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How many of you earned a coin collecting merit badge?

291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I earned mine on June 29, 1962.
All glory is fleeting.
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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Boy Scouts merit badge for coin collecting.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I didn't do the boy scouts thing.
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  • ManorcourtmanManorcourtman Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I earned mine on June 29, 1962. >>



    Wow, you have quite a memory!! I never made it past Cub scouts!!
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I earned mine on June 29, 1962. >>



    Wow, you have quite a memory!! I never made it past Cub scouts!! >>



    No, not that good a memory. When you earned a merit badge you were given a card signed and dated by the scoutmaster. I still have mine.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    me
  • kmuhleskmuhles Posts: 22
    I earned mine too; although I don't have the exact date... (291fifth). The hard part was trying to find a merit badge counsler who knew as much about coins as I did. I think I ended up showing my counsler how to grade. This is a great way to introduce someone to the hobbie, and the merit badge book has some decent information.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I earned mine too; although I don't have the exact date... (291fifth). The hard part was trying to find a merit badge counsler who knew as much about coins as I did. I think I ended up showing my counsler how to grade. This is a great way to introduce someone to the hobbie, and the merit badge book has some decent information.

    image >>



    My merit badge counselor gave me a copy of COIN WORLD, the first time I had ever seen a coin periodical. I immediately subscribed. I also joined a coin club (The Club of Illinois Numismatists) at that time. The coin clubs of that era were very active. I learned a great deal from the other members.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • JulioJulio Posts: 2,501 ✭
    I tried to join the girl scouts, but they turned me down; just because I'm a man. What kind of reason is that? I'm thinking legal action. image.
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,064 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was the first one I got back in '78.
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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    summer of 1968
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  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭
    Earning a merit badge was what got me started collecting.

    Way too many years back to remember the date.

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  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    It was my first merit badge as well. I got it 7 years ago image
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think I got one, but may have lost it when I earned the Cig Rolling Badge ......image
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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yes sir
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    I give away money. I collect money.
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I never earned one but I have given a bunch of them out to boys that earned them.

    The requirements can be found here for those that are interested.
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  • Weather11amWeather11am Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭
    My 1st one also. I now have 30+!!!
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ya gotta watch those Brownies though...there always cookin up AT's............
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  • TACloughTAClough Posts: 1,598 ✭
    Got mine in 1972.
  • PreTurbPreTurb Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭
    yes... early 1980's... and my favorite merit badge on the way to Eagle
  • OHMoneyManOHMoneyMan Posts: 21
    I earned mine back in the sixties, and I have been a collector ever since. I remember one requirement for the merit badge was to put together a birth year set. As a youngster, I couldn't afford the 1955 Franklin, so I was allowed to substitute a 1954, instead. Since then I have purchased a nice 1955, but I still have that 1954, too.
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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    I can't remember the year, '69 or '70 I'd say, but I have one. I still have my sash with all my merit badges on it.

    I'm a packrat, what can I say.



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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    yes in the early 70's

    I am not an Eagle Scout

    I am still involved in Scouting

    26 years now

    Involved in Boyscouts, Venturing, Have my Woodbadge Beads
    Was awarded the Venturing Leadership Award in our Council

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  • mtnmanmtnman Posts: 571 ✭✭✭
    Received mine September 21, 1959. When I saw this thread I dug out
    my merit badge cards. A lot of good memories. Got my first merit badge
    in December of 1955 and received my Eagle award September 6, 1958.
    Boy I'm getting old.image
  • WhizzardWhizzard Posts: 955
    I did! I did! But I dont recall the date, sometime in the 70s.

    How do you guys remember that. You still have your manual? You know that thing is like two thousand pages now!!!!
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Got mne in March or April 1972. I had ulterior motives in geting mine. I had been interested in and studying coins for year but had no money so I couldn't collect. Well my parents were always pushing me to earn more merit badges, so I suggested the Coin Collecting badge. They said OK. Well one of the requirements was to mount and identify at least 50 coins from ten different countries. I got my father to help and I got HIM hooked on collecting the foreign coins. Now that I had him collecting,I now had a source of finances for MY collection. (And yes I planned it out ahead of time.)
  • JulioJulio Posts: 2,501 ✭
    Condor; "be prepared". Isn't that part of being a scout? Not sure as I can't remember the pledge.
    Quite a devious plan though. image, I'm proud of you. Have you been in recent consultation with my son?image. jws
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  • FlyfishguyFlyfishguy Posts: 333
    It was the first one I earned in December 1963.
  • InYHWHWeTrustInYHWHWeTrust Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭
    I did not. Did all the requirements but never had the nerve to check 'em off with the then-assigned counselor (long story.) I stayed in through Life rank, then moved on to other things. In the Marine Corps town of Jacksonville, NC, let's say our scoutmasters were REALLY focused on 'wilderness survival' during the Viet Nam war era. And I'm thankful for that part of the experience, one-sided as it was.

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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

    I did back in 1994 when I was 6. The second one I got : l
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>I did back in 1994 when I was 6. The second one I got : l >>


    How did you do that? You have to be 11 to be a boy scout. I believe the cub scouts has something now that you can do coin collecting to earn (They didn't when I was a cub scout), but they don't earn merit bages.

    In fact when I joined the cub scouts you had to be either 8 years old or in the third grade. I started school early when I was five so I joined the cub scouts when I was 7. At 6 you shouldn't have even been in the cub scouts.
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭
    It was so long ago, I don't remember, but I think so.
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  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,145 ✭✭✭✭

    I know this is a really old thread, but the merit badge is still around. My son has decided to work on and earn his coin collecting merit badge.

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  • johnny010johnny010 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did in 1994
    Good memory

  • bkzoopapabkzoopapa Posts: 178 ✭✭✭

    Got mine in 1957

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,818 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was a boy scout, eagle scout, and earned twice as many merit badges as were required for eagle. I'm no longer affiliated with the Boy Scouts for reasons we don't need to go into here.......

    I did not get the coin collecting merit badge. :o

  • DoubleDimeDoubleDime Posts: 634 ✭✭✭

    I earned it in December 1971 and it also got me started in collecting. I have also put together A type set of the different Coin Collecting Merit Badge Books starting with the first in 1938. I made Eagle Scout August 1973. A year later I joined the Marines.

  • mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,196 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I earned it, but was never awarded it because my scoutmaster set his own rules. He wouldn't allow anyone to be awarded a merit badge until they had first achieved "First Class". It was right around this time that I also discovered that he was dipping into our meager till and stealing from our dues and funds we earned through newspaper drives, etc. He was also involved in some other unsavory activities - never formally accused, but I know from personal experience that they were true. I left soon after...

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did :)

  • JWPJWP Posts: 23,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Iron man sometime in the early 1960's. I can't remember the date, but have all my Boy Scout badges in my dresser. 🤑🫡

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  • GoldminersGoldminers Posts: 4,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sometime in 1967 :)

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  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did in the mid-sixties. I think that is when I started collecting.

  • FloridafacelifterFloridafacelifter Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My first merit badge- on the way to becoming an Eagle Scout in 1980!

  • GooberGoober Posts: 980 ✭✭✭

    Was my first, summer of ‘81

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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Both of my sons did.
    I taught the class for our scout district for years.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I attained Eagle Scout back in the Fifties.... Pretty sure I worked on the coin collecting merit badge... just do not recall if that was one I had.... I have the cards still, will have to check. Still have the picture/news article of when my buddy and I were both awarded the Eagle rank. Cheers, RickO

  • rmpsrpmsrmpsrpms Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got mine in '76. That was a great time for coin collecting with the Bicentennial.

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Still working on it. Don't worry, I'll get there.

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  • calgolddivercalgolddiver Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1968 I believe ... my second merit badge ... my first was computers (first group in our state to get that one). I still have many of the coins initially collected for that badge. Looks good on an eagle photo also !!

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  • smuglrsmuglr Posts: 421 ✭✭✭✭


    I didn't remember that it was my first. We didn't get cards, but it is first on my sash.

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