Hello Jim:

It is nice to see that this list is gaining members. Unfortunately, lately
the list has remained quiet, the last message I received was this:

From: "Sebastian Heath" <heath@...>
> To: <amnumsoc-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:49 PM
> Subject: AMNUMSOC-L: Numismatics on the Web

before he went to Madrid. I answered this to his own email, actually twice,
but no word has come ever since. I don't know what could happen to him.
Anybody knows?

Jim, you seem to have a wide interest in numismatics. I wonder if you have
Illyrian coins (Apollonia and Dyrrhachium) to identify or discuss, I'd be
happy to exchange views on these. See my web page devoted to that area.

Best wishes

Gyula

Gyula Petranyi dr.
petranyi@...
www.geocities.com/asklapiadas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <krisjim@...>
To: <amnumsoc-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:55 AM
Subject: AMNUMSOC-L: Greetings From A New Member


> Hello,
>
> After about 30 years in the coin collecting hobby, I have finally
> gotten "serious" and joined both this scholarly organization and the
> ANA as well. I really think the ANS has some great resources and am
> interested to see what comes from it after the move is done.
>
> A bit about me: I started collecting coins in the early 1970s when my
> grandfather sat me down with a bag of wheat pennies and a fresh
> Whitman folder and showed me how to sort them by date and mintmark. I
> was hooked. I gave up for a while when gold and silver shot through
> the roof and then regained interest in my late teens.
>
> In college, I had a brilliant frind who went on to study nuclear
> physics, we went to a prayer group together. I collected American
> halves, he had assembled a fine collection of Roman and Judean coins.
> We made a few swaps of our duplicates. So since about 1985, I have
> been collecting ancient coins, in the 1990s I started collecting
> Reformation era German & European coins.
>
> I took 2 years of Hebrew and 1&1/2 years of Greek in college at
> Bethany Lutheran College. That was about a decade ago and of course I
> still use it to my astonishment. I am a political scientist by
> education (International Relations with a Middle East focus) but have
> little use for it in my daily life.
>
> I am looking forward to many arcane discussions about types and
> varieties of the coins I collect and sell and a am fairly starved for
> adult conversation as I spend most of my time at home with my 4 small
> kids. You can only watch so much kids tv on cable before you wonder if
> your mind is rotting away. I find myself watching a lot of late night
> cable documentaries on everything from the Romans to the Mayans. I
> just watched one about Mary the mother of Jesus and one about the
> Samurai last night.
>
> Wow! More than I anticipated saying. Well, have a great day, keep me
> in the loupe,
>
> Jim McGarigle
>
>
>
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