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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wxcoin, post: 4551197, member: 74624&quot;]Since I don&#039;t get any respect I&#039;ll go ahead and say a little about myself; then the no respect will be earned.&nbsp; I would like to tell you that I was dropped on my head when I was born but that wouldn&#039;t be true.&nbsp; I was raised by loving parents who probably didn&#039;t get enough respect from myself and 5 siblings.&nbsp; I got interest in collecting coins when I was in junior high.&nbsp; A classmate collected Lincoln cents and a light bulb went off in my head and hasn&#039;t burned out yet; it&#039;s flickered a few times though.&nbsp; During high school I bought some US proof sets after I started working part time.&nbsp; I also went to the bank and got some cent rolls to look through.&nbsp; I was lucky to find a 1906 IHC in the first roll I ever searched through (I believe it was in 1970).&nbsp; By the time I started college I had to put coin collecting on the back burner; beer and Jaycees became my top priority (I was too ugly to chase women.&nbsp; Well I could chase them but I was too slow to catch them).&nbsp; In the meantime I got my undergraduate and graduate degrees in meteorology; talk about no respect!&nbsp; My first professional job was in Rapid City, SD and I bought a couple coins to jump start my coin collecting again.&nbsp; However, I had too many other irons in the fire and coin collecting never got to the level I wish it had.&nbsp; Over the next few decades I got married, had a son, changed jobs and location (Omaha, Austin, Rapid City again, and then Norman OK).&nbsp; Most of my career was weather radar research and development.&nbsp; The last 20 years was at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the time in Oklahoma I got divorced (no respect, no respect at all), built my own house not too far away from Joe Exotic&#039;s zoo (I get the shivers today thinking that was the community I was living in), and retired.&nbsp; Since I love the outdoors and 4 seasons I made it a point to move to the north woods of Wisconsin, where, as a kid growing up in northeast IL, I always dreamed of owning a house in the woods.</p><p><br /></p><p>My interest in coin collecting really ramped back up after my divorce.&nbsp; My first focus was on modern registry sets but after a while I sold most of my collection to purchase my north woods home.&nbsp; My current interests are 19th century type coins and family birth year sets.&nbsp; However if I see a coin I like that isn&#039;t part of what I normally collect, I&#039;ll buy it.&nbsp; Probably my favorite US series is the 3CN.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always had a goal of building a complete 3CN set; both MS and proof.&nbsp; To achieve that goal I may need to cut back on bowling, Spotted Cow and Dewers; nah, that ain&#039;t gonna happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use the CT name of wxcoin; &quot;wx&quot; is an acronym for weather and &quot;coin&quot; is an acronym for coin.&nbsp; Since I&#039;ve been on CT people have called me Rodney; you can see why.&nbsp; So, for the sake of this thread, I&#039;ll reveal my true identity for a 1916 SLQ and a donut (I love donuts).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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