Best Job For A Numismatic?

It's about your coworkers and boss more than the transactions. I was lucky enough to work in a retail store with a manager who was okay with letting me comb through the tills, as long as I did it off the clock and as long as my till always balanced. I had some friendly competition with the old man in the cash office, but I was able to grow my collection substantially during my 4 year tenure at that store. I ended up with about $6 face in silver coins, a few proofs, a few dozen wheat cents, and quite a few 40s/50s nickels.

You're a bit young yet to stand a real chance at getting the job, but I would *strongly* recommend working at a gas station or liquor store if you're interested in getting the cool finds. I can't even tell you how many people used their "lucky dollar" to buy lotto tickets. One guy even spent a 50 year old $10 star note on a scratch off. Likewise, plenty of people decided to liquidate their half dollar collection into either booze or gas back in 2009. One of my coworkers spent over $50 in 40% halves on gas when his bank account reached critical levels (I wasn't able to get to them in time though :( ).

Also, I'd recommend that you avoid the bank teller job. They see lots of good stuff, but every teller I ever talked to was forbidden from sorting out the "keepers". My usual teller saved a solid roll of Buffalo nickels for me because she'd lose her job if she kept them for herself.

I worked in a supermarket in colorado one summer and it was mostly coins and bills coming in, because it was touristy, if I had been a coin collector then......... but I saved a few things, like Buffalo nickels and old pennies and things like that.

In my time I've never told anyone that I collect and have just been really careful about how I exchange coins that want. Now I don't work with coins at all, which is frustrating.

Go to college! ASAP.!
Bachelor's degree minimum.
Use Govt. loans and grants. Most colleges give academic loans.
Use the teller / cashier job to buy Subway and Taco Bell while attending.
You' lll thank me.
Good luck.

I worked in a little mom-and-pop restaurant. As part of my duties as a cook, I had to change out the register twice during my shift and verify the take. What this did was allow me to count (and go through) two cash drawers a shift. I found tons of coins and collectible notes back then. BUT, as the moderator noted, if you take job like this, be sure your boss knows what you are doing.

Other benefits - flexible hours if you do the commuting thing or possibly convenient when you return for long weekends/vacations as a means to make some money for school/bills (and scratch a collector's itch). Good luck on the hunt for the perfect job!!

Because it'll require initial capitalization the size of a college education cost to accrue enough inventory for a hope at real "income." And even then on an hourly basis compared to the work entailed, he's do better at McDonald's.

You're not going to get rich - or even generate a middle-class income - ever - selling $50 coins.

Get into a job that actually interests you and have fun people around you at all times. There's nothing worse than a drab boring job. Your job shouldn't feel like a job. It should feel fun and natural. And it should build towards something else in the future.

One person in college who was helping me with my resume said that her goal was the job title. This is false. Your goals should be WHAT you accomplished at that job, not the job itself.

Something to think about. Let yourself grow in your job. Get to a point where you say to yourself I can do better than this job and I've accomplished everything I wanted to and there's nothing left for me to learn here.

OK I just have to add this...

Bank Robber or Time Traveler, or both... just a little more work on the flux-capacitor and I'll have a few hundred CC Morgan's.