Counselor Profile

Counselor	Lee Berman CPA
Council	District	Type	Unit	Role
Atlanta Area	Foothills	Troop	435	Committee Member
Email	ljberman@bellsouth.net
Address	749 Willow Ridge Ct Marietta, GA 30068
Home Phone	Mobile Phone	Work Phone
private	404-403-4100	404-403-4100
Employer	Field
AT&T	Accountant-Leasing
Website
Biography	Mr. Berman is a Certified Public Accountant with a strong interest in his family, friends, community and career, not to mention a huge Georgia Bulldogs fan. Mr. Berman has spent most of his life in Marietta, Georgia and all the while has been an avid collector of various things that interested him, from coins, stamps and comic books, to Georgia Bulldog collectables for his office. He has undergraduate degrees in Real Estate from University of Georgia and Accounting from Virginia Commonwealth University. Mr. Berman has worked for several of the largest real estate investment firms in the world and has many years of financial and operational analysis experience in many industries in addition to real estate, including finance, insurance, manufacturing, advertising, utilities and telecommunications to name a few. Besides his interest in collecting and Georgia Bulldogs football, Mr. Berman loves spending time with his family and friends, camping, hiking and backpacking, and yes, Scouting!
Why I am qualified to teach Coin Collecting	Mr. Berman has been an avid coin collector from a young age. Collecting coins for more than 40 years, at one point Mr. Berman had a world collection exceeding 10,000 various coins, from hundreds of nations, many no longer in existence, from every corner of the earth, covering approximately 2 millenia. Mr. Berman can identify most coins and their origins on sight and is very familiar with the books and tools of the coin collecting trade. Today his collection is much more modest and manageable and maintained for the purpose of sharing his knowledge.
Prerequisites for this Activity	Prerequisites needed to complete the Coin Collecting Merit Badge: (NOTE: The numbers herein correspond with Coin Collecting Merit Badge Workbook, which can be found online at http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/04/Coin_Collecting.pdf) 3.b. Show five different grade examples of the same coin type. (For example, a Lincoln cent in uncirculated, extremely fine, fine, very good, and good.) 6. Collect and show your counselor five different (state) quarters you have acquired from circulation. 7. Collect from circulation a set of currently circulating U.S. coins. Include one coin of each denomination (cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar). For each coin, locate the mint marks, if any, and the designer's initials, if any. cent nickel, dime quarter half-dollar dollar 9. Do ONE of the following: a. Collect and identify 50 foreign coins from at least 10 different countries. -OR- b. Collect and identify 20 bank notes from at least five different countries. -OR- c. Collect and identify 15 different tokens or medals. -OR- d. For each year since the year of your birth, collect a date set of a single type of coin 10. Do ONE of the following: a. Tour a U.S. Mint facility, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing facility, or a Federal Reserve bank, or a numismatic museum or exhibit, and describe what you learned to your counselor. -OR- b. With your parent's permission, attend a coin show or coin club meeting, or view the Web site of the U.S. Mint or a coin dealer, and report what you learned. (Note: Per National, “parent’s” means “parent’s or guardian’s”.) -OR- c. Give a talk about coin collecting to a group such as your troop, a Cub Scout pack, or class at school. (or to the Merit Badge class) -OR- d. Do drawings of five Colonial-era U.S. coins.
Youth Protection not completed within the past two years.