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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 4551334, member: 75641&quot;]Hi all.&nbsp; Nice introductions from everyone.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER]: Depression and self doubt are terrible things.&nbsp;&nbsp; Don’t let the siren song of those nasty twins do you in.&nbsp;&nbsp; You are a good kind man who has done wonders for the folks in the boards and I suspect in real life.&nbsp;&nbsp; You’ve been a friend since CU days probably 15 years or so.&nbsp; You certainly bring joy to people’s lives.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m Nick.&nbsp; I run casinos for a living after I left grad school when I realized academia was not for me.&nbsp; There is both a lot more to it than people see but also a lot of the dumb things you do see.&nbsp; After 20 some years I have a good position in management but one of the quirks of casino businesses is that it still means that I will be there on NYE at midnight.&nbsp; After years of operations, I’m okay with the idea of a desk and 9-5.&nbsp; Or selling hotdogs, whatever comes first.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collected everything when I was a kid.&nbsp; I spent my whole Saturday at the local shop where the resident numismatist treated me like her son, parties at her house and hangouts with her kids included.&nbsp;&nbsp; I focused on Russian Imperial and all over the place in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp; High school and college were lost years as well as my twenties.&nbsp;&nbsp; A failed marriage in my twenties produced my lovely daughter who is a junior in HS.&nbsp; I am currently reading her college solicitation letters from the likes of U of Chicago and Harvard and Stanford and laughing at how little of a chance there is to pay for any of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Might as well buy more coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I met my current wife in my mid thirties and sort of figured my life out or at least was less self destructive about it.&nbsp; We married and I now also have a three year old who is ridiculous and makes me run around all day.</p><p><br /></p><p>I came back to some ancients and British I had and collect both avidly.&nbsp;&nbsp; Russian is still ridiculously priced so at some point I’ll either sell or add more when it’s sensible.</p><p><br /></p><p>I focus on Septimius Severus, his wife Julia Domna and Probus.&nbsp;&nbsp; I’m hopeful to contribute to the references of Severus in the future.&nbsp; My wife is smarter than I am, likes that I like stuff and like to dig into it so luckily she tolerates all of this nonsense.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126840[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126841[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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