Professional and avid coin collectors will often not simply collect coins, but will specialize on a specific types of coin and then attempt to collect every coin in the series, i. e. one from every year that type of coin was minted with all variations, most notably mint mark, but can also be material ; the coin was minted out of ( some years, the same coin might be made out of two or even three different metal combinations, such as steel, nickel, iron, gold, bronze or silver ) and even artistic differences or errors on the die that struck the coins and at the highest quality that can be found.

Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in Cuba and some former Soviet republics.

Windows NT 3. 1 ( Microsoft marketing wanted Windows NT to appear to be a continuation of Windows 3. 1 ) arrived in Beta form to developers at the July 1992 Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco.

The league joined with teams in Michigan and Ontario to form the first fully professional International Professional Hockey League ( IPHL ), in 1904.

Professional wrestling shows can be considered a form of theater in the round, with the ring, ringside area, and entryway comprising a thrust stage.

Professional wrestling promotion Osaka Pro Wrestling features two wrestlers using the ring names Hideyoshi and Masamune, who together form the tag team " Sengoku ".

In 1920, the Bulldogs were one of 14 teams to form the American Professional Football Association ( APFA ), which would become the National Football League ( NFL ) two years later.

In the movie Léon ( also known as The Professional ), when Léon and Mathilda check into the hotel, Mathilda tells Léon she's filling the form out with " the name of a girl in my class who makes me sick.

Following the season's conclusion St. Paul, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and Lincoln announced they were leaving the league to form a new independent league with five teams from the folded Central Baseball League in the southern United States ; the new league was to be known as the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

Professional sports was introduced in the form of a minor league baseball team.

* Bob Keller ( American Professional Wrestler ) Listed in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Top 500 Wrestlers 4 times, Former Host for American Pro Wrestlings Power Hour Agent and Manager for many former WCW and WWE Superstars ... Most Noted for teaming with Hagerstown Native Shane Heimburger ( Shadows ) to form the Team of The Mega Rockers

Professional development may also come in the form of pre-service or in-service professional development programs.

A modified form of apprenticeship is required for before an engineer is licensed as a Professional Engineer in any of the states of the United States.

This new collection of buildings will form the ' Professional ' campus of the university, housing business, economics and law functions.

( This FIFA-sanctioned league merged the following season with the non-sanctioned National Professional Soccer League, which had also begun in 1967, to form the North American Soccer League ).

In 1968 the league merged with the National Professional Soccer League to form the North American Soccer League.

At the Ateneo Professional Schools, programs and units like the Graduate School of Business ' Mulat-Diwa, the Leaders for Health Program, the Law School's Human Rights Center and Legal Aid programs aim to form leaders.

Professional grass-cutting equipment ( used by large establishments such as universities, sports stadiums and local authorities ) usually take the form of much larger, dedicated, ride-on platforms or attachments that can be mounted on, or behind, a standard tractor unit ( a " gang-mower ").

* 1997 Select League and the former American Professional Soccer League merged to form A-League under the USISL umbrella.

In February 2010 the Urban League of Essex County, New Jersey announced a partnership with The National Association of Professional Women to form a national " Open Doorways " project.

Professional duelists used holmgangs as a form of legalized robbery ; they could claim rights to land, women, or property, and then prove their claims in the duel at the expense of the legitimate owner.

Its surviving teams merged with survivors of the South East Hockey League to form the Southern Professional Hockey League for the 2004 – 2005 season.

Professional instruction started in 1959 when the non-profit NAUI was formed, which later effectively was split, to form the for-profit PADI in 1966.

On March 30, 2009, the Sea Wolves announced that the organization would be suspending operations again for the 2009 – 10 season but a little more than a month later the team's management announced that pro hockey would continue to be played on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the form of the Mississippi Surge in the Southern Professional Hockey League.

Professional hockey arrived in 1935 in the form of the Rochester Cardinals, a member of the International Hockey League.

Representatives of those organizations ( the New Jersey Association of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, and the Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers ) met in New York City and decided to form a new, nontechnical organization that would be dedicated to the interests of licensed professional engineers.

Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific musical genre, such as classical or rock.

* Jarrett Gardner Professional guitarist for the hard rock band Pure Rubbish

* Professional Murder Music, a Los Angeles based rock band

Professional medium format SLR cameras ( typically using 120 / 220 roll film ) use a hybrid solution, since such a large focal-plane shutter would be difficult to make and / or may run slowly.

Michelle Feldman of the now defunct Professional Women's Bowling Association became the first female to roll 300 on American national television, when she accomplished the feat in a 1997 Prime Sports broadcast.

The Arcade control scheme allows for easier control of the plane via a single joystick with automatic rudders, while the Professional controls offer separate control of the pitch, roll and yaw of the plane.

She was awarded the Professional Handlers' Ass'ns' Leonard Brumby, Sr. Memorial Trophy ( named for the founder-originator of the Junior Classes.

Horton Smith of Detroit, a former president of the Professional Golfers Association, will receive the Ben Hogan Trophy for his comeback following a recent illness.

He was heralded as `` Sportsman of the Year '' by Sports Illustrated, and last night was acclaimed in Rochester as the `` Professional Athlete of the Year '', a distinction that earned for him the $10,000 diamond-studded Hickok Belt.

Professional anthropological bodies often object to the use of anthropology for the benefit of the state.

After the original version of AMOS, Europress released two other versions: Easy AMOS, a simpler version for beginners, and AMOS Professional, a more advanced version with added features, such as a better IDE, ARexx support, a new UI sublanguage and new flow control constructs.

On September 5, 1901 Patrick T. Powers, president of the Eastern League announced the formation of the second National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the NABPL or " NA " for short.

As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).

For the second exam, called the Principles and Practices, Part 2, or the Professional Engineering exam, candidates may select a particular engineering discipline's content to be tested on ; there is currently not an option for BME with this, meaning that any biomedical engineers seeking a license must prepare to take this examination in another category ( which does not affect the actual license, since most jurisdictions do not recognize discipline specialties anyway ).

It has been suggested that chemists going into employment in scientific research should honor a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists which is required as a Professional Chemist.

Professional athletes such as Kobe Bryant ( above ) who play for various sports teams are one of the most sought after careers in the world.

* Brendan Dolan ( 1973-), Professional darts player for the PDC

Professional qualification for logisticians usually carry post-nominal letters.

* CPHQ ( Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality ) conferred by the Healthcare Quality Certification Board of the National Association for Healthcare Quality

Professional cheerleaders and dancers cheer for sports such as football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, or hockey.

For his professional work he was bestowed the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology by the APA in 1972.

Professional dancers are usually employed on contract or for particular performances / productions.

Headrick founded the Professional Disc Golf Association ( PDGA ), Disc Golf Association ( DGA ), and Recreational Disc Golf Association ( RDGA ) as governing bodies for professional, competitive amateur, and family-oriented play, respectively, and worked on standardizing the rules and the equipment for the quickly-growing sport.

Professional bodies of note for electrical engineers include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology ( IET ).

For example, the Survey of Professional Forecasters contains forecasts for many forecasters ( cross-sectional observations ), at many points in time ( time series observations ), and at multiple forecast horizons ( a third dimension ).

Professional fictional languages are those languages created for use in books, movies, television shows, video games, comics, toys, and musical albums ( prominent examples of works featuring fictional languages include the Middle-earth and Star Trek universes and the game Myst ).

However, the University of Adelaide's Centre for Learning and Professional Development gave a slightly different range of Generation X birthdates, ranging between 1965 and 1982.

Professional genealogists may also conduct research for others, publish books on genealogical methods, teach, or produce their own databases.

* Windows XP Professional, for business and power users contained all features in Home Edition.

* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, released on 25 April 2005 for home and workstation systems utilizing 64-bit processors based on the x86-64 instruction set developed by AMD as AMD64 ; Intel calls their version Intel 64