selling the hobby

Zulan

My son is still in high school, and is in a US history class. He is taking one of my coins to school next week. They are getting on to WW1 in the class, and he is goind to take a british copy of the Goetz medallion of the sinking of the Lusitinia. It is a piece of history that they can touch and feel, and it makes history seem much more real. they think it is cool to actually see some of these things they are reading about.

It is a nifty piece of propoganda that may have hastened the American entry into WW1. If you want to know more check it out here.

Take some of your more "common" coins and share them with the kids. I find the ancients REALLY light them up. And it helps them connect to the history they are learning.

BowTieCoins

Katrina

MadMuffin

I completely agree with you. Working myself as a teacher, I find that coins can be used in multiple ways in the education. Besides that it is easier for the students to "connect" to an old coin and the story it has to tell than - for instance - an old piece of broken pottery.

Another thing is if you want to show the students something really old, a coin is the easiest thing to come by. The oldest thing that I use when I teach is not a coin, however. It's an Egyptian scarab that dates back from 2050 BC

Marcel

Askari

Of course, there's the side usually not presented in American and British history books: that the Lusitania was carrying 1,248 cases of 3-inch shells, 4,927 boxes of cartridges (1,000 rounds in each box), and 2,000 more cases of small-arms ammunition. Her manifests were falsified to hide this fact, and the British and American governments lied about the cargo.