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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 2865017, member: 83175&quot;]I&#039;m not sure I introduced myself when I joined at the end of 2016.</p><p>Anyway, I&#039;m Irish, Aidan, 49, IC (&quot;chips&quot;) design engineer - currently working on power management; previously, data converters, HDMI equalisers, mobile &#039;phone basebands, and I even had a stint designing part of a potato sorter.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s an interesting industry with peaks and troughs but an underlying relentless drive of technology - the minimum feature size (basically, the thinnest wire that can be made or the minimum length of a transistor gate) has gone from 2.4um to 10nm in projects I&#039;ve worked on over a 25-year period.&nbsp;&nbsp; A 240X reduction - or, ideally, we could fit &gt; 50,000 times as many devices into the same area today as back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from coins, I run a bit and ski badly but enjoy being up in the mountains.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have two telescopes - an 8&quot; SCT and an 80mm refractor - neither has been outside in a long time, but I have a plan on the back burner to house them in a remotely-controlled observatory - someday.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have a few tropical fish and a lot of gadgets in various states of operation/construction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I have a few collecting angles - mostly Roman Republican coins in the last few years, but also some Greek coins and the odd Imperial too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Crepusia 1 (RRC 361/1c) denarius - a lovely coin with little wear - you can see the face of the horseman - but the die number is off-flan, which is a bit unlucky <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Crepusia1Denarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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