Holiday Gifts

The_Dinosaur_Man

Does anyone else do coin related gifts for family and friends?

I have done a few different gifts for my family over the years, started with gold plated Ikes, then an Indian Head Cent 100 years before they were born, unc rolls of Lincoln cents from their birth years, and an 1831 Large Cent for each to honor my dad finding one when he was a kid.

This year I made year set albums for them.

OAKSTAR

ChangeInHistory

Those are nice, I hope they like them.
Other than maybe a silver round or so, no coin related gifts. There's just no interest in the family.

winesteven

I recently posted this in a different thread. These were my Holiday gifts for my top clients this year.

I enjoy art, and attend many local art shows. Each year for the past 20+ years, I pick out a Holiday gift for my top clients. They seem to enjoy them, although perhaps some of my clients are just being polite, lol. But it's something that is different for them every year, and is always "one of a kind", and signed by the artist. We include with each gift an "Artist's Statement" that shares on one page information about the artist, as well as the process the artist uses to create their art. Additionally, this allows me to do a little bit to help support individual artists, one each year. I remember during 2020 (the year of Covid) when I selected the artist to use, she literally cried as I let her know that I selected her for that year for my relatively large order of her artwork.

I'm posting this, since the art piece for this year is numismatic in nature.

The artist takes real rocks, and among other steps, drills a large pit through the top, epoxies a large zipper along the edges, and then epoxies in a large amount of coins. The end result is it looks exactly like a change purse, with a zipper, with coins bulging out.

Personally, I'm more excited about this years gift than the lovely art objects of past years. I hope my top clients will feel the same way.

Steve