astronomy when I am not playing with my coins. I've been collecting since age 11 and have always had a strong interest in history and the classics, though I sold my initial collection at 18 to fund part of my college expenses. I got started again in 2014 with unclean coins, which was exhilarating and frustrating at the same time, then I started buying individual coins. It's interesting to see the diverse backgrounds of folks here on CoinTalk. I've learned a lot and try to impart some of what I have learned to the new folks.

 

My Old Man on the left, myself on the right, in Florida right before all this Covid business went down

 

Thank you for this thread, @Roerbakmix

This is me, Svein (47) from Norway. My nickname is Svessien.



This is the real treasure of my life. Her name is Frøy, after Frøya (norse god equivalent of Venus):



I have been collecting coins since 2003, but playing the guitar and bass since 1986. This is a video that was put together after a festival in Germany where we played in 2009, with our music as the sound track:



Like many Norwegians, I am fond of the outdoors. And like many men my age, I try to stay young and hang in there.



My work has always been with young people. Right now I am supervisor at an emergency institution for young people with challenges with drugs, crime, etc. It’s hard but also rewarding. The government pays me just enough to enable me to collect coins. Or eat.

 

I can respect that!

One of my personal hobbies besides coin collecting is amateur microbiology. I like making my own agar and growing different strains of bacteria from water/environmental sources. I also enjoy microscopy.

Here is a sample of a coagulate negative Staphylococcus I isolated from a tap water sample in Mississippi. Contrary what people think, many species of bacteria are extremely beneficial to us humans and can protect us from other harmful strains.

And here is a gram stain I did of the inside of my mouth. Notice the epithelial cell with the large amounts of bacteria( most likely a type of Streptococcus species)

 

..hehe..i'm flattered Magnus, but i must confess, i am guilty of plagiarism, for that is the 1st verse of Charlie Daniels ' long haired country boy'...

 

Robert,

You are totally underestimating yourself. You are one of the most entertaining and engaging people I've ever read online. I love it when you post something new. You have such an awesome sense of humor and such a great way of looking at things. You've really cheered me up when I was down before and I really thank you for that. I've tried to read everything I can find about your metal detecting coin collecting fossil hunting and just plain funny stories. you should consider writing a humorous book about your life, I'm sure it would be hilarious. If you wrote it in the style of your posts and just describe what happened to you I think people would find it extremely entertaining.

Keep up the great work and let us know if you need help with anything.

John

 

My story has been told here too many times and there is nothing worth telling anyway. My wife and I rarely have people over for dinner because what we eat is too strange for the local crowd. I have more pets than most people because of our colony of millions of bacteria and yeast that make kefir. They require daily attention but we can take a break and put them in the kennel or refrigerator if we will be away.

 

..you are melord...and always will be...

 

I was born in Manhattan a little more than 60 years ago, the child of a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor who finally was able to come to this country in 1943, and an American Jewish man she met in school here. I grew up in the City, went to college and law school, and had a marriage that I'll skip over except to say that it produced a wonderful son who turned 30 last month -- impossible to believe! I lived in New Jersey for more than 20 years, but moved back to NYC about 10 years ago. I practiced law here for more than 35 years at two different law firms and then a non-profit organization, but am semi-retired now.

My two primary pastimes are collecting coins and antiquities, and doing genealogical research about my own family, and for others -- I've been able to trace my mother's family back to the 1500s in Alsace and what's now Southwest Germany in some branches, which is very unusual for Jewish people to be able to do.

I've been extremely interested in both my family history, and in coins, since before I was 10 years old. The two hobbies have more in common in what they require than you might think -- including patience, a love of research, and an eye for detail, among other things.

Even though the very first coins I ever bought were a couple of very beaten-up LRBs that cost me about a quarter apiece at a little coin shop a few blocks from where I grew up, I actively collected first world coins, and then British coins and medals, for decades, until I had to sell most of the British materials about five years ago. When I resumed collecting three years ago, I decided that I was never going to be able to replicate what I'd sold, so I turned to ancient coins instead. I'm glad I did!

In the last three months, I've been busy practicing social distancing, leaving me a lot of time for this forum! Although now that the weather's nice, I do try to get out more, not one single person has been in my apartment since the beginning of March other than myself and my son. And my cat Ziggy. Although I'm expecting a plumber in about 10 minutes! That'll feel strange.

I am one of the more un-photogenic people on the planet, so I rarely take selfies or allow my picture to be taken, but here's a pre-lockdown photo of me and Ziggy. (Ziggy is a big boy.) It's not great, but it's the only recent photo I have. Since then, I've been eating way too much.

[Note: I never intended to leave the photo up permanently, and am taking it down now.]

 

..really i am many things...mostly i am J Alfred Prufrock..62 yo this Oct 15th.....a dad, grandpa, son, friend to few out here.. always glad to be of use...but sometimes the fool...almost obtuse...i dropped out of society in 2015, August 27th after 20 years in the advertising business( i get to start drawing my old age SS this year) and lived life on the edge for so many years(who would've thought i'd still be here now??...not me )..i've done good and bad......i promoted big name bands for a few years and got to party and rub shoulders with some of the greatest performers of my time..(they, most of them, appreciated being treated like just plain folk)..now it's just me and my two cats and the wild birds and beast of the woods...and course, you all...and my best friend Marty and his family...

..i always figured you were a classy beautiful lady...and i was right..

 

Love the music! I believe I heard influences of Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, JS Bach, Vivaldi, amongst others including the southern US influence.

 

..that lQQks yummy!..i use yeast in my cooking and eating every day for homemade bread, pizza dough etc..(just made a batch for pizza last nite)..but i still buy it ..at present...

 

Thank you! It is «Winter» by Vivaldi from the four seasons, Muscle Shoals-style
We specialized in playing classical pieces in a modern way. Fun project.

 

I was born in central Ohio where my father was an auto worker and my mother was a librarian. I'll turn 30 in July and I've collected coins since I was about 8 years old. I grew up looking for artifacts (arrowheads/stone tools) in the fields in our area with my dad, and spent countless hours rolling my ankles in the ploughed fields while also finding some cool items. I was drawn to coins when I found several in the fields and took an interest in them. I started out in U.S. coins and would randomly buy other coins I found interesting, which took me into world coins and then into Ancients, which is what I've been obsessed with lately, and forsee that going forward.

I attained a degree in financial services and afterwards served in the Army as an active duty infantry officer for 3 years. I then put my degree to good use and became a financial advisor. I married my wife in 2013 and we have a baby boy due in August (our first). We also have a basset hound named Slinky. I have several other hobbies including fine woodworking and helping my wife garden and work outside on projects. The photo is on the bridge across the creek on our property.

 

I turned 27 this past March and I have been collecting coins since April. I have about 40 coins that I bought already identified, and I have 34 uncleaned coins that I am currently working on (steady but slow progress is being made). I spent 6 years as a Paralegal in the Army Reserves. I graduated college with 3 majors (honors history, political science & interdisciplinary honors) and a minor in sociology after 3 years of study (while in the military). I got an award for excellence in the study of history upon graduating (my thesis was based on the real causes of the War of 1812, it wasnt impressed sailors like many think).

After I school I worked as a Senior Legal Specialist in finance for about a year and then worked for 8 months as a project manager with a legal based non profit organization. I recently became a teacher in NYC public schools (Brooklyn born & raised but now living in Astoria, Queens) and although I am a generalist, I specialize in history. My job might be in jeopardy because of budget issues after covid, so I might find myself back in a boring office setting in the near future.

In my spare time I like to play with my 14 year old Yorkie (Sparky), go running or play sports (baseball, football, basketball, tennis, & handball if anyone knows what that is). My gf and I also love nature and often go to Central Park since we live so close. We like to watch a lot of movies (new ones & classics we havent seen yet) and play board games. We also enjoy our fair share of Whiskey, Tequila & Wine.





I wanted to share some of my historical based decorations with you. In my living room I have a pyramid made of mixtiles to the left of my tv & a chronological rectangle of American History images to the right.



Then on another wall I have paintings of two NYC landmarks and a timeline of the city above (starting with George Washington entering the city in 1783).





My fridge is full of quotes from my favorite figures (the Hamilton quote was never actually attributed to him and it annoys me, but I am fond of the man and the quote so i went with it anyway).



My desk has a Julius Caesar pencil holder & Frederik de Wit mouse pad. Then I have my Anubis wine glass. I swore when I bought it that I would only drink wine like a pharoah from that point on, and I think I have used it twice in the last 6 months.





I also have a picture of the empire state building halfway finished and a copy of Guernica in my kitchen, but i think I have already shared way too much. Sorry for the extremely long post, i get excited sharing these and enjoy reading about all of the other CT members.