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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4550350, member: 10461&quot;] <ul> <li>I am 54 as of this post; 55 this year (b. Dec. 1965).</li> <li>I am a low-ranking hotel clerk (night auditor) by trade, and have worked in various upscale resorts since 1987.&nbsp; I do not earn a particularly large salary, but the international atmosphere of a high-end resort can be appealing, and I&#039;ve met some interesting people.</li> <li>Though I&#039;ve always been relatively well-read for my years, I was never a particularly good student, and did not take well to schooling.&nbsp; I floundered around in college, never completing a degree despite three abortive attempts.</li> <li>I have been married twice (in 1991 and 1999) and so have been with my present wife 20+ years now.</li> <li>We have a daughter (b. 2001) who is graduating high school and about to attend college.&nbsp; I also have an estranged son (b. 1991) from my first marriage.</li> <li>I began collecting coins in November of 1976.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve told that story several times, including <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/anyone-remember-there-very-first-coin-they-collected.329143/#post-3271968" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/anyone-remember-there-very-first-coin-they-collected.329143/#post-3271968">here.</a></li> <li>I have been a collector of World coins since the early 1990s, and Ancients since 2007, though my interest in both those categories began much earlier.</li> <li>I have an active curiosity and consider myself a &quot;world citizen&quot;, so I&#039;m not quite so insular as many American collectors.</li> <li>My tastes are quite eclectic, as you can see from my <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/vREY6n2u10aO6KWkiqmb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/vREY6n2u10aO6KWkiqmb" rel="nofollow">collection</a>, <font size="3">[*slow-loading page]</font> which has ebbed and flowed over the decades.&nbsp; It has been almost completely purged a few times, and continues to change and evolve.&nbsp; The one constant is that I have always enjoyed it.</li> <li>I am often childlike in my enthusiasm.&nbsp; This can sometimes show in my web posting.&nbsp; Though deeply serious at my core, I have a silly or even absurd side which often surfaces (with mixed results).</li> <li>I was also an avid treasure hunter (relic hunter, coinshooter, metal detectorist, fossil hunter) for many years.</li> <li>I have run out of ideas in describing myself.&nbsp; I will say that numismatics is one of the few areas where I have gotten much respect over time (some of it deserved, the rest somewhat surprising).</li> <li>In person, I am not particularly charismatic, nor impressive.&nbsp; I have become morbidly obese and diabetic and have an inferiority complex about my physical, financial, and intellectual status.</li> <li>In other words, I&#039;m not good-looking nor in the best of shape, not well-to-do, not in a high-powered career, and though above average in intelligence, not so well-educated in the formal sense.&nbsp; And I&#039;m a little bit insecure about all those things.&nbsp; Yet paradoxically, in light of those shortcomings, I still constantly have to be on guard against my own ego and narcissistic tendencies.&nbsp; Go figure.</li> <li>But in balance, I reckon I&#039;m a pretty good person, and I do always strive to better myself.</li> </ul><p><font size="4">Below: a 2004 photo in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">coin geek regalia</a>.&nbsp; The background is the old slave hospital ruins at Retreat Plantation on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, which are now on property that is part of the Sea Island resort.&nbsp; I work at a <a href="https://www.seaisland.com/accommodations/the-inn-at-sea-island/?nck=8664714415&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs6TGxrSD6wIV98uGCh1JKAVKEAAYASAAEgJuaPD_BwE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.seaisland.com/accommodations/the-inn-at-sea-island/?nck=8664714415&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs6TGxrSD6wIV98uGCh1JKAVKEAAYASAAEgJuaPD_BwE" rel="nofollow">sister property</a> which is also on Saint Simons Island.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>(Still a thirtysomething and not quite yet a Jabba the Hutt clone here)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126486[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: a more recent (2019) photo, spoofing the old avatar pose above.&nbsp; The old Holey Coin Hat is still in my closet but denuded of coins (I sold all its gold during the recession).&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll get some more old holey coins (not necessarily gold) and reincarnate it one day.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1126793[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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