School Coin Club Meeting (2)

LincolnCentMan

Today was the second coin club meeting. We should be meeting three Fridays out of four now.

The meeting had 15 students in attendance.

I had almost all new students in attendance this week. The attendance is capped at 20, but students may be pulled by other subject areas where teachers have need to provide additional academic support. ...thus, the five that were missing.

I had a request during the last coin club meeting for me to bring a 1909-S VDB. I began the meeting by showing them a PCGS VF30 example of that issue. Since they were mostly new students, I covered the basics of the top three coin grading services. Then I went into the history of the mystique about the SVDB. We talked about how painters always put their name on their works and it is no different for artists that design coins, except they put their initials. We discussed why people were upset about the placement of VDB and was therefor removed.... Giving us the 1909 VDB, 1909-S, and 1909-S VDB.

I would like to give a special thanks to wingedliberty1957 the owner of "WingedLiberty's 'Fireball Rainbow' Wheatbacks" registry set listed in the Lincoln Cents Toned Basic Set, Circulation Strikes (1909-1958.) I showed the students examples of his 1909, 1909-VDB, 1909-S, and 1909-S VDB to show them the difference on mint mark/vdb placement.

I then showed the kids an NGC G6 1922 Plain. I pointed out that there were no cents made in Philadelphia that year and that coins made there did not possess a mint mark. I took hypotheses as how the 1922-"P" came into existence. When I revealed the answer there were "Ohhh's" that went through the room. This made for a good segway for the next coin I showed: a 1937-D three legged buffalo. I then showed some super nicely toned PCGS Jefferson nickels. Next I pulled out my dansco albums for Liberty nickels, Buffalo Nickels, and Jefferson Nickels. Pointed out the keys to each and added that many of the Jefferson nickels could still be found in circulation.

Next we did door prizes. Every student got a wheat cent. I also gave out three gem BU 1960 large date cents, a VF 1937-D buff, a VG 1906-D dime, and a MS64 1958-D quarter.... all raw. One student (who was the first one there) pointed out that he was the first one there, and that I had given a door prize to the first person there last time. ...He was the one that got the Barber dime.

That concluded the coin club meeting. There were some kids that wanted to tell me about their family members who collected coins. One girl said she collects world paper money. They wanted to talk more, but it was time to do a class transition.

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Also, in my previous post, there were a number of members that expressed an interest in donating to the club. I have gained approval to do this and will be posting the school address as soon as I find out which one is the correct one. I will be able to send a thank-you letter on school letter head. 100% of things sent will go straight to students. For those who asked me to send a PM to them. I will as soon as I get the correct address... most likely on Monday.

Lincolncentman

Smudge

Nice going. Set the hook and reel them in.

ricko

That is great.... Coin interest formed at a young age, will often resurface later in life - and sometimes it carries through all the years. Cheers, RickO

Swampboy

golden

Well done!

ClosedLoop

Way to go, you are doing a great thing.

messydesk

Very cool! I've said before, and I'll say again that being a collector of anything is a personality trait you're born with or without. You may lose non-collectors, but if you can identify collectors of anything, those are the ones you'll be able to get into collecting coins. If you ever talk about forming, cataloging, and studying a collection, ask how many have built a collection of anything, whether it's stuffed animals, Hot Wheels, or vacation souvenirs, then compare and contrast one of those collections with coins.