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<p>[QUOTE="Roerbakmix, post: 4549412, member: 100731"]So, I'll start: the man behind the mysterious [USER=100731]@Roerbakmix[/USER] - or "stir-fry mix", which is the translation for my Dutch cointalk handle (I like to keep that a mystery <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). I started collecting coins as a kid, when you might find <i>silver</i> guldens in your pocket change. During college, I mostly forgot about coin collecting, but at the end of my six-year education for medical doctor, I was looking for some distraction and bought a metal detector. After a couple of finds, I was looking for determination of barely readable slugs, and via via ended up here, on cointalk. [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER], who basically knows every coin thinkable, guided me through the Roman coins, towards Greek, and finally Medieval (which is my current area of collection, aside from Celtic). With a steady income as medical doctor, I was able to buy coins I liked, but found out that selling coins is almost as fun as buying them (thus my entire collection <i>netto</i> didn't cost me a cent so far, which I aim to keep that way). </p><p><br /></p><p>In 2017, I married my wife, and a few months thereafter, we had our twin - followed by our third child in march this year (born only 40 minutes before the birthday of our twin ...!) In 2018, I paused my residency Internal Medicine to start a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology (very sexy job these days - nobody really knew what epidemiology was before COVID-19, and I guess most people think I work with viruses or so), focusing on prediction research, with an occasional COVID-19 evening shift in between for good measure. </p><p><br /></p><p>Last april, I passed the Rubicon and turned 30. The prospect that coin collecting is so extremely broad, and that I will only know just a fraction of it in the next 50 year is very comforting - especially because <i>there are no rules to follow:</i> I decide what's fun to collect (within reason ... my wife recently mentioned that she likes my sceatta collection!) Aside from coin collection, I enjoy coin restoration and metal detecting; non-coin related hobbies include playing around with data, reading Dutch literature (any Godfried Bomans fans here, perhaps?), playing the harpsichord and organ, and listening to classical music.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roerbakmix, post: 4549412, member: 100731"]So, I'll start: the man behind the mysterious [USER=100731]@Roerbakmix[/USER] - or "stir-fry mix", which is the translation for my Dutch cointalk handle (I like to keep that a mystery ;)). I started collecting coins as a kid, when you might find [I]silver[/I] guldens in your pocket change. During college, I mostly forgot about coin collecting, but at the end of my six-year education for medical doctor, I was looking for some distraction and bought a metal detector. After a couple of finds, I was looking for determination of barely readable slugs, and via via ended up here, on cointalk. [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER], who basically knows every coin thinkable, guided me through the Roman coins, towards Greek, and finally Medieval (which is my current area of collection, aside from Celtic). With a steady income as medical doctor, I was able to buy coins I liked, but found out that selling coins is almost as fun as buying them (thus my entire collection [I]netto[/I] didn't cost me a cent so far, which I aim to keep that way). In 2017, I married my wife, and a few months thereafter, we had our twin - followed by our third child in march this year (born only 40 minutes before the birthday of our twin ...!) In 2018, I paused my residency Internal Medicine to start a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology (very sexy job these days - nobody really knew what epidemiology was before COVID-19, and I guess most people think I work with viruses or so), focusing on prediction research, with an occasional COVID-19 evening shift in between for good measure. Last april, I passed the Rubicon and turned 30. The prospect that coin collecting is so extremely broad, and that I will only know just a fraction of it in the next 50 year is very comforting - especially because [I]there are no rules to follow:[/I] I decide what's fun to collect (within reason ... my wife recently mentioned that she likes my sceatta collection!) Aside from coin collection, I enjoy coin restoration and metal detecting; non-coin related hobbies include playing around with data, reading Dutch literature (any Godfried Bomans fans here, perhaps?), playing the harpsichord and organ, and listening to classical music.[/QUOTE]
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