Quote: ArnhemcoinI'm a 33 year old Historian / History teacher.
This is the reason I collect coins, and banknotes, they are little pieces of history.
Originally Dutch, but immigrated to Canada in 2008, also lived in England and Spain previously.
Besides everything relating to History, the movies I watch, the tv I watch and books that I read.
I love football (soccer) and Rugby.
Wow! This is the main reason why I collect coins. For history and preservation of their beauty. By the way, I'm 19 years old turning 20 tomorrow. a business mgt. student. fomr PHL.
Hi Guys,
I'm 44, living in Nottingham, UK. Working in I.T.
New to the forum, and relatively new to coin collecting, started a year or so ago, and have only just finished sorting through my bags of world coins!
Other hobbies would be art/sculpture, I suppose that's why I'm enjoying sorting through random coins, some of them are beautiful.
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I'm not an expert in any kind of coins, but I reckon I'm good at research and will do my best to help. Feel free to tell me my identifications/valuations/gradings are wrong. It's the only way I'll learn.
I come from the land down under! Also 71 years of collecting. I collect most things (1 wife, 1 Ex)
also Ash trays, clocks, radios, cameras, stamps, badges, bank notes, cars, bicycles, and more. Great site and people.
35, Active Duty US Air Force Officer. I can't tell you what I do, because then I'd have to kill you.
My other hobbies include running, doing triathlons, alpine skiing, learning Russian, sci-fi, and collecting Star Wars items. And, I'm just getting back into watching Dr. Who.
I'm 21 years old, I started with a coin collecting about a year ago.
I will post a little story and why I collect coins. I started college on a osap loan and by the end of second semester I was strapped for cash and 300 dollars short for paying for my school loan so they kicked me out, after finding a looking for a job in toronto for a year with no luck and really in the whole for my and got kicked out of my parents house twice because I had no job I promised myself I would find something that will make me a lot of money and so that I don't have to work my whole life and earn nothing and I came across a old coin of my dad's that was worth about ten bucks and I thought to myself I found my calling "coins"
fast forward a year later I now have a job, I'm saving money for coins and will be paying off my loan soon. and my big numismatic goal is to buy and sell a million dollar coin
my job is a shelf stocker at john's value mart and I'll be finding a new job soon!!
my hobbies include: reading, playing video games, watching anime, soon to be working out, cooking, metal detecting, coin collecting and I'll also try golfing in the summer
I'm Frankie married with 3 kids from Sunderland uk
31 year old
Work as a stock investigator / stock controller / customer assistant
Hobbies fixing and repairing computers
Building motorbikes and now coin collecting
I'm surprised how many youngsters are here. I'm 22, studying accountancy at university. Don't have a job yet, but do some volunteer work in charity shops.
As well as collecting, I hike, travel, geocaching, photographing, etc.
Almost forgot, I love metal detecting too, and have a huge heap of old Roman coins/pins/thimbles, etc, etc
I'm 38, a Chartered Accountant by profession. My other hobbies are bungee jumping, reading, chess, cricket, and gathering educational degrees.
Two years ago I was sick (pissing blood), totally on bed. Getting real bored, I started going through my father's collection of coins, it was like a bulb popped in my head. After that day, I am collecting coins. (My wife has started accusing that coins have become my first wife).
Quote: Mark240590Just to get to know people better I thought this could be nice Don't put any fields in you're not comfortable with but ...
I'm 22, work as a plumbing and heating engineer and my other hobbies include modifying cars, rural walks with the girlfriend and mutt, and just doing things with friends.
I am 29, working as lab technician. My hobby, besides coins collecting, is Japanese sword fencing (kendo), and playing video games with my girl friend
I am 16 years old, I live in the Netherlands and I am a freelance photographer for The Daily Telegraph, Newstalk and The Daily Business Post (Mainly for topics that are related to coins). I have been collecting coins since I was 5 years old, now almost 12 years ago. During my free time I search with my metal detector or I add/modify coins on here. I also collect stamps.
Hi there,
I am 37, a Math teacher by profession. Got into this hobby when I received change from a shop where the coin was having the head of mahatma Gandhi, father of nation of India. This happened when I was 12. Since then I used to collect whatever Indian commemorative coins that comes into my hand by chance. Got serious for the past two years and here I am. My dream is to have at least 300 countries, with 3000 coins in my collection before I do something else. Having stamp collection too - Nature / flora and fauna theme only.
Now, that you ask me, I am 48 today.
Happy Birthday to me
Originally a mathematician, so I know that every natural number is a product of multiplications of prime numbers, so 48 is pretty boring. 2*2*2*2*3; looks like a female 3 flirting with 4 ambitious 2s... ... not very ambitious, so I look forward to the next prime at 59!
Later, I get degrees in Islamic studies and Turkic and Arabic linguistics and history, which is largely ignored by the we-know-all Numista team; and then my PhD is in economics and specifically Knowledge Management, which I do most for my living; consulting companies on how to not forget what they already know...
Quote: imrehLater, I get degrees in Islamic studies and Turkic and Arabic linguistics and history, which is largely ignored by the we-know-all Numista team; and then my PhD is in economics and specifically Knowledge Management, which I do most for my living; consulting companies on how to not forget what they already know...
Not too bad for someone with the IQ of two carrots
Quote: neilithicNot too bad for someone with the IQ of two carrots
Happy Birthday
Thanks, Neil.
Now, in order to remain conversational on Numista, you really do not need much more than the IQ of 2 carrots: just need to learn patterns:
1) "we love you, Xavier";
2) "thanks for the team for doing a great job"
3) "it is great that you did not do anything in the last 11 months, hurray..."
4) "wonderful that you ignored all messages by members..."
Happy Birthday, Imre.
You are starting to remind me of Oscar the Grouch...and I think that my "deliberate ass" comment really got to you.
Peace and tranquility for your Birthday. Imre, improvements will come, just be patient.
Quote: bam777Happy Birthday, Imre.
You are starting to remind me of Oscar the Grouch...and I think that my "deliberate ass" comment really got to you.
Peace and tranquility for your Birthday. Imre, improvements will come, just be patient.
Quote: bam777Happy Birthday, Imre.
You are starting to remind me of Oscar the Grouch...and I think that my "deliberate ass" comment really got to you.
Yes, yes, although my trash-can is much more sizeable and comfy... :D
... virtually it covers all those not-so-overly-happy-Numista-members-around-the-globe.
Hello everybody, i'm a 31 years old italian boy, actually living in Argentina... Italian teacher, wannabe professor, I love music, but coin collecting is my first and foremost passion...
Hi there to all from Nepal
I'm 24 and 2 months :)
I work in Concierge. Every year I would see new coin in the market and it would make me wonder what happened to the previous year coin. That's how I started keeping one of each year and then without knowing it turned into hobby. with coins I collect bank notes (+40 countries) as well, especially want to have all the coins of my country haha. Other then that I love Traveling....
I am 20 but will be 21 in a few months. I am in school full time studying to be a nurse (thats right a male nurse). I work part time repairing tv's and microwaves. Aside from collecting coins. I also collect banknotes, stamps and hand crafted items from all over the world (most have come from my travels).
I'm 24, I work full-time in an amusements arcade doing several duties. My favourite part of my job is working in the 'change desk' as I can view all sorts of British coinage that customers bring to me. This is how I begun to enjoy collecting coins from May 2013.
Apart from collecting coins, I like metal detecting in my local area, i like computer games, playing the odd bit of badminton in the Summer and I like driving to various places in my car.
Wow, so manny teenagers.
I'm 28, teaching in the HBU/Jerusalem. Colecting scince age of 10. Other hobbys? mmm... I use to have but I can't remamber since the hobby of rasing 2 lovely doughters... :)
25, I work in the General labour industry. I collect coins, Bank notes, Stamps, My other hobbies are Guitar, Photography, Metal Forging, Wood carving, Painting, Drawing.
I have actually too many hobbies to even list, but those are the main, I am like that Dos Equis dude, Very interesting, I have an abundance of random useless facts, and knowledge that serves nothing besides conversation interests.
Im 38-year old MD, working in General Surgery, Oncosurgery, and Laparoscopy. Also I working as Senior Surgical Cases Analyst at the largest Insurance Company here in Georgia.
I collect coins since 1984, - first - all world coins, but since 2002-2003 I focused on only African coinage. I love african coins, as they are a mix of European Numismatic Culture and Native, African Beauty. Any changes in African countries coinage is a parallel of country` history. And, history of Africa is such colorfull, as Africa itself.
Regarding other hobbies - I love instrumental JAZZ 1960 - today. I play piano and guitar bit. I love Latinoamerican writers ( Cortasar,Borkhes, Casares, Marquez and many others) .
ahh, - I collect small ( 10-25 sm diameter ) wall-plates from different world places.
So, if you will have any surgical questions, - I will glad to answer
best regards,
and happy collecting !
David Miqeladze
Tbilisi, Georgia
I am 33 years old and live in Australia. I have only been collecting coins for the past month. I decided to look at my change one day noticed some interesting coins. I started collecting by an accident.
My other hobbies include cars, computers, electronics, pretty much any kind of technology tbo...
I am having a hard time navigating through the site though. I get confused pretty easily...
Hi , I am 56, work for British Airways as a aircraft engineer and go metal detecting.
Apart from all the coins and artefacts I have found, I collect coin weights, and recently started collecting Evasion halfpenny's and Farthings .
Best regards to all of this interesting community!
I am 52 years old and I collect coins, since 1970 when a friend from school who had some pieces that had given him an uncle, came off of a repeated and gave me ten of them. Thereafter I became very interested in knowing about these pieces, their history, their country of origin and all the information I could find about them. Then came the curious to get this other and I deeply thank the complicity of my friends who remembered my interest in his travels abroad.
But the biggest boost I've had with my travels, as I worked as an electrician and mechanic naval boat fishing in the eastern Pacific, which took me from Venezuela to meet Chile, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and very short last week by Argentina and Mexico, thus allowing me to collect a good part of my coins.
Thanks to this wonderful community that gives life to this page, I could use this technology to organize the collection and make two exchanges. Although the last of these so far has not been very happy, because the restrictions and prohibitions implemented in my country's foreign policy and economic segregation, there is full freedom for the mailing of collector coins and this compels one to seek help from friends who travel abroad to continue the hobby.
I think I have another hobby, but a hobby Numismatics is a passion that requires much study and dedication, but provides a number of satisfactions.
En Español:
Cordiales saludos a toda esta interesante comunidad!
Tengo 52 años de edad y colecciono monedas, desde 1970 cuando un amigo de escuela que poseía unas piezas que le había regalado un tío, se desprendió de unas repetidas y me obsequió diez de ellas. De allí en adelante me interesé mucho en conocer acerca de esas piezas, su historia, de sus países de origen y toda la información que pudiera encontrar en torno a ellas. Surgió luego la curiosidad de obtener otras y en esto debo agradecer profundamente la complicidad de amigas y amigos que se acordaban de mi afición en sus viajes al exterior.
Pero el impulso más grande lo he tenido con mis viajes, pues trabajé como electricista y mecánico naval en barcos de pesca en el Pacífico Oriental, que me llevaron desde Venezuela a conocer Chile, Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador y una muy breve pasada por Argentina y México, permitiéndome así colectar una buena parte de mis monedas.
Gracias a esta maravillosa comunidad que le da vida a esta página, pude hacer uso de esta tecnología para organizar la colección y realizar dos intercambios. Aunque el último de estos hasta ahora no ha resultado muy feliz, ya que por las restricciones y prohibiciones implementadas en mi país en materia de divisas y políticas de segregación económica, no existe plena libertad para para realizar el envío postal de monedas de colección y esto lo obliga a uno a buscar la ayuda de amigos que viajan al exterior para continuar con la afición.
Creo que no tengo otra afición, la Numismática más que un hobbie, es una pasión que requiere mucho estudio y dedicación, pero que brinda un sinnúmero de satisfacciones.
I'm a nineteen year-old student in geography whose name is Lucas!
I'm close to achieve a licence in geography this year.
And i LOOOOOOve the piano, especially playing it (without lessons) on my own.
[...]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I'm 18, I was born in Brazil, but I'm half American, and I'm living in Mexico. I'm a senior in high school, and I plan to study Audio Engineering and Music in some college (still deciding.) I've been playing a couple of instruments for almost ten years now, I've been a video game fanatic since I was four, and I love to read. Someone got me into coin collecting when they gave me a big ol' bag full of random coins for christmas.
This is more interesting than the thread asking only about age, besides which a woman never reveals her true age. Suffice it to say I'm not a teenager or a senior, and consider myself younger rather than older.
My interest in coins was revived whilst on a recent holiday to London, which also happened to coincide with a period of unemployment (still job hunting, in fact, much to my immense frustration!), hence why I 'suddenly' popped up on Numista and have had a lot of free time (too much?) to spend on these forum pages.
I am a communications professional, which means I essentially get paid to write, talk and socialise, lol. When I have a job, at least!! Currently based in Asia, which is ironic, since I don't really like Asian coins and much prefer European ones, which are harder to find over here. C'est la vie!
I also enjoy rock music, like to think I can play the electric guitar (I am self-taught and not that great, but can manage a few impressive/recognisable riffs, lol), enjoy watching live bands with a beer or JD Coke in hand and collect some banknotes, a few war medals, plus lots of minerals and some fossils. Haha, kinda random/eclectic!!
hi ,i jut turned 18 two months ago. finished my II PUC (12th grade) this year . to play and watch basketball.started coin collecting when i was 13 years old.
Hi
I'm 28 and work as a cashier of sorts. Looking for a more stable job for now or at least a better paying job. I've only been collecting for about 5 years. I love studying obscure coins and reading history books. Not much in the job department related to history or archaeology around here tho. But hopefully better fortunes will come and I'll find my way soon.
I am 39, I am a PCB Electronics & computing repair engineer, I like to collect absolutely any coin that grabs my attention.
I don't have any other hobbies any more, I have recently been made disabled with a shot to hell nervous system, so nothing strenuous is possible, I used to make coin rings but I can no longer do that as it is labour intensive, but the good to come out of it is it got me interested in collecting the coins rather than punching holes in them.
Restoration addict : Verdigris Removal : Zinc White spot removal : Iron Rust Removal : Silver brooch/necklace mount Removal
What about me... I will be 30 in a few months, I'm French (again), I lived a few months in Czech Republic a few years ago, I'm a chemist and a gamer.
Quote: jamser8923 years old and PhD in criminology and law student. Other hobbies are soccer and rugby. Anyone know of circulating world coins featuring these sports?
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Another great thread. Im 43. And am presently an inner city elementary school teacher. I was a bank teller during the Murrah bombing and am trying to put together a story of how that event almost collapsed the banking and currency system in Oklahoma and may have contributed to the rapid expansion of online banking among the institutions and the federal reserve. I worked for a dutch multinational in a us textbook firm. Worked in the world coin department at APMEX for a time. Love teaching the most tho. My other hobbies besides coins are banknotes, travel, and master gardening. This is a great website and I have felt rewarded and welcome more than I havent.
Library Media Specialist, columnist, collector, and gardener...
Currently 22, student of History at college, and hobbies? Well, history, befriending random cats on the streets, photographing churches and chapels as reminder of where I have been, managing this catalogue, reading and traveling.
I'm 35, and working in the very manly profession of being a secretary at a University.
My other hobbies include playing the drums a bit (poorly), playing darts (slightly better), watching sports (football, darts, NFL). My girlfriend thinks all my interests are geeky.
I am 18, I work as a janitor and I like to collect coins and banknotes as well as video games. I have been coin collecting since 2005 as I wanted to see what coins from around the world looked like and then it also became banknotes. It was not until 2013 that I discovered numista and then my collection started to really take off.
I am 67. I worked mostly as a librarian at colleges and universities in the United States and Australia. Then I became self-employed working from home, a few years as a watcher of television newscasts (really, I recorded them on VHS and sent the tapes to a major city about 50 miles from my home and on the computer sent in coded summaries of the news stories). That ended after Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when company started relying on closed captioning. Then I became a proofreader, getting my work off the Internet from a company in New England, for some years before I retired at age 66.
My first hobby was stamp collecting. I had an excellent collection of people's birth and death centenaries, bicentenaries, etc., and the countries of ASEAN. I had to sell it off due to debts. I guess travel became a hobby as you can see in another thread from my post of the countries visited. I then had large collections of movies on VHS, which I sold off just before DVDs became hot, and music on cassette tapes and CDs. I lost interest in most of these in the 1980s. I started coins to replace actual travel. I have projects relating to stamp collecting though I no longer collect. I have been trying to name a physical place, mostly capital cities and major cities but also islands and capes in some limited examples, located within every current and former stamp issuing entity, which is no easy task (try and find reliable information on the capital of Upper Yafa). I am also working to compile a list of current and former stamp issuing entities and their current or earlier names as appropriate. All this keeps me busy and I still try to record every movie on TV, including premium cable channels, that I have not yet seen and I have over 400 DVDs in my Netflix queue. That is why it is taking me forever to enter my coins on Numista (probably about 1/3 entered, large countries like United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany mostly still to go).
At the moment I am 63 and retired. I worked for only three different companies during my working life.I built dockside cranes for the first 22 years, then had a temporary job in a chocolate factory then the remaining years built parts of the Airbus A330/A340 with Airbus.I have collected coins since I was 11 years old and also collected some banknotes, although not seriously. My favourite banknotes are three that a work colleague gave me when he retired. They came out of his wallet and had kept them there since 1945. They were prisoner of war notes from Germany. Another favourite is a WW1 prisoner of war banknote.WhenI was younger, I used to visit my grandparents often and always looked at the two gun shells that stood on his mantelpiece. After my grandfather died, I had hope to be given them but this was not to be. A few years later, I found out that my aunt had them so I asked her if I could have them and she agreed. They now take pride of place amongst many brass gun shells. Smallest is a .303 British shell case and my largest is a 150mm German shell from 1915.If I had to pick an addition to my gun shell collection, it would be a German 88mm.Pride of place in my small office is the medals my grandfather and grandmother received after WWI and my dad's. He was a Bevan boy down the coal mines, so did not do military service until 1946.
43 male and unmarried and unwilling to marryn - no kids or any possible love children
Only delivering newspapers, but also doing administrative work for my partners accountancy firm
Other hobbies - Philatelics (Big time, member of 5 clubs and managing 3 of them)
Prince music and more
Books
Vinyl and old records
History and timelapse creations
watching camp and b movies
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Okay, I'm 21 and studying law (one year and a half left). I like running. I now focus on 5 and 10km run (I've been doing athletics and long distance running for 8 years but stopped because of university). I also like books (reading them and collecting them) and music (especially metal).
Quote: "Mark240590"Just to get to know people better I thought this could be nice Don't put any fields in you're not comfortable with but ...
I'm 22, work as a plumbing and heating engineer and my other hobbies include modifying cars, rural walks with the girlfriend and mutt, and just doing things with friends.
How life changes.
Im 30 this year, I now work as a Quality Control Inspector in a Press Shop Making panels for Nissan cars having been told to leave my Trade as a Heating engineer due to Having an aggressive form of Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
I still enjoy the rural walks with the dogs and the same woman who’s my wife of almost 4 years now. With the same mutt and his “brother” and our two sons.
Whilst my coin collecting has fallen by the wayside since the birth of my eldest son, I’ve discovered Photography.
Quote: "ngdawa"I just started to read this thread, post by post, until I realized that it was..a thousand posts! So I just scrolled to the bottom, hehe.
I am 25 years old, been collecting for about 5-8 years (don't know when I stopped "saving coins from travels" and began "collecting foreign coins". There's a thin line). Besides coins I also collect banknotes. :wiz:
But except numismatics I don't like anything! Hah, well, not quite true. I love sports, all kinds (almost). When I was younger I played handball and tennis before I changed track and began to train some budo sports like judo and jyu-jyutsu. Now, I'm too lazy and too poor to train anything, hehe! (At least half of it is true). I also love to play board games, photography, travel and just having a good time. I am also a nerd coming to geography (I know all the flags of the world, all the countries and most of the capitals), I also enjoy to learn new languages, and I know about 20 different languages! Besides latin, I can read about 5 alphabets, but I still have a hard time to read Arabic and Hebrew. (;0
Also, I wish there were coin shows where I live.. (;0
Just like Mark I thought it was time to update a little.
I am now 31 and have been married since 4½ years. I managed to get an educatiin (graduated last Friday, tje 17th) and tomorrow I will start my new job. I am now a train driver!
I am still unbeatable when it come to geography; countries, capitals, flags, but my wife is giving me a good competition nowadays. I'm still into languages, and I still struggle reading Arabic and Hebrew.
Quote: "ngdawa"I just started to read this thread, post by post, until I realized that it was..a thousand posts! So I just scrolled to the bottom, hehe.
I am 25 years old, been collecting for about 5-8 years (don't know when I stopped "saving coins from travels" and began "collecting foreign coins". There's a thin line). Besides coins I also collect banknotes. :wiz:
But except numismatics I don't like anything! Hah, well, not quite true. I love sports, all kinds (almost). When I was younger I played handball and tennis before I changed track and began to train some budo sports like judo and jyu-jyutsu. Now, I'm too lazy and too poor to train anything, hehe! (At least half of it is true). I also love to play board games, photography, travel and just having a good time. I am also a nerd coming to geography (I know all the flags of the world, all the countries and most of the capitals), I also enjoy to learn new languages, and I know about 20 different languages! Besides latin, I can read about 5 alphabets, but I still have a hard time to read Arabic and Hebrew. (;0
Also, I wish there were coin shows where I live.. (;0
Just like Mark I thought it was time to update a little.
I am now 31 and have been married since 4½ years. I managed to get an educatiin (graduated last Friday, tje 17th) and tomorrow I will start my new job. I am now a train driver!
I am still unbeatable when it come to geography; countries, capitals, flags, but my wife is giving me a good competition nowadays. I'm still into languages, and I still struggle reading Arabic and Hebrew.
I’ve actually just been looking at some trainee train driver vacancies near me !
starting salary is a bit of a paycut for a couple of years then it starts to rocket. Luckily my wife has just had a promotion at work which means this could be possible.
it would mean I’ve had 3 totally different careers if I were to take it. Maybe one day I’ll find a job I like and I can stay in it 7 years, which seems to be the magic number !
I'm 16 and I'm a student in a secondary school. I started collecting banknotes when I was given a banknote album. I was 8 then. And I have only extended to collecting coins last year. I'm also into aviation and electronics.
age 23, work a stupid factory job doing plastic mold injection but trying to get promoted to something less mind numbing. Like crafting things and currently teaching myself to knit with a loom
Nice thread! I'm 25yrs old since the last nine years thereabouts ;). I've collected coins consistently and without breaks since I was 7. A torontonian since the last few years, but I grew up in Bombay, so I'm still learning to be polite like my fellow compatriots.
I observed that the bulk of our members seem to have non-numismatic activities (if any) that don't require getting out of the house. I suppose that makes sense with the archetypal numismatist. As for me, I'm a desk jockey doing some fu-fu work for my company and they pay me a sh*T load; so i can't complain lol
However, a few years ago I let my health slide and something clicked inside me to never hit those depths again. I've gone from strength to strength since and these days I'm at various points of doing advanced street calisthenics like Muscleups, Handstands, pistol squats etc as well as lifting heavy (130-150% of my bodyweight) and advanced jumprope skills like double unders, criss-cross, mic release, rope wraps etc. As such, I lead a fairly active lifestyle which includes quite a bit of international travelling. As a result, coin collecting or rather the sorting and cataloging part often takes a back seat. But I was in Singapore earlier this month and I did do a lot of coin shopping and dealer hopping..so that was fun!
Quote: "drwow"age 23, work a stupid factory job doing plastic mold injection but trying to get promoted to something less mind numbing. Like crafting things and currently teaching myself to knit with a loom
I'm 44 yrs old and I work in a factory of plastic mold me too, I'm quality manager. About other hobbies unfortunately I don't have free time but I like to fish (lake or surfcasting on the sea directly from the beach), to pick mushrooms (I have licence to recognize good ones) ...
Hi! I'm 22 years old, and an architecture student in the Philippines, currently running for honors. I've started collecting coins as a kid with my parents' and relatives' support. Other than collecting, I am also a visual artist - I've taught origami to a couple of groups in the past (though I don't do art much ever since I entered architecture school). I also collect rocks, dice, rubber balls, and seashells (though I stopped collecting seashells for environmental reasons). I'm also a heritage advocate, having toured a couple of people in our capital. Other than studying in school, my schoolmates and I continue voicing out for human rights, an ongoing concern in my country.
I haven't spoken much in the Numista forum yet since I'm still navigating myself through the website. I do hope I will be able to get along with you guys!
Architecture Grad | Visual Artist | Coin Collector
Renacimiento Manila | Origami Pilipinas | UP TFA | Climate Reality https://www.instagram.com/abonymous916/
I am 62 years old, and I collect coins since I was 7 years old.
Currently, I am a professor of Computer Science at the university.
I collect many other items:
coffer makers (the moka type)
small glasses for sweet liqueurs
cookbooks from all the world
mistery books in Italian and English
eggcups
glass fruit holders
In the past I colelct also stamps but now I have stopped.
But I tried to avoid to collect too many things, for example, I prevented me to collect banknotes and phone cards.
Quote: "drwow"age 23, work a stupid factory job doing plastic mold injection but trying to get promoted to something less mind numbing. Like crafting things and currently teaching myself to knit with a loom
yeah, I have to over check the quality of plastic bumpers. My department is Pressing and Plastic Moulding. Those lads standing at the end of the machine have a boring job !
I'm currently 14 which makes me a secondary school student in Hong Kong. I used to be one of the best in my school, always participating in various competitions across Hong Kong and often attaining prizes. Though I've since declined and now I am a normal human being again.
My first 'hobby' was maths. I was miles ahead of others in primary school and always won the first prize in the Hong Kong Mathematical Olympiad, but I've since lost my passion for mathematics. Recently, I've regained this 'passion' though and I began studying calculus and complex analysis in my free time.
Last year was the peak of my hobbies' development. Chemistry, programming, chess and history all became interesting to me. I used to be active on lichess.org (a chess website), but I am yet to play an actual competitive game of chess! I started learning C++ and touched concepts like dynamic programming and graph theory. Collecting coins brought me to history (well, obviously) and chemistry (composition analysis). Chemistry was much harder than I thought.
One thing leads to another and this year I've completely procrastinated, which made my academic results plummet. I've begun playing games like Europa Universalis IV which further distracts me from what I should do. PSA don't play computer games.
Well a lot has changed, well not really. I will be 58 in a few weeks. Still working in a spring and wire form place. This Saturday I set up and ran an extension spring . Out of .500 inch wire and at 17 pounds each. Used just under 4000 pounds of wire. For a short time I worked as maintenance for plastic mold injection machines. For aplace that made crushes . Sad , I believe it was the last place that made small children crushes. I have asset they are only 24 inches high. Leftovers from polio . We sent a lot of the crushes to the UK, Parker Medical.
Coin collecting ,well , put away for sometime. And trying to get back up and running. To put in a nut shell got a very bad feeling with it. The post and people. But I think I well never stop being a coin collector. But I think I well be more in the back ground.
Work: Graphic design and commercial printing technician.
Other hobbies: Mountain biking, juggling, anything outdoors. Kayaking.
Other collections: WWII memorabilia with my wife (Nothing rare or expensive, just because), other minor antiques and old tools. Also seem to have a bit of a vintage bike collection going. I guess I just like things made of metal.
I am 39 year old and from India. Currently working as lead software test engineer. I started coin collection as a hobby few months back. First milestone looking forward is at least 1 coin from each country. Now i have from 162. Keep in touch and have a nice day
Pramod
“Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
Quote: "Marcel Mine"I'm 20 years old, working as a photographer, planning to go to university. My main hobby is coins, but I also collect postage stamps.
I’d love to work as a photographer ! That’s my main hobby these days :)
Hello everyone! Today I have 61 years (Feb. of 1959), I am a Brazilian entrepreneurial businessman in the field of administration of condominiums. A few years ago I was attended to try to complement my collection of coins and banknotes started in youth. I try to add a piece for KM# (circulation coin). Madness, I know. Today he is in overlooking albums more than 11 thousand coins of each corner of the world. I am associated with Brazilian numistatic society where we slept a good thing at weekly auctions. My collection of banknotes are waiting for the Xavier to make available space for them in the Numista. I love reading, I read a lot. I like history, astronomy, cinema, good music and hiking. I would like to exchange coins with the other collectors around the world (I am 2.3 thousand for that), but unfortunately the mail in my country lets you wish, as well as there is legal restrictions on the post of coins to the outside. One day who knows ...
Wilson Roberto Vasques Nunes.
Banknote catalog referee for Brazil.
Hey! I’m a 14 year old boy in Hong Kong and I’m, predictably, a student. I have way too much hobbies. Stargazing, birdwatching, collecting all kinds of stuff.
Most of which I can’t actually do because I’m pretty much locked up at home because of the coronavirus. I’ve been here for more than a month. I only go out a few times per week. Countable on one hand. I miss outside. I don’t think my eyes can cope with the online classes anymore. Help.
光復香港 時代革命
五大訴求 缺一不可
Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times
I am 33, and spend most of my time mountain biking. Also love off roading, kayaking, Nordic skiing. I collect books and Lego as well. Love watching the NBA, the Simpsons, and Futurama
67 years young, retired electrical engineer, currently at Art Historical Masters studies.
Continuing my father's small coins collection. Other junk I collect(ed): pre-1950's tube radios, phone-cards, stamps, minerals, old postcards, women... Other hobbies: Africa rafting, Himalaya, Iceland, scuba, desert... Totally enjoying life and I wish all of you the same!
Quote: "VieillePile"58 yo, crisis manager, after several years in the military as reserve; started collecting coins in 2008.
Collecting mainly modern coins from my border region (belgium francs, german marks, french francs) and Latin Monetary Union.
Rugby fan too.
I'm 20, currently a poor tired student who's trying to reconcile work and study. It's really hard, I haven't though it would be so difficult. Sometimes I even have to buy assignments on https://studenterra.com/ to just sleep for more than 3 hours.
Hi everyone!
I'm 24 years old. I'm a doctor. My hobbies are: music listening, vintage British saloons and of course collecting. I collect stamps, coins and banknotes. I especially collect coins with the effigies of the British monarchs, Euro, Italian pre-€ coins and Portuguese pre-€ coins.
I collect coins since when I was 6-7 years old but my interest in coins goes back a long time say my parents...when I was a child I used to look into relatives' bags and wallets, I don't know why, I didn't steal nothing but looking back on it now it's so embarrassing
33 years, originally from Azerbaijan, but have been living in Germany for the last 8 years
Working in Commercial RE area.
Other hobbies: cycling, reading
other collections: books, different alcoholic beverages
collecting coins since childhood, first coins were inherited Soviet commemoratives
Quote: "Lotus07"14 years old, fanatic coin and beer coaster collector and no job for the moment. Just a pupil who hates school B)
Greetings, Lotus07
Wow it's been a long time since I posted this haha. I'm 22 atm and I'm a bachelor History student. Currently I'm in my fourth year since I took a gap year to study Russian and some other Russia-related subjects in Estonia. I still study Russian in my spare time, hope to achieve level A2 this year. I started to reduce my hobbies, since my coins and other collections started to take up too much space and weight. Right now I only collect banknotes and paper money because of their historical background and artsy designs. I also have an old Saab 900 from 1990 in my possession, which I slowly restore in my spare time, together with my dad. I actually roadtripped to Estonia back and forth, which is one of the most awesome things you can do with a classic from the 80s. I have some more travel plans in the future, like going to Tröllhattan and to Chernobyl. This is me with 'Laura' the Swedish Tank:
If you want to see photos of me fixing up my old banger and the adventures I make with it, you can follow me on Instagram (@zilverblauweautoboi)
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
I'm 20, currently work as an IT/Install assistant at a company that sells water treatment systems, and have been happily married for one year now!!
My other hobbies include collecting Banknotes and stamps, listening to music (love rock and country, also my icon is my favorite band's logo ) , I play both guitar and piano, somewhat of a gamer, tattoos (currently have 5 and plan on getting more) and I love watching movies and TV series with my amazing wife. Also enjoy hikes, fishing, walks, and pretty much anything outdoors.
My interest are pretty varied, as you can see, but coin collecting has been such a great adventure (plus, I really like to organize)
I enjoy seeing what other collectors do outside of coins.
Looking to continue completing my collection.
I am currently only trading in the US. Will consider international if swap is good and worth it.
Quote: "Lotus07"I have some more travel plans in the future, like going to Tröllhattan
Mate, it's Trollhättan. But you almost spelled as the dialect.
In their dialect they say "Trôllhätta', mellan Värna å schlätta" (or in Standard Swedish: "Trollhättan, mellan Vänern och slätten"), which means "Trollhättan, between Vänern and the plain".
Slätt is a large expanse of relatively flat land. Vänern is the largest lake in Sweden.
I understand Chernobyl but what's the draw of Trollhattan, apart from the awesome Nordic name?
Further on the subject of that wonderful Swedish language, I belong to a group which researches the history of The Rossendale Forest area of England's wild North. I lived in the Southern part, around Holcombe which has been settled since at least the Iron Age but went to school at the very Northern edge, near Bacup. For my fellow Americans, think Virginia / West Virginia.
It wasn't widely developed until the industrial revolution and the demand for coal. Although the school was quite magnificent, the area in general was considered to be low class and vulgar. They spoke what I can only describe as a foreign language. Actually it turns out they were. Modern linguists have traced many of the phrases back to Swedish invaders who settled in the area. So now when I hear from an old school friend who tells me to "Stop yer sen skrieking fer nowt and gimmi a sken." I can quite understand him.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Quote: "pnightingale"So now when I hear from an old school friend who tells me to "Stop yer sen skrieking fer nowt and gimmi a sken." I can quite understand him.
Lol! That looks like someone is trying to write down a Swedish phrase their Swedish immigrant grandfather used to say when they were kids.
a business mgt. student. fomr PHL. 
Suffice it to say I'm not a teenager or a senior, and consider myself younger rather than older.
Currently based in Asia, which is ironic, since I don't really like Asian coins and much prefer European ones, which are harder to find over here. C'est la vie!
and collect some banknotes, a few war medals, plus lots of minerals and some fossils. Haha, kinda random/eclectic!! 
to play and watch basketball.started coin collecting when i was 13 years old. 
PSA don't play computer games. 
