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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4550571, member: 110350&quot;]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.&nbsp; I grew up in the City, went to college and law school, and had a marriage that I&#039;ll skip over except to say that it produced a wonderful son who turned 30 last month -- impossible to believe!&nbsp; I lived in New Jersey for more than 20 years, but moved back to NYC about 10 years ago.&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>My two primary pastimes are collecting coins and antiquities, and doing genealogical research about my own family, and for others -- I&#039;ve been able to trace my mother&#039;s family back to the 1500s in Alsace and what&#039;s now Southwest Germany in some branches, which is very unusual for Jewish people to be able to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been extremely interested in both my family history, and in coins, since before I was 10 years old.&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; When I resumed collecting three years ago, I decided that I was never going to be able to replicate what I&#039;d sold, so I turned to ancient coins instead.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad I did!</p><p><br /></p><p>In the last three months, I&#039;ve been busy practicing social distancing, leaving me a lot of time for this forum!&nbsp; Although now that the weather&#039;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.&nbsp; Although I&#039;m expecting a plumber in about 10 minutes!&nbsp; That&#039;ll feel strange.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;s a pre-lockdown photo of me and Ziggy. (Ziggy is a big boy.)&nbsp; It&#039;s not great, but it&#039;s the only recent photo I have.&nbsp; Since then, I&#039;ve been eating way too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>[Note: I never intended to leave the photo up permanently, and am taking it down now.][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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