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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 8344268, member: 74712&quot;]I’m not sure how I missed this thread both times!&nbsp; As I mentioned in another thread, I’m incredibly busy at the moment moving house and changing employers, but have been forced to take a break due to food poisoning (or Noro virus, not sure).&nbsp; I enjoyed reading the previous posts, but was of course sad to see the contributions from [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER] and remembering he won’t be joining us anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for myself, I began collecting in high school when the states quarters program began.&nbsp; My local coin shop had some severan Denariis available, which of course opened up a whole new world for me.&nbsp; I had always been interested in History, so I bought two which are still part of my collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480012[/ATTACH] Imperial Rome</p><p>Caracalla, r. 198-217 A.D. (211 A.D.)</p><p>Rome Mint, AR Denarius, 20.28mm x 2.8 grams</p><p>Obv.: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT. Laureate bust, right</p><p>Rev.: P M TR P XIIII COS III P P. Pax, draped, advancing left, holding branch in right hand and sceptre in left hand</p><p>Ref.: SRCV 6824, RIC IV-1 Caracalla 184, p. 238, RSC 190</p><p>Note: My First Ancient Coin</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480013[/ATTACH] </p><p>Imperial Rome</p><p>Caracalla, r. 198-217 A.D. (205 A.D.)</p><p>Rome Mint, AR Denarius, 19.17mm x 3.3. grams</p><p>Obv.: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, Laureate bust right, draped</p><p>Rev.: LIBERALITAS AVGG V, Liberalitus standing left, holding abacus and cornucopia</p><p>Ref.: SRCV 6815 variety, RIC IV-1, 136b, p 232, RSC 124</p><p><br /></p><p>my real interest in history has always been the Middle Ages, so I soon after decided to search eBay for medieval coins (eBay was still relatively new, and I don’t think there were as many swindlers back then):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1480015[/ATTACH] </p><p>French Feudal - Poitou</p><p>Richard I, r. 1168-1185</p><p>AR Denier, 17mm x 1 grams</p><p>Obv.: +RICARDUS REX, cross patée, annulet in third quarter</p><p>Rev.: PIC / TAVIE / NSIS, written in three parallel lines</p><p>Ref.: AGC 343A (1/a), Duplessy 926, Roberts 3887, SCBC 8008, De Wit 394</p><p>Note: My First Medieval Coin</p><p><br /></p><p>coin collecting had to pause for college, as I was working full time and setting aside money to avoid getting in debt.&nbsp; I was mostly successful, but realized if I wanted to work in history, I would need to go to grad school.&nbsp; Since my interest was Medieval history, I decided to go to Europe and attended a school in NorthEastern England where I met my wife (fellow American).</p><p><br /></p><p>upon returning to the states with my PhD in Medieval History, I did the Adjunct lecturer circuit for a while. (This was right after the 2008 crash - no jobs were available)&nbsp; Once I tired of the exploitative direction universities had taken towards new hires, I decided to look into teaching high school and was lucky to find a good position at a good school.&nbsp; Once I had a full time gig again, I was able to restart my coin collection (well, my ancient &amp; medieval collection - I had been saving pocket change the whole time, but it’s not the same…)</p><p><br /></p><p>No children, but a cat (I’m more of a dog person, but my wife is a cat person, so that means we have a cat…).&nbsp; Other hobbies include comic book collecting (I’m working on a full run of Amazing Spider-Man), reading, and hiking.&nbsp; As for my avatar, when I joined the boards I was looking to take the name “exchequer” because I had used a lot of the pipe rolls from the English exchequer in my doctoral research.&nbsp; Someone already had the name and I didn’t want to cause confusion by being “exchequer2.”&nbsp; So I decided to take the name of a medieval author who wrote a guide to the exchequer: Richard Fitz Nigel.&nbsp; I knew it was a stupid name at the time, but I never really participate in forums anyway, so I thought I would just be a lurker and occasional poster.&nbsp; Turns out I’ve participated much more than I anticipated, because you are all such lovely people.&nbsp; So I regret the name, but whatever - I’m stuck with it now.&nbsp; The coin that is my avatar was one I bought In 2016.&nbsp; It has no special significance, other than it being a nice looking coin (and it has been fun to photoshop for various occasions over the years).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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