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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2862763, member: 81887&quot;]I joined Coin Talk about a year ago and have mentioned parts of my backstory, but I guess now&#039;s a good time for some more details.</p><p><br /></p><p>I graduated college with a degree in Biology in 1995, and went on to graduate school.&nbsp; Got my Master&#039;s in Molecular Biology and started the Ph.D. program, but never finished due to various reasons.&nbsp; Went on to become a lab technician, and later a lab manager, in a research lab of about a dozen people (grad students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergrads) at a famous medical sciences university in Baltimore.&nbsp; (I&#039;m not naming it because I am not an authorized spokesperson, and don&#039;t want anyone to think that my opinions are the official views of the university.&nbsp; Though I rather doubt the university has any official position on slabbing ancients.)&nbsp; So I still get to do some lab research, as well as co-writing scientific papers and grant applications, in addition to handling administrative tasks like ordering supplies, making sure equipment is working, etc.&nbsp; Essentially, I handle a lot of the daily tasks of running the lab so that the PI (Primary Investigator, the Professor in charge) can focus on the big picture goals such as deciding what the lab should study, advising lab members on their projects, and making sure we have funding. </p><p><br /></p><p>Besides coin collecting, my main interests are birdwatching and travel (these often align nicely).&nbsp; I am a voracious reader (especially history and science) and love movies.&nbsp; (I have the book &quot;1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die&quot;- I&#039;ve seen about a third of them.)&nbsp; But I wouldn&#039;t call myself a movie snob- I have a deep affection for cheesy 1950s and 60s sci-fi movies, and one of my favorite TV shows of all time is &quot;Mystery Science Theater 3000&quot;.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also been known to do some fossil collecting, and will save interesting bones or shells that I find in the woods or at the beach.&nbsp; (I definitely have the collector gene.)</p><p><br /></p><p>My main collecting interest has been Parthian coins, but earlier this year I sold most of my Parthians (400 coins) aran auction by CNG.&nbsp; I am still collecting some Parthians, but more selectively- just a few choice examples of interesting types, not trying to acquire every variety. I also am actively working on Romans (12 Caesars and Five Good Emperors mainly, especially reverse types that reference historical events) and Sasanians.&nbsp; Lately I&#039;m considering expanding my Persian collection to include the various Achaemenid satrapies (I recently won a nice didrachm of Tyre, and am searching for nice examples from Sidon and Babylon) and I may seek out some more early Chinese now that I have Hartill&#039;s catalog.&nbsp; Anyway, here&#039;s one coin to epitomize my collection, a sweet facing bust Parthian tetradrachm:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]682322[/ATTACH]</p><p>And a photo of a Red-and-Yellow Barbet that I took in Tanzania in 2015:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]682323[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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