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wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,972 ✭✭✭✭✭
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On a current thread, I just gave a little backround on my 10 1/2 year old son, Justin, who has been a serious coin collector from the age of around 5. Are there are other young men out there (say under 18) who are board members and are serious coin collectors? Come say hello to us all here. image Wondercoin.
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  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    WC,

    I fit right in if you count emotional age.image Seriously, what other thread is your background on Justin found in...I would love to read it.

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • cyphercypher Posts: 173
    I'm 22 and have been at it since I was 5, I just wish I would have known a lot more when I was 18 though lol image

    Jake
  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,972 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Roger: It is on the thread regarding #1 Registry sets right beneath this thread. Wondercoin. P.S. Whatever "violent" side Justin has acquired, I owe it all to your playstation games you sent him image
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  • MastaHankyMastaHanky Posts: 933 ✭
    I'm 23 and started when I was 8. But I don't qualify with the current age restriction, so never mind. image
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    My son is 15 and picks up the seconds when I get coins slabbed. Here is working on Kennedys and Washington proofs. He was drooling when Nick put his collection up for auction, the only thing he could say was "Look at all the 70DCAM, screw the collage fund, buy me the 70s". Well he didn't get any PR70DCAMs, and will maybe make it to collage. image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    I took my kids to their first coin show, in Modesto, CA, this weekend. My son (9) liked it o.k., but my daughter (7 1/2) really got into it. They both got about a dozen filler Mercuries for their folders, and my daughter got the rest of the State Quarters she needed to complete Whitman Folder 1 (mostly the P's we can't find out here). She was really excited to fill up that book!

    She also took the initiative to pick out two additional items she saw at the show, a pink Mardi Gras token from 1974 (which wouldn't have been my choice, but she thought it was pretty) and a 80% off-center Lincoln cent error -- for $2.00 -- which I had to admit was a good buy, and very neat.

    As others have noted, little girls like to collect coins, too. I saw many of them at the show. The prototypical "young collector" was invariably male when I was young and belonged to coin clubs, but now it seems to be a much more "equal opportunity" affair. . . .

    P.S. All the dealers, of course, were happy to see the "young blood," and told them so.
    "The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."

    William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Well, I don't meet the age thang, but I wanted to commend those of you here (and elsewhere) on the board who have been working to make coin collecting accessible to the children and young men/women by donating coins. It is a fabulous idea and can only help our hobby -- and give us a reward far better than a DMPL designation.

    Neil
    Blog and Pics
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My six year old nephew is interested, and a couple of my adopted "nephews". 15 & 19.

    I had a "niece" who collected, but she lost interest years ago when she turned 16.
    Tempus fugit.
  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    I have a 10 year old son who dabs in and out. I let him on the boards once--Kobracoins I think his name was. Had to revoke his rights after he was rather rude to people and exagerated his own holdings.
    Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!
  • daveyndaveyn Posts: 150 ✭✭
    My 12yr. old Nick has two Kennedy Registry sets going Both circs and proofs. He's got a pretty decent start thanks to you Mitch, It's a hard decission between a coin and a Game Cube game sometims. I guess I really should work to get him on the board, he might have some fun.


    Daveyn
    Dave
    NOBLE REGISTRY
  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,972 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Daveyn: Make sure you son requests the "12 year old" specials image Wondercoin.
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  • AlanBAlanB Posts: 1,272
    I'm 14 and I've been collecting for about 2 years. I started out collecting the oldest coins I could afford but recently have moved into gem moderns. Last summer I started a registry set of Ikes but I can no longer afford to buy the gems and most below MS65 look like crap so I'm now going to shows and dealers trying to cherrypick a nice gem or even a dcam proof. Had some luck with dcams at the last show so now I'm saving to send some of them in.
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  • MastaHankyMastaHanky Posts: 933 ✭
    WC, can I have the "12-year old special" on that '36-S Rhode Island you have on your website?

    If not, what's the "23-year old special" discount rate? imageimage
  • vam44vam44 Posts: 291 ✭
    <<< My icon!image
    My 8 year old son has very little interest in coins...however; he did take a shine to the $500 bill I had a couple months ago!
    At least the little guy has his priorities in order!image
    A dealer once asked me if I noticed any three-legged buffalos on the bourse,to which I replied,"...no,but I saw alot of two-legged jackasses..."
  • scherscher Posts: 924 ✭
    to alan..
    keep up the good work..
    i think its cool that you have collected the old stuff as well as the new and also that you see the differences at the 65 grade level.
    bruce scher
  • WhitewashqtrWhitewashqtr Posts: 736 ✭✭✭
    My son (just turned 11) but not like me likes the older coins. He prefers Liberty Heads Nickels to Jeffersons, Seated Liberty Quarters to Washingtons, Franklins to Kennedy. He is working on an XF-AU Peace Dollar collection. It has stalled some but I think he will pick it up soon.

    He actually has a great eye for top pieces. Picks out flaws immediately and oohs and ahhs at the finest coins. I showed him the Morgan Dollar collection up for sale on eBay and he just went bonkers. But then. he was sad to know that he will not own one of the coins in that set!!

    I may take him to ANA since its right here!!

    MITCH -- GREAT THREAD!!


    HAVE A GREAT DAY! THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!!
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My dear friend has a son named Jared.

    Jared is 13 years old. He has recently started looking at circulated alves from the bank and looking for old as well and uncirculated halves. In a bunch of bank rolled halves he found a Franklin half dollar as well as 2 1964 Kennedy halves.

    Also searching for wheaties.

    We went to a coin store in Pittsfield MA and the store owner was nice enough to let us spend 2 hours looking through all of her Indian Head cents to pick out 10 that he liked that also met my approval.

    Also 2 walking liberty halves.

    His father is also giving him a head start by buying him some books (Red Book) and I think I am ready to get him started on a CW subscription.

    He will be in New York Saturday August 3rd.

    I do not know if we will make the YN breakfast and auction, too early in the morning,
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
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