Hey guys! My name is Michael D. Larsen and I'm 27 years old. I've lurked here and used this forum as a resource for years! So...I spent the last hour or two remembering my login information and here I am! I am a career IT administrator, I also work on my family's butterfly farm/breedery and have since I was a kid, I also own my own business Larsen & Co., which DBA a couple of different names which I won't say so I don't self promote :). Before I had to move across the country to Phoenix, AZ I worked at my local coin shop as a coin dealer for about 3 years in the Cleveland, Ohio area (the area I grew up). I loved every second of it and miss it daily.
I've honestly lived all over the Country, I was born in East Cleveland Ohio, and grew up in Mentor. At 14 we moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a little while, 9 months or so then Phoenix, Arizona. After a few years, we moved BACK to Hudson/Akron, Ohio aaaand that's not all we then moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, about 45 minutes northwest of Nashville, before moving back to the Cleveland area, and I've now moved back to Phoenix after accepting an amazing IT Job offer here. My family was not Military, just had a dad who worked his butt off to climb the corporate ladder.
I am a diehard coin collector. While I was still a child, my father had (and still has!) a coin collection and I was infatuated from the moment I laid eyes on it, from then on I have been very active in the coin-collecting community. I worked as a professional coin dealer at my local coin shop for 3 years. When I was a teenager my mother gave me a
Mercury dime she had put up for many years. It wasn't a particularly pretty dime but I fell in love right there. You can probably guess that my favorite coin is a
Mercury dime 
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Well, I guess that's about it! Oh, actually, if you didn't know Monarch Butterflies are endangered! Planting a native Milkweed species in your backyard can dramatically improve your local Monarch population and their overall population, as habitat loss is one of the biggest factors behind their decline.
Just leaving this here!
Posted 02/17/2025 06:14 am
