This is why I like Amanda's and Charmy's coin show write ups...

Although I've been a computer nerd all my life and have used forums, email, facebook, etc as long as I can remember I've always felt the anonymity of forum members somewhat limiting in connecting to them on a personal level.

I'm a people person. I like to meet new people, I like socializing, I like knowing who people are, in the hobby and outside the hobby. I've always been that way. So when I come here and read and converse...i get left with wanting to know who these people are, what are they like...what do they look like?

Well over the past several months as I've read @The Penny Lady® and @Amanda Varner posts on their coin show adventures and perused their pics of all the people that stop by and meet them. I get to see some of who you guys really are. I like that.

I get it, in a hobby like this one, online, you wanna stay somewhat under the radar, and the attempts at "Show us your real self" always end up in the most hilarious of shenanigans so nothing is ever really learned about who people are.

Well, I've been keeping track and Amanda's and Charmy's reports have given me the opportunity to create my own directory of sorts that way I know who I'm talking to for some of you folks. So here's My updated directory list of coin talk nicknames and avatars to real people pictures.

I hope that since these are already out there in the inter webs in Charmy's and Amada's blogs, that it won't put off those I've named and to be fair I've included myself.

First up we have @Burton Strauss III - I've always get a lot out of your posts a numismatist at heart for sure.


Next up @illini420 - Again I always get something out of your posts. I've visited your website and looked at your registry set briefly (links in your sig)





Next there's @rzage - I sent Rusty one of those little cheap cell phone microscopes. I hope its proved useful. Rusty always has great information to share.


And then there's Frank....nuff said - Frank and I Just agreed yesterday on an AU 1932 S Washington quarter grade...when frank agreed with my assesment, something inside of me was *real* proud of that...not sure why...but it felt good




And lastly there's me...

Just me


Me after a fried got hold of a pic and found out l like coins and old money



And me as I would look in an episode of the walking dead



Great to meet all you guys in picture. Thanks Charmy and Amada for the blogs and updates.

 

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I agree and I like those parts of their trip/show reports and find it interesting to see what the you guys and gals out there in the internet look like...if I wasn't on my tablet I would post a picture. Maybe later if this thread keeps going and I remember.

 

Great to put some faces to screen names!
I think i posted a picture of myself on one of these threads...
Edit: Found it. Look at this high quality picture of a picture.
If you seem me at a show please say hi!!!

 

I've put this pic up before but here I am with some YN's .

Jason -

 

Great write up , and that little camera microscope is quite handy . Amanda and Charmy's write ups are always a treat . Except I always feel hungry after ready Charmy's write ups .

 

Dang Doug , you were young once . lol

 

Bite your tongue!

 

Never , that would hurt .

 

This is me when I graduated from pool school.....



......and this is me when I was in rehab.



Chris

 

Diggin' that bust half pic behind you! Also great to see you encouraging those YNs!

 

Is that a virgin bloody mary? Drinks in rehab? A dachary? I'll need coin rehab when this is all over. lol I'd post a pic of myself but I have a very public job. It kinda creeps me out when people take random pictures at work. I hope I don't end up somewhere on someone's FB feed.

 

agreed!

 

LMAO...that's some funny stuff there...can always count on you for some humor...man that's funny!

 

Strawberry Daiquiri

Chris

 

Every coin collector is Capt. Ahab

 

I didn't know he speared bison.

Chris

 

I doan theenk so, why? Because in the beginning of Moby Dick Captain Ahab nails a gold doubloon to the mast for the first man who spots the white whale.

No self respecting coin collector nails old Spanish gold to anything.

 

Chip , now if it was in a slab and he was careful not to hit the coin , I'd say ok . But you're right again .

 

It's not about the gold coin. It's about finding the elusive great white whale.