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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4551312, member: 87809&quot;]I have been at CT since 2017, and I was so centered in trying to attribute and organize my coins that I forgot to introduce myself at that time - my apologies for being so rude.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My name is Chris, (short for Christiane) and when I first registered at CT, my keyboard was playing crazy and I did not realize that the &quot;t&quot; was missing from my CT name, which once registered was impossible to correct. That is why my CT name is cmezner.</p><p>A little bit of myself: married for 42 years, one daughter with son-in-law, one granddaughter <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I was a lecturer and researcher in Computer Sciences, and retired in 2007 when our granddaughter was born.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My parents were Sudeten Germans. After WWII they were &quot;displaced persons&quot; (i.e. stateless). My dad, since his youth, was a passionate coin collector mainly of Greek coins and Roman coins, in particular Augustus&#039; coins, and coins up to the third century; he also had a few byzantine and medieval coins as well as some Austro-Hungarian (some of them are at my gallery under Austria Hungary). He called these coins &quot;baptism coins&quot; as they were gifts for a newborn.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad&#039;s family was very large and had been in Bohemia for centuries. My paternal grandmother was Jewish. Even though she converted to Catholicism when she married my grandfather, it did not exempt her from the Nuremberg Laws. Most of my dad&#039;s family members either committed suicide or were deported to Auschwitz. On the other hand, the family of my mother was expelled from Bohemia and my parents at first tried to start a new life in Germany but in 1950 they emigrated to South America, Venezuela.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love to mention that an American GI helped my parents to escape in an US Army Jeep, from, at that time the Republic of Czechoslovakia: my dad was wearing the uniform of an American soldier and my mom was rolled up in a carpet. The American GI and my dad kept in touch for many years, and I know his first name: Norman.</p><p><br /></p><p>My avatar is the Coat of Arms of Tachau (nowadays Tachova), a small city in Bohemia were my mother and her family were from.</p><p>My dad passed away in 1997 and I inherited his collection. I have to say that during his lifetime I did not pay much attention to his collection. To make a very long story short, the coins were stored as he had left them during many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our daughter, she is a physician at Cook County, came to the US in 2003 to specialize in Internal Medicine; she met a wonderful guy and&nbsp; they married in 2006. In 2007, our granddaughter was born and my husband and I moved to the US and became US citizens in 2012. Of course we brought with us (in several trips, but this is another long story) my fathers collection and stored them in a safe deposit box. At first, my idea was to give them away to the local museum; two of their numismatists came, saw the collection, apparently had no interest and I guess that, now that I know a bit more, they must have been shocked because the coins were all stored together without coin flips in the deposit box. Actually, they were very nice and sent me a lot of coin flips to store them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moving forward to 2017: we decided that we should at least try to identify and organize the collection. I knew absolutely nothing about numismatics, and I still don&#039;t know much. That was when I registered at CT and at the German numismatic forum, and since then, with the big help of the members, and of course using websites, I have been able to attribute my dad&#039;s coins. I also started to buy coins that I think my dad would like to have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from coins, I have always loved to go to flee markets and collect things, stamps, empty matchboxes, postcards, textiles, Delft porcelain among others. I was also responsible for organizing the German community flee market that is (or was) held each year at Christmas time in Caracas. Nowadays, I volunteer at a local shop that is like a huge flee market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other hobbies: read<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, classical music including operas<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, learn languages<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, exercise, research my ancestry.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My granddaughter and myself, Summer 2018, when we were enjoying 2 weeks with her in Florida: (I have no more recent pictures of myself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126822[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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