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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Multatuli, post: 5403662, member: 89266&quot;][ATTACH=full]1233546[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1233548[/ATTACH]&nbsp; Hello everybody!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m always late to view the topics, especially like this one, very interesting. Well, I&#039;ve been away from this forum for the past year, in a way due to overwork, and also because of the Pandemic situation itself. Who am I?</p><p>My name is Paulo Gerritsen Plaggert, I&#039;m Dutch-Brazilian, born in São Paulo, the largest city in Latin America. My father is Dutch born in the former Dutch East Indias, where part of my family has been since the beginning of the Batavia foundation. My mother is the daughter of Italians (half from Venezia, half from Mantova). I&#039;m currently 46 years old, pediatrician and child neurologist, married with 2 children. I&#039;ve been collecting coins since I was 5-6 years old, my first ancient coin was a LRB from Delmatius, when I was 14 years old. I discovered Numismatics through a visit to my Oma&#039;s office, where inside a desk, there were several old coins. Since then, I have never stopped collecting. I live in a country where it is not easy to collect ancient coins: the Brazilian mail don&#039;t work and does not help, there are few people who like ancient and medieval numismatics, thus, few dealers. As in the USA, I see that most collectors prefer the local theme. Brazil is a &quot;sleeping giant&quot;, as they like to say here. Personally, it is a country in a &quot;persistent vegetative state&quot;, which is driven by the bovine resilience of its population and by execrable politicians. Well, here I am...</p><p>I also like literature, genealogy (especially from my family) and History. My avatar, Multatuli, is a simple hommage to one of the greatest writers of Dutch literature, pseudonym of Eduard Dowes Dekker, of whom I am distantly related. <i>Multa tuli</i> means: &quot;I have suffered much&quot;.</p><p>I&#039;ve been following Cointalk for a few years now. Even when I&#039;m not logged in, I always try to read the topics. As [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]&nbsp; says, always learning! I write little here, because I don&#039;t think I have a good development in the English write language. But I have many numismatic teachers here. Perhaps it would be the place for me to thank [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] . He has no idea how much he has contributed to my numismatic training to this day. I owe him a lot of my (meager) knowledge, even before I was here. In fact, I owe you all a lot.</p><p>If I wrote any linguistic blunders, please forgive me![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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